On Monday, March 10, an unsigned letter circulated in the camp stating that it was time for officers to stop asking Congress for their back pay and to start demanding it. If they did not get satisfaction, it advised, they should consider rebelling. The nation, it claimed, “tramples upon your rights, disdains your Cries—& insults your distresses.” It called on the officers of the camp to “Awake—attend to your Situation & redress yourselves.”28
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