![]() ![]() I look upon it as a new acquisition of property-a property which one month ago I did not value at a single shilling, and would with pleasure have seen it in flames. ![]() The few things which were left in it are all gone. I find it has been occupied by one of the doctors of a regiment very dirty, but no other damage has been done to it. Crane to go to our house and see what state it was in. Of this I am certain, that it is not founded upon that generous and Christian principle of doing to others as we would that others should do unto us.ĭo not you want to see Boston? I am fearful of the small-pox, or I should have been in before this time. I have sometimes been ready to think that the passion for liberty cannot be equally strong in the breasts of those who have been accustomed to deprive their fellow-creatures of theirs. I am willing to allow the colony great merit for having produced a Washington-but they have been shamefully duped by a Dunmore. Are not the gentry lords, and the common people vassals? Are they not like the uncivilized vassals Britain represents us to be? I hope their riflemen, who have shown themselves very savage and even blood-thirsty, are not a specimen of the generality of the people. I wish you would ever write me a letter half as long as I write you, and tell me, if you may, where your fleet are gone what sort of defense Virginia can make against our common enemy whether it is so situated as to make an able defense. ![]()
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