. The New England magazine . to any part of the thir-teen United States and there remaintwelve months, unmolested in their en-deavors to obtain the restitution of such THE LOYALISTS. 301 •of their estates and properties as mighthave been confiscated. Congress wasalso to recommend that the states have areconsideration and revision of all actsor laws regarding this matter, and thatthe estates, rights and properties of suchpersons should be restored to them, theyrefunding to any persons who might havegained possession, the bona fide pricewhich had been paid for the purchase ofthe properties in qu
. The New England magazine . to any part of the thir-teen United States and there remaintwelve months, unmolested in their en-deavors to obtain the restitution of such THE LOYALISTS. 301 •of their estates and properties as mighthave been confiscated. Congress wasalso to recommend that the states have areconsideration and revision of all actsor laws regarding this matter, and thatthe estates, rights and properties of suchpersons should be restored to them, theyrefunding to any persons who might havegained possession, the bona fide pricewhich had been paid for the purchase ofthe properties in question. It was also and they used it without regard to theterms of the treaty of peace or to thewishes of Congress. The failure of the treaty to provideeffectually for the safety of the Loyalistsrendered it necessary for the British gov-ernment to make arrangements for theirremoval from the independent violence of the feelings which ex-isted in reference to them may be judgedfrom the correspondence of Sir (niy. Some Ante-Revolutionary TO THE CURRIE GAGETOWN. agreed that there should be neither con-fiscations nor any prosecutions com-menced against any person by reason ofthe part he had taken in the war. Congress carried out its agreement,and passed a resolution recommendingthe states to conform to the terms of thetreaty. But this recommendation wasutterly disregarded, and some of theLoyalists who ventured into the UnitedStates to claim restitution of their estateswere imprisoned and banished. The•states had the power in their own hands Carleton in the early part of 1785. Thatgeneral, who held command in New Yorkat the close of the war, in a letter writtento Elias Boudinot of New Jersey says : The violence of the Americans, which brokeout soon after the cessation of hostilities, increasedthe numlier of their countrymen who looked tome for escape from threatened destruction; butthese terrors have of late been so considerablyaugmented, tha
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