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"Now many memories make solicitous

The delicate love lines of herfro of things reotten call to us"

Joanna's wedding occurred at the beginning of the winter and the winter

festivities But, a, there was

a political anxiety and excitely every social

and doress had passed the three

resolutions which proved to be the key-note of resistance and of

liberty Joris had emphatically indorsed its action The odious Stamp

Act was to be met by the refusal of Aoods, or to sell them upon commission, until it was repealed

Ho the first three race to wear silk or satin or broadcloth; and a

great fair was opened for the sale of articles of home manufacture The

Government kept its hand upon the sword The people were divided into

two parties, bitterly antagonistic to each other The "Sons of Liberty"

were keeping guard over the pole which sygering and boasting and openly insulting

patriots on the streets; and the "New York Gazette," in fla to the utreat public interests had in every fa the two hundred New York merchants who

put their naress; Bram was a

conspicuous h

conscientiously with the people's party, was very sensible of the