Beadle's Dime Novels No. 115: The Sons of Liberty — page 61: what you’re looking at

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“ BREAKING OUT.” | 68 emblem of rebellion, Ride on, my brave lads, and gallant gentlemen. We will be at this festival. And as I hope to be saved, if Sampson Sammons dares to speak, or either of his vile sons, J will make them rue it to. their dying day. Ride on.” The sabers rattled, and the. horsemen went on at a trot. They found the Whigs collected about the liberty-pole, which they had not yet raised. The Whigs were unarmed, John- son and his men flourished here and there with pistols in their belts and swords at their thighs. Sir Guy Johnson, mounting the stoop of a large building, proceeded to address them. He spoke at sume length of the strength and power of the king, and the folly of any attempt on the part of the colonists to revolt against the crown. A single ship, he said, would be able to sink or capture all the navy that could, by any possi- bility, be set afloat by the colonies; while, on the: frontiers, with the Indians under his command, and his arms sustained by an almost uninterrupted chain of military posts, extending from the Gulf of St. Lawrence to the Mississippi, he would be invincible to any efforts. of the colonists. He denounced the agitators in the country in no measured terms, so that the blood of the Whigs boiled in their veins, Standing just in front of the orator was a stout young man, whose face had been growing more angry as Sir Guy proceeded. At last, apparently stung to fury, he struggled nearer the speaker, when he was restrained by a hand upon his arm. <A man in the prime of life stood beside him. “ Be quiet, Jacob. Nothing can be gained by breaking out,” “T will try, father,” replied the young man. “ But he may go. too far.” : The orator continued, and at length bepame so abusive that Jacob could bear it no longer. Shaking his brown hand on high at a peculiarly bitter invective, he shouted : “You are a Wiarand a villain / And that I tell you to your teeth, Sir Guy Johnson.” . , Johnson glared at the speaker for a moment in desperate anger, and then sprung down the steps and seized him by the throat. . “ You doubly-damned villain and traitor to your king, ” he shouted, “do you dare to give me the lie ?” CcoOmmiclOolkS.CcOin