James Warren A.L.S., Plymouth, Feb, 1st, 1789 : to Elbridge Gerry, Cambridge

James Warren A.L.S., Plymouth, Feb, 1st, 1789 : to Elbridge Gerry, Cambridge

Plymouth, [Mass.] 1789

[4] p. on 2 conjugate leaves ; 31 cm. (fol.)

MSS L1989.14.2

"It has been long very apparent that the design of the prevailing party was to 'hunt down all who were attached to Revolution principles.'"|"Hancock has been supported by a coincidence of strange circumstances, and lately by an influence that he should before now have suspected." John Hancock was at the time the governor of Massachusetts.|"I think an union of the old Whigg [sic] interest an object of very great importance. They may yet be strong enough to correct the prevailing sentiments, and to crush the influence of the Tories and that of the self created nobility which have become really intolerable to the feelings of the sensible and independent."|"I am perfectly of your opinion with regard to a seat in Congress. For the sake of the Country, I wish you may be a member, for your own I wish you may not be."|Quoted in its entirely in C. Harvey Gardiner. A Study in Dissent: the Warren-Gerry Correspondence, 1776-1792 (1968), pp. 212-214.|Page [3] is blank.|Watermark : LH|Purchased with funds provided by the Massachusetts Society.

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