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7682. RUTLEDGE (Edward), Appeal to,—

Would to God yourself, General Pinckney
and Major Pinckney, would come forward and aid us with your efforts. You are all known,
respected, wished for; but you refuse yourselves
to everything. What is to become of us
if the vine and the fig tree withdraw, and leave
us to the bramble and the thorn?—
To Edward Rutledge. Washington ed. iii, 285. Ford ed., v, 376.
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