...the people. The assembly unanimously resolved " That the tendency and design of the said letters was to overthrow the constitution of this government, and to introduce arbitrary power into the province." They also resolved "that a petition should be immediately sent to the King to remove...

...the people. The assembly unanimously resolved " That the tendency and design of the said letters was to overthrow the constitution of this government, and to introduce arbitrary power into the province." They also resolved " that a petition should be immediately sent to the King to remove...

...House of Representatives have lately had divers letters, signed Thomas Hutchinson, Andrew Oliver, etc., laid before them, attested copies of which you have...will receive with this enclosure, praying that his Excellency, Thomas Hutchinson, governor, and Andrew Oliver, lieutenantgovernor, of this province, be...

...House of Representatives have lately had divers letters, signed Thomas Hutchinson, Andrew Oliver, etc., laid before them, attested copies of which you have...into this province; and have passed sundry resolves perspirable matter retained, which being retained offends both by its quantity and quality; by quantity,...

...after consideration, adjudged by a vote of one hundred and one to five to be of tendency and design "to overthrow the constitution of this government, and to introduce arbitrary power into the province." June 1 6 1773 that, as copies of the letters were already abroad and had been publickly...

...it was resolved, without a dissenting voice, " that the tendency and design of the said letters, was to overthrow the constitution of this government, and to introduce arbitrary power into the province." At the same time it was voted, that a petition should be dispatched to the British monarch,...

...English liberties." The house quickly resolved that "the Tendency and Design of the Letters . . . was to overthrow the Constitution of this Government, and to introduce arbitrary Power into the province. ' ' Hutchinson's usefulness was at an end, and the deepest American suspicions of a secret...

...the correspondence. Hancock reported that the representatives had concluded the letters were designed "to overthrow the Constitution of this Government, and to introduce arbitrary Power into the Province." The House approved that statement by a vote of 101 to 5. A week later, as Hutchinson...

...which instantly resolved, by a vote of 101 to 5, that "the tendency and design of the letters . . . was to overthrow the constitution of this government and to introduce arbitrary power." A committee was named to draft a formal declaration, one even more scathing.4 Hutchinson was no tyrant...