The future happiness or misery of a great proportion of the human race is at stake—and if we make a wrong choice, ourselves and our posterity must be wretched. Wrong choice! There can be but one choice consistent with the character of a people possessing the least degree of reason. And that is to separate—to separate from that people who from a total dissolution of virtue among them must be our enemies—an event which I de[v]outly pray may soon take place; and let it be as soon as may be.
General Greene has his finger on the pulse of the nation and nails the situation fully. It is so terribly similar to our current state of Government and society. The Democrats of this country 2024 are so similar to Loyalists of 1776 it pains me to witness
