forests were converted into well cultivated and fruitful fields. There we expected to spend our days in the enjoyment of all the rights and liberties bequeathed to us by the sufferings and blood of our noble ancestors. But alas! our expectations were vain. Two years had scarcely elapsed before we were unlawfully and unconstitutionally assaulted by an organized mob consisting of the highest officers in the both civil and military, who openly and boldly avowed their— determination in a written circular to drive us from said . As a specimen of their treasonable and cruel designs your honorable body are referred to said circular of which the following is but a short extract namely