Personal Recollections of the American Revolution a Private Journal Prepared F
Personal Recollections of the American Revolution a Private Journal Prepared F
Lydia Minturn Post
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Besides, how dost thou think it would seem to my parents and to Friends, that I should contract an engagement with one who holds it no wrong to lift up sword against his fellow-man *? " "Edith, do not set down against me that in which I had no control. Am I to be blamed for being bred to the profession of arms, that I am become the instrument of power to suppress the rebel colonies ? The members of your Society are generally supposed 114 American Revolution. 1778 to be on the side of the Mother... Coun try. " "It is true, " said Edith, "they are called Tories, but unjustly, as they espouse neither cause. From their great princi ple, Resist not evil, and submission to the powers that be, they are opposed to the rising of the people against the Mother Country. " (Her father, I have a strong suspi cion, wishes, though very cautious, suc cess to the cause of freedom. ) Captain Morton said, " You surely, Edith, wish to see the rebellion quelled, and order and quiet restored ? " "I desire peace most fervently; but you, our brethren, have oppressed us wrongfully, trodden upon our rights, and domineered over us until patience hath had her perfect work, and seemeth to be no longer a virtue.
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