We Shall be under the Domination of a Riotous Mob
Gouverneur Morris warns that New York’s resistance to the Coercive Acts risks mob rule, exposing class tensions beneath colonial unity and revolutionary politics.
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Gouverneur Morris warns that New York’s resistance to the Coercive Acts risks mob rule, exposing class tensions beneath colonial unity and revolutionary politics.
DEAR SIR: The states eastward of New York appear to be almost unanimous in favor of the new Constitution, (for I make no account of the dissension in Rhode Island.)
Gen. McDougall, Col. Brooks of the Massachusetts and Col. Ogden of the Jersey Line are now here with a Petition to Congress from the Army for Pay. The Army are