I should set forth simply, and without periphrasis, our grievances and our resolution to have justice.

I should tell them that we have long and ardently desired an honorable reconciliation, and that it has been refused.

I should add that we have conducted ourselves as faithful subjects, that the feeling of liberty is too strong in our hearts to let us ever submit to slavery, and that we are quite determined to burst every bond with an unjust and unnatural government, if our enslavement alone will satisfy a tyrant and his diabolical ministry.

And I should tell them all this not in covert terms, but in language as plain as the light of the sun at full noon." Many people still hesitated, from timidity, from foreseeing the sufferings which war would inevitably entail on America, from hereditary, faithful attachment to the mother-country.

"Gentlemen," had but lately been observed by Mr.Dickinson, deputy from Pennsylvania, at the reading of the scheme of a solemn declaration justifying the taking up of arms, "there is but one word in this paper of which I disapprove--Congress." "And as for me, Mr.President," said Mr.Harrison, rising, "there is but one word in this paper of which I approve--Congress." Deeds had become bolder than words.