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a moment he was persuaded to believe, might reheve them from 

 some of their pressing .difficulties, and extinguish the flame. This 

 measure gave pain to some of his best friends. But the views of the 

 leaders in the insurrection, and their secret abettors, went further 

 than their professions, and it became necessary to oppose their 

 progress with force. The majority of his council were found 

 ready to support him, in the most efficient measures. Money, the 

 sinews of war, was wanting — the treasury was empty — but by a 

 meritorious exertion of the merchants, and other gentlemen of 

 property, in which Mr, Bowdoin himself set an honorable ex- 

 ample, ample funds were immediately provided. The militia 

 was called forth, and a gentleman put at their head, whose pru- 

 dence and abilities, as well as courage, had been often proved. 

 By his spirited exertions, and those of the officers and militia un- 

 der his command, difficulties apparently insurmountable were 

 overcome. By rapid marches, in the most inclement season, over 

 mountains of snow, almost as difficult to pass as the Alps to the 

 General of Carthage^ the insurgents and their leaders were pan- 

 ic struck, and fled with precipitancy; and, without the efl'usion 

 of blood, the rebeUion was crushed, and peace and safety restor- 

 ed to the state. The general orders issued by the Governor, shew 

 at once his firmness and circumspection, and his tender concern 

 for the lives and rights not only of the innocent and less blame- 

 able citizens, but even of those in an high def-ree criminal. 



When we take a retrospective view of this scene, and find such 

 numbers of people, who had so recently been united in resisting 

 the dangers of tyranny ; who appeared to understand 50 well the 



rights of mankind, and the boundaries of civil liberty which 



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