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Our Committee of Inspection have proceeded to very unwarrantable lengths; they ordered summonses to be served on several persons who had not been altogether complaisant enough to the mandates of the Congress. One of the Committee-men demanded of a loyal Constitutionalist: "What, do you drink Tea? Take care what you do, Mr˙
Extract of a Letter from New-Haven, to Mr. Rivington, New-York, Dated April 1, 1775
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C˙, for you are to know the Committee command the mob, and can in an instant let them loose upon any man who opposes their decrees, and complete his destruction." But upon his damning the King, the spirit of the gallant Royalist grew impatient, and he opened a battery of execrations upon Committees and Congresses of all denominations. This, of course, occasioned his being ordered before the whole Sanhedrim, where he is to be interrogated after the manner of the Spanish and Portugal inquisitions. To this complexion is American liberty, through the influence of the King-killing Republicans, already arrived. But the culprit is true game, and will prove as tough a sapling as ever these big wigs have tried their strength upon. If these choose to carry matters to extremity, now is the time to repel force by force, in defence of the constitutional liberty of the Colony; and be the strength of the disaffected what it may, the lives and fortunes of many in this Country will be freely hazarded in defence of King George the Third, and the laws of his Realm.