Essentials of United States history . s revolutionmust come. The peoplewere slow to consider seri-ously that thej^ nuist breakfrom the mother wanted to be loyal sub-jects of the king. JamesOtis, Sanuiel Adams, andJoseph Hawley in Massachu-setts, and Patrick Homy ofMrginia, were probably thefirst men to see clearly thatthere was no solution to the])roblem but Hawley wrote: Afterall, we must fight. Wlien these words were read in thehearing of Patrick Henry, he exclaimed, I am of that mansopinion. George Washington himself now reahzed thatparchment measures would
Essentials of United States history . s revolutionmust come. The peoplewere slow to consider seri-ously that thej^ nuist breakfrom the mother wanted to be loyal sub-jects of the king. JamesOtis, Sanuiel Adams, andJoseph Hawley in Massachu-setts, and Patrick Homy ofMrginia, were probably thefirst men to see clearly thatthere was no solution to the])roblem but Hawley wrote: Afterall, we must fight. Wlien these words were read in thehearing of Patrick Henry, he exclaimed, I am of that mansopinion. George Washington himself now reahzed thatparchment measures would be useless.^ A pamphlet, written by Thomas Paine, called Common Sense, wasissued early in the year 1776 with the approval of Benjamin Franklin andSamuel Adams. It boldly asserted that the Americans ought to separate en-tirely from Great Britain, and set up a government of their own. This pro-duction was read everywhere. It is said that over copies were did much to make the Revolution possible and to hasten its Patrick Hexky THE COLONIES ALIENATED 113 126. Leslie at Salem. — General Gage was made governor ofMassachusetts and was ordered to Boston with four regimentsof British regulars to awe the people into submission. Earlyin 1775 Gage assumed the aggressive. He heard that powderand cannon were secreted at Salem, and sent Colonel Lesliewith three hundred sol-diers to capture any mili-tary stores to be foundthere. On Sunday morn-ing, February 26, 1775,Leslie sailed out of Bostonharbor and arrived atMarblehead about object of the expedi-tion was at once suspectedby the patriots of Marble-head, and Major JohnPedrick mounted hishorse and rode to Salemto warn the people. Di-vine service was beingheld in the severalchurches, but when MajorPedrick announced theapproach of the soldiers,the congregations were instantly dismissed. It had been reported to the English that Colonel DavidMason was mounting beyond the North River some old can-non captured f
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