LETTER FROM MISS CHARITY CLARK, 1769 17 



to the Publick in general. A plentitude of awful 

 sounds, rescinding and showing deference to Acts 

 of Parliament, will be heard on all sides. But I 

 flatter myself such sounds will never chill the 

 generous blood of my countrymen, but I hope they 

 will suffer all ills, even prefer the desperate 

 remedy of the Numantines of old rather than give 

 up a jot of their just rights and privileges, but 

 we are not reduced to this extremity, we have 

 a most extensive and fertile country to the 

 westward." 



' For my own part I should not hesitate one 

 moment to leave a plentiful and unincumbered 

 fortune, and travel over the bleak and rugged 

 Alleghanies, and there in the evening of my days, 

 and covered with the skins of beasts, with pleasure 

 survey the rising of a new Empire ; and what 

 may we not expect after seeing that Lord Hills- 

 borough has dared to write to that firebrand 



G r B d that the military is to be called 



in to the assistance of ye civil magistrate, by 

 which our brothers and fellow citizens of Boston 

 are to be sacrificed to the unrelenting vengeance 

 of that merciless Tyrant. Such cruel and un- 

 necessary indignities are enough to rouse up the 



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