Otis' Letters in Defence of the Hartford Convention and the People of Massachusetts (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from Otis' Letters in Defence of the Hartford Convention and the People of Massachusetts

IN presenting to the public this collection of mr. Orls' letters upon the Hartford Convention, we do him no more than justice in declaring our conviction that he has amply redeemed his promi ses. He has demonstrated not merely the moral, but the physical impossibility of a secret combi nation, so often charged on that assembly; and though obliged to refer to facts and events which transpired during the war, he has forborne reviving topics of controversy, and has provided an armour for the defence of the honor of the State, which even his political opponents need not be backward to put on. Expectation too may be entertained that the brow beaten and calculating friends of the primitive plan of the Convention, (if any such there be) who have kept aloof and borne with exemplary fortitude censures inflicted on their agents, will no longer be ashamed or afraid to put in a word, though a com mendable prudence may forbid their taking up a Cudgel in behalf of their old Forlorn Hope.

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