7069. PROSCRIPTION vs. JUST TRIAL.—
To fill up the measure of irritation,
a proscription of individuals has been substituted
in the room of just trial. Can it be believed
that a grateful people will suffer those to
be consigned to execution whose sole crime has
been the developing and asserting their rights?
Had the Parliament possessed the power of reflection,
they would have avoided a measure as
impotent, as it was inflammatory.—
To Dr. William Small. Washington ed. i, 199.
Ford ed., i, 454.
(May. 1775)
