About the same time a similar plot was discovered in the neighbourhood of Albany; and there too, executions were found necessary.
Hitherto, the sole avowed object of the war had been a redress of grievances.

The utmost horror had been expressed at the idea of attempting independence; and the most anxious desire of re-establishing the union which had so long subsisted between the two countries on its ancient principles, was openly and generally declared.

But however sincere these declarations might have been at the commencement of the conflict, the operation of hostilities was infallible.

To profess allegiance and respect for a monarch with whom they were at open war, was an absurdity too great to be long continued.

The human mind, when it receives a strong impulse, does not, like projectiles, stop at the point to which the force originally applied may have been calculated to carry it.