I am by no means fond of inflammatory measures. I detest them. I should be sorry that anything should be done which might justly displease our sovereign or our mother country. But a firm, modest exertion of a free spirit should never be wanting on public occasions. It appears to me that it would have been suffi cient for the assembly to have ordered our agents to represent to the King's ministers their sense of the suspending act and to pray for its repeal.
Small things grow great by concord.
The Boston Chronicle, December 21, 1767.