...employing influence to appease the present tumults in Massachusetts. I know not where that influcnce is to be found, or, if attainable, that it would be...will be secured, or let us know the worst at once. There is a call for decision. Know precisely what the insurgents aim at. If they have real grievances,...

...to appease the present tumults in Massachusetts. I know not where that influence is to be founder, if attainable, that it would be a proper remedy for...properties will be secured, or let us know the worst at INSURRECTION IN MASSACHUSETTS. 523 once. There is a call for decision. Know precisely what the insurgents...

...scanned the situation more closely than the father of his country, and in writing to Col. Lee he said: "Let us have a government by which our lives, liberties and properties will be secure, or let us know the worst at once. There is a call for decision. Know precisely what the insurgents...

...Henry Lee in Congress, who had addressed several letters to him on the subject, Washington writes : " You talk, my good sir, of employing influence to appease...and properties will be secured, or let us know the woist at ar»ce. There is a call for decision. Know preci sely what the insurgents aim at. If they...

...You talk, my good sir, of employing influence to appease the general tumults in Massachusetts. . . . Influence is not government. Let us have a Government...will be secured, or let us know the worst at once. Under these impressions, my humble opinion is that there is a call for decision." In November he writes,...

..."You talk, my good sir, of employing influence to appease the present tumults in Massachusetts. * * * Influence is not government. Let us have a government...will be secured, or let us know the worst at once." l The weakness of the Confederation, especially in its relation to the revenue, had been early seen...

...proper remedy for the disorders. Influence is not gocTrnment. Let us have a government by which onr lives, liberties and properties will be secured, or let us know the worst at once. There is a call for decision. Know precisely what the insurgents aim at. If they have real grievances,...

...replied at last : " You tell me, my good Sir, of employing influence to appease the present troubles in Massachusetts. I know not where that influence...will be secured, or let us know the worst at once. There is a call for decision. Know precisely what the insurgents aim at. If they have real grievances,...

...Henry Lee in Congress, who had addressed several letters to him on the subject, Washington writes : " You talk, my good sir, of employing influence to appease...proper.ties will be secured, or let us know the worst el once. There is a call for decision. Know precisely what the insurgents aim at. If they have nal...

...founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal and fallacious ! " " Let us have," he adds, " a government by which our lives, liberties, and properties...will be secured, or let us know the worst at once ! " "I hoped," said Washington, as he turned his face to Mount Vernon, " to spend the remainder of...