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SCGCJ.775.027
11 Apr 1775:12 (489)
To the Associators of Cortland Manor [New York]. . . . [1
column, Patriot's response to political essay affirming
loyalty to George III, includes the following references] .
. . Yet these mens souls, dare attempt, with their syren
songs, to lull even virtue itself asleep, in hopes that she
may yet split on the rocks. . . [and near the end:]
Shakespeare makes Hamlet express himself thus; "But I am
pigeon livered, and lack gall to make oppression bitter."
Whether it is lack of gall, or the lack of sensibility, that
makes you callous to that bitter oppression that now
surrounds you, I will not determine; . . .
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