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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 52: (search)
ere we shall land. Thos. Hutchinson to Col. Williams, Boston, 23 Feb. 1774. God will bring us into a safe harbor, said Hawley. Communicated to me by the late Jonathan Dwight, Senior, of Springfield, a contemporary of Hawley. Anarchy itself, repeated one to another, is better than tyranny. Hutchinson to Col. Williams. The proposal for a General Congress was deferred to the next June; but the Committees of Correspondence were to prepare the way for it. Hutchinson to Dartmouth, 23 March. A circular letter explained why Massachusetts had been under the Chap. LII.} 1774. March necessity of proceeding so far of itself, and entreated for its future guidance the benefit of the councils of the whole country. The firmness was contagious. Hancock, on the fifth of March, spoke to a crowded audience in Boston: Permit me to suggest a general Congress of deputies from the several Houses of Assembly on the Continent, as the most effectual method of establishing a union for the sec