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 I - LETTERS OF JOHN ANDR1

Thai you may judge for yourself of the propriety of mj entering my protest against their conduct in that particular, have enclos'd you the Covenant, with many sensible remarks upon it, together with the two protests; y: latter of which (among y c . number of y respective rs, you'll observe, I have the honor to be one) is humourously call'd the TAtth Popt ; the declaration following it. (wherein our reasons for a dissent are given in a inure explicit manner than in the protest) should be glad you'd attend to. We don't mean to oppose any general measure thai maybe adopted by the Congress, but are well dispos'd in the cause of Freedom as any of our opponents, and would equally oppose and detest Tyranny exerciz'd either in England <>r America. For ray own part. I did ool expect the vote would have been put as it was ; u .. to censure and dismiss y* ( lommittee : but rather expected it would tend only to order them to suspend y". Covenant till y? Congress should meet. But the just resentmenl of the Addressers* on hearing the letters read that were senl to your place and New York (the latter in particular) in regard to thai part of their conduct, rais'd such warm emotions in their breasts, that nothing less than the committee's being annihilated would satisfy 'em. Our brother Eliot t display'd his eloquence in a long speech upon the subject, deliver'd in so masterly a stile and manner as to gain v' plaudits of perhaps the largest assembly ever conven'd hen', by an almost universal clap : wherein he deliver'd his sentiments with that freedom and manliness peculiar only to himself. He related his own particular case, as expecting a large quantity of goods which, should they arrive, he can't possibly qualify himself to sell according to the tenor of the Covenant, having countermanded 'em no other ways than to have "em shipped, provided your place, with New York. Rhode [sland, &c, should have their goods as usual: and from the determination of those places, he has all the reason in the world to expect them. My own case is somewhat similar to his, having countermanded my orders by the first opportunity after the Port Bill

��until the obnoxioi i re repealed; to buy no goo Is imported after August, 1771;

to break off all relations with those who should continue to import or buy such _ aud to discountenance, so far as might be, all who should not sign this covenant

• rhe Addressers were one hundred and twenty-three Bostonians, supporters of nor Hutchinson, who, i of May, 177 1. presented him with a "warm,

affectionate, and respectful" address, on occasion of his departure for England, hundred and twenty-nine citizens signed the protest against the proceedings of this town meeting of dune.

ton, whose wife was the sister of William Barrel! and of the \\ ife of John Andrews.

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