Against those unoffending farmers -- as their accusers have shown, they were nothing else -- with a malignant zeal which betrayed its selfish, puritanic origin, the writer of that letter prayed that they should be arrested; that their properties, real and personal, should be seized, and cscheiited, and conliscateil ; that" costs" should be paid, therefrom, into the willing hands of those who shoulil have thus invaded their individual Rights -- Rights which had been guaranteed to each of them, by the Constitution and the Laws of the land -- that their homes should be violated and destroyed ; that their families should be made beggars, and be cast penniless on the world; and that, excc[)t among those who thus sought warrants to become local ilcspots, nothing else than individual and domestic misery and general devastation and ruin should be aimed at and obtained. Can anything more atrocious be conceived? Can those who could calmly and deliberately devise such outrages, to be inflicted on a peacel'ul community, and that community their own immediate neighbors and townsmen, be regarded as anything else than monstrosities, in human form, in which only the baser and most brutal i)assions had fouiul places? But, after all, these -- the letter andtlie [lassions which had iiispireil it and the hand which had written it -- were only the legitimate outcome of the barl^arous propositions which John Jiiy and CJouverneur Morris and their partisan associates, taking tidvantage of a short period of i)eculiar anxiety and of labors of more than usual variety and importance, hail letl the jaded and almost exhausted Provincial Congress, it may