Dear Mrs Warren
The very short livd pleasure your Visit
gave me hardly afforded me the opportunity of realizing that you
had actually been at
Cambridge. It would have made me very happy
if your domestic affairs could have made it Convenient to you to have
spent the time with me when Coll Warren was devoting his Services
for the good of his Country. However, amidst the mortification of
your departure I joyd in the fine weather you were
favord with -
hope you found your Family in an agreable
Situation.
As for News Coll
Warren will be able to give you
all that is stirring. I never was so Sensible of the Vast importance of
the present Crisis as when I see persons firm in the cause, the glorious
cause of Liberty, perplext &
embarassd in Sentiments as to what Israel
ought to do. Never was there more need of divine illumination.
The Day is Dark, Darkness that is sensibly felt by every one
who Seriously Considers Consequences that may follow one wrong
step. Firey Trials & rivers of blood are Scenes too horrid and
terrible to he ruminated on by the humanizing Souls of Americans
and be unappald by the dreadful Prospect. The
Iron hearted
Tools of despotism & Tyrannic Fury can sport themselves in the
more than infernal Consolation of hanging & stringing up & by
Slower degrees bringing on excruciating Famine & death on
thousands of their innocent Fellow Creatures without the Least
Commiseration. O what a pitch of Wicknedness & barbarism
But shant we form one ray of hope from that divine Benignity
which has been So Conspicuous towards N E from
its earliest
ages. That Infinite unceasing power will yet be engagd
for us
& in his own time extricate us out of our difficulties. Ought we not
to reason from former experience & analogy of Circumstances,
Confidently trusting thet Almighty Power, which were we to Challenge
Old & New England they would not find it easy to produce
one Instance In which it has faild us? May we yet
have
reason to Say, who is a God Like unto our God, Just and
True in all His ways? we were brought Low but he hath
helped us. Mr. Winthrop joyns me in best regards to you
Cambridge
October 27th 1774
[Endorsement]
Octr 27th 1774