It was a short-sighted policy, also, even among those who were in rebellion, which inflicted penalties, especially such penalties as these, on those persons who continued, peacefully, on their respective farms, quietly pursuing their daily labors, honestly respecting the Laws of the country, and consistently recognizing and honoring the Sovereignty of the King, whom even those who were in rebellion quite as fully recognized, as their undoubted Sovereign ; and these, for no other reason than for disrespectful words, concerning the several Committees and Congresses, and for the utterance of questions concerning their respective authorities. It was a reasonable consequence, under existing circumstances, we repeat, that quiet men should become excited and excitable men angry, and that all should become alarmed and indignant, when a mere handful of their neighbors, without their " consent" and without the slightest warrant of Law and without the slightest necessity, usurped and maintained such unheard-of authority as was created in these enactments; and it was equally reasonable, under the circumstances which then existed, that there should be neighborly consultations and neighborhood organizations, as well as personal efforts, for the support and protection of

The names of those who were arrested and imprisoned, which are named in the text, were copied from a single Petition for relief, (Historical Manuscripts, etc.: Petitions, xxxiii., 108); but there were many others. The names of.those farmers, in Salem, whose Farms, Stock, Tools, Crops, Household Furniture, etc., were thus seized and Bold, were taken from the same Historical Manuscripts, etc. : Miscellaneous Papers, xxxv. 307, in which the properties aro mentioned, in detail.