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NYP-F.781.010
31 May 1781:12 (217)
Extract of a letter from Bristol, Feb. 4. The spirit of
party is at present risen here to a height scarce ever known
before. Nothing but riots and tumults all the day, with
different mobs parading the streets, which, as they meet
each other, raise terrible disturbances, and encounter with
a fury more becoming nations at open and declared war, than
contending factions at an election. . . . May, to such a
pitch is the party arrived, that a friend of one of the
candidates actually proceeded to the place of poll, with
drums beating, and the American colours displayed. . .
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