at our command, to lay a foundation, that will now begin to to enable us to meet our pecuniary engagements, and no doubt in our minds, to the entire satisfaction of all those concerned, if they will but exercise a small degree of patience and stay a resort to coersive measures, thereby <​which would​> killing us in the germ, even before we can, (by reason of the season.) begin to bud and blossom, in order to bring forth a plentiful yield of fruit.