That taxes may be the ostensible cause is true, but that they are the true cause is as far remote from truth as light from darkness.

For God's sake, take care of your men. If they fire, they die!

Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion against reason, the principle of all government, and against the very name of liberty.

That taxes may be the ostensible cause is true, but that they are the true cause is as far remote from truth as light from darkness.

We imagined that the mildness of our government and the wishes of the people were so correspondent that we were not as other nations, requiring brutal force to support the laws.

Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say that taxes have been assessed too high and collected too rigidly.

Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.