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d ready money, his books and manuscripts, and at daybreak left his house a ruin. The coming morning, the citizens of Boston, in town-meeting, expressed their detestation of these violent proceedings, and pledged themselves to one another to suppress the like disorders for the future. I had rather lose my hand, said Mayhew, than encourage such outrages; and Samuel Adams agreed with him; but they, and nearly all the townsmen, and the whole continent, applauded the proceedings of the fourteenth of August; and the elm, beneath which the people had on that day assembled, was solemnly named the Tree of Liberty. The officers of the crown were terror-stricken. Hutchinson to R. Jackson, 30 Aug. 1765. The Attorney-General did not dare to sleep in his own house, nor two nights together in the same place; and for ten days could not be got sight of. Several chap. XVI.} 1765. Aug. persons who thought themselves obnoxious, left their houses and removed their goods. Hutchinson fled to the