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20 402 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. Cn. 18. and trying times that this Constitutional privilege be comes invaluable. Express your sentiments without fear, and let the sound of your disapprobation of this war be loud and deep. Let it be distinctly understood that in support of it your conformity to the requisitions of law will be the result of principle and not of choice. If your sons must be torn from you by conscription, con sign them to the care of God ; but let there be no volun teers excep...t for defensive war. " The people at once acted upon the recommenda tion to hold town-meetings and county conventions. Among the earliest was a meeting in Essex County, July 21, Timothy Pickering presiding, which adopted a declaration drawn by him, closing with his favorite proposal of a State Convention, to which the meeting chose delegates. This step a revival of the old dis union project of 1804 was received with general favor, and defeated only by the courageous opposition of Samuel Dexter, who, breaking away from his party associates, attacked the scheme so vigorously in Bos ton town-meeting, August 6 and 7, that though Har rison Gray Otis and other Federalists leaders gave it their public support, and though the motion it self was carried, the plan was abandoned.
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