Author: Mucius Scaevola, a pseudonym of Joseph Warren Date: January 2, 1772 “To T—– H———, Esq. Sir, Notwithstanding your apparent ascendency over the reprehensive power of any body politic in this community, I cannot esteem myself fairly acquitted of my duty without giving you a little share of wholesome admonition, in common with the rest […]
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Date: June 1774 Author: Attributed by a contemporary to Miss Mercy Scollay; Mercy Otis Warren the likely author “Sir, I was lately in a Company, where the conversation turned to the non-consumption agreement, and the vast importance of resolving not to purchase any thing but the necessities of life; in order to defeat the present […]
