L’Orient, March 11th, 1781. My Dear Hutchinson I wrote you from New Windsor and Boston, the former Express, the latter by Mr. Curry, which I hope you have received; but in case you should not, I just mention to you that they contain nothing material. — We sailed from Boston on Sunday evening Feb. 11th […]
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From the original letter at the American Philosophical Society. Jany. 10th 1781 M. Dear Sir I have put off the writing of this letter to the last minute lest I should be disappointed by any unexpected Circumstance in the journey and voyage I am undertaking — I received your very friendly and affectionate letter from
To Major-General Nathanael Greene January 10, 1781 Read Post »
From the original letter at the American Philosophical Society. Dear Sir Since writing the enclosed, a messenger arrived with a letter from you for Col. Laurens, who is gone to take leave — Col. Laurens in making out his arrangement of supplies as mentioned in my note to you wants some commercial information, and if
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PUBLIC GOOD from the original pamphlet at the University of Pittsburgh digital collection. PREFACE THE following pages are on a subject hitherto little understood but highly interesting to the United States. They contain an investigation of the claims of Virginia to the vacant western territory, and of the right of the United States to the
November 3rd, 1780. To the Honorable Members of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania November 3rd, 1780. GENTLEMEN : I informed the members of the last House by letter of the 14th of September, that, as it was my intention to collect materials for a history of the Revolution it would be impossible for me to
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The Crisis Extraordinary. from the original pamphlet, at Evans Early American Imprint Collection, University of Michigan. ON THE SUBJECT OF TAXATION IT IS impossible to sit down and think seriously on the affairs of America, but the original principles upon which she resisted, and the glow and ardor which they inspired, will occur like the
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From the original letter at the New-York Historical Society. Sept. 9th 1780 — Sir Last spring I mentioned to you a wish I had to take a passage for Europe and endeavor to get privately to England, you pointed out several difficulties in the way respecting my own safety which occasioned me to defer the
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THE CRISIS, No. IX. from the Pennsylvania Packet, June 13, 1780. HAD America pursued her advantages with half the spirit that she resisted her misfortunes, she would, before now, have been a conquering and a peaceful people; but lulled in the lap of soft tranquillity, she rested on her hopes, and adversity only has convulsed
From the original letter at the New-York Historical Society. Sunday Morning, June 4th 80 Sir I trouble you with a few thoughts on the present State of affairs. Every difficulty we are now in arises from an Empty Treasury and an exhausted Credit. These removed and the prospect would brighten. While the war was carried
To the Honorable Joseph Reed June 4, 1780 Read Post »
From the original letter at the New-York Historical Society. Sir As few are more interested and none better affected than yourself I write you a few thoughts on the state of our Public Affairs. Charles town is without doubt totally gone, and tho’ the fate of America does not depend upon it yet the loss
To Blair McClenaghan May, 1780 Read Post »
THE CRISIS. No. VIII. from the Pennsylvania Packet, February 26, 1780. Addressed to the People of ENGLAND, by the Author of COMMON SENSE. “TRUSTING, (says the king of England in his speech of November last) in the Divine Providence, and in the justice of my cause, I am firmly resolved to prosecute the war with
To the Printer of the PENNSYLVANIA PACKET. from Pennsylvania Packet, October 16, 1779. When passion and mistake give way to candor and benevolence, we sensibly forget the injury in contemplating the effect, and pay a reverence to virtue tho’ provoked into action by a fault. The late unfortunate affair of the fourth inst. will, to
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