A history of the American people . rn; issued a call thence to theother colonies for a general Congress; and directedthat a convention, freely chosen by the voters of thecolony as they themselves had been, should assemblethere, in that same room of the Raleigh, on the firstday of August following, to take final measures withregard to Virginias part in the common action hopedlor in the autumn. The next evening they gave aball in honor of Lady Dunmore and her daughters,in all good temper, as they had previously arrangedto do,—as if nothing had happened, and as if to showhow little what they had
A history of the American people . rn; issued a call thence to theother colonies for a general Congress; and directedthat a convention, freely chosen by the voters of thecolony as they themselves had been, should assemblethere, in that same room of the Raleigh, on the firstday of August following, to take final measures withregard to Virginias part in the common action hopedlor in the autumn. The next evening they gave aball in honor of Lady Dunmore and her daughters,in all good temper, as they had previously arrangedto do,—as if nothing had happened, and as if to showhow little what they had done was with them a matterof personal feeling or private intrigue, how much amatter of dispassionate duty. They had not actedsingularly or alone. Rhode Island, New York, andMassachusetts herself had also asked for a generalCongress of Committees. The Massachusetts as-sembly had locked its doors against the governors H)2 ^&~~<6S*^^i uf^-C, & &yy! ^ <J^J ~<U) h *k» 1*J /t*~f ( ) J own JcUwns lrtwtUx*^\.
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