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

3 " To do justiooeven to ivln-ls, let it here bo iiiomioiiod lliat * * * Nay, "so far wore tlioy fioiii iiitorforiiig with the law, that the .Magi.stratos " (-oiitiiiiiod in full po>«-ossioii of llio Civil poweiv and llio CoiirtH of Jiis- " tice wore open ill the usual manner until tlio lioclaratioii of liidopon- "deiice. In .Vpril Torin, 177('i, wvoral rohol tsoldiei-s were iiidiotod for "some Petty I.aiceniei<. trieil, convicted, and punisliod by ordiT of the "Court without any iiitorfeieiice of the Military; their Ollicoi-s at- " tended tin- trials, heaiil the evidoiiee, and upon their convii lion do- "clarod that ample jiistico wax done them, and thanked the Judge for " his candor and impartiality, during the course of the trials." -- Jones's lIMori/ «/Xiir r„rk tbiniuj Ihr liiiMiiUminnj ir.ii-, i,, i:i7.