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I discovered that Colden had spent most of the preceding night with your daughter. His detention, therefore, candour would ascribe to the storm; but this letter, with such a conclusion as was too easily made, might fix a construction on it that no time could remove and innocence could never confute. I had not resolved in what way I should employ this letter, as I had eked it out, before Mr.
Colden, the lieutenant-governor, who acquired considerable odium by recommending to government the taxation of the colonies, the institution of hereditary Assemblies, and other Tory measures, seeing that a popular storm was rising, retired into the fort, taking with him the stamp papers, and garrisoned it with marines from a ship of war.
Colden strengthens Fort George in Alarm. Arrival of the Stamps. How the News was received by the Sons of Liberty. A Bold Placard. Stamp Distributor frightened. Patriotic Action of the Merchants. Public Demonstration against the Stamp Act. Colden takes Refuge in the Fort. Dare not fire on the People. The People at the Gate demand the Stamps. Colden and Lord Bute hung in Effigy.
I'm merely a spokesman a herald or a messenger, in whichever way you should choose to define me. Captain James Colden, a gallant young officer of Philadelphia, is our leader, but, in this instance, I don't feel the need of consulting him. I know that your offer is kindly, that it comes from a generous soul, but however much it may disappoint you I must decline it.
That I love Colden I will not deny, but I love his worth; his merits, real or imaginary, enrapture my soul. Ideal his virtues may be, but to me they are real, and the moment they cease to be so, that the illusion disappears, I cease to love him, or, at least, I will do all that is in my power to do. I will forbear all intercourse or correspondence with him, for his as well as my own sake.
Cadwallader D. Colden was pursuing his brilliant career, and might be found immersed in law at Number 59 Wall street.
Apart from the political interest of the trial, the eminence of the counsel employed would have commanded an audience anywhere. Never, since New York has had courts of justice, have so many distinguished lawyers adorned and dignified her bar as in the first twenty years of this century. Mr. Colden handed the Clerk a list of his witnesses, and requested him to call their names.
He was your brother, he said; I was Colden; I had pretensions to you, which your brother was entitled to know, to discuss, and to pronounce upon. Such, in about as many words, was his introduction to me, and he waited for my answer with much impatience. I was greatly confused by these sudden and unceremonious intimations.
"And they're not staying to meet us," said Colden. "I'm afraid, Will, it'll be some time before you have a chance to show your unbottled Quaker valor." "Perhaps not so long as you think," replied Wilton, who had plenty of penetration.
Thomson is an excellent young man: he loves Colden much, and describes the progress of his friend's opinions with every mark of regret. He even showed me letters that had passed between them, and in which every horrid and immoral tenet was defended by one and denied by the other. You may readily believe that I did not credit such things on slight evidence.
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