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MEETING OF THE FREEMEN OF BALTIMORE. 145
one general committee, and that the gentlemen appointed for this city immediately correspond with Baltimore Town, and other parts of this province, to effect such association as
will best secure American liberty.
In communicating these resolutions to the Baltimore committee, they
addressed them on the 26th of May, the following letter:
"To Messrs. Samuel Purviance, Jr., Wm. Buchanan, Andrew Buchanan, and the other
gentlemen who compose the committee of Correspondence in Baltimore town.
" We feel the most sensible pleasure in the receipt of your letter, by the hands of Mr.
Alexander. Nothing can be plainer than that the suffering of Boston is in the general
cause of America, and that union and mutual confidence is the basis on which our
common liberties can only be supported. We enclose you a copy of a letter wrote to
Virginia, and of the resolutions passed yesterday in our town meeting. It appears to us
that much depends on the determinations of Virginia, which we shall anxiously expect.
Unanimity in the Massachusetts, New York, Maryland, Virginia and South Carolina,
which may reasonably be expected, bids fair for success. We cheerfully accept your
invitation to a free intercourse, and shall most gladly harmonize with you in all possible
measures for the general good."
The Baltimore committee of correspondence also received a reply dated
29th of May, from the town of Alexandria, in .which they remark—
" That following the good example you had shewm' us, we called a meeting of the
principal inhabitants of this town, who determined upon the choice of a committee for
carrying on such correspondence as we judged necessary for conveying our sentiments to
the neighboring towns."
Letters expressing the same sentiments were also received, enclosing resolutions adopted by the people of Norfolk and Portsmouth, the former town
deeming the communication fuom Baltimore of so much importance as to
transmit a copy of it to the citizens of Charleston accompanied with a letter,
in which they say:
" The occasion is too serious to admit of apologies for this unsolicited communication
of our sentiments to you, at this alarming crisis to American freedom ; for the time is
come, the unhappy era is arrived, when the closest union among ourselves, and the firmest
confidence in each other, are our only securities for those rights, which as men, and free
men, we derive from nature and the constitution."1
The people of Baltimore who met at the court-house on the 25th of May,
again assembled on the 31st, and adopted the following patriotic resolutions
in favor of forming an association in relation to imports and exports to be
agreed upon in general congress, and of cutting off all dealings with the
parties who would not come into the plan.
" Resolved, That it is the opinion of this meeting, that the town of Boston is now suffering in the common cause of America, and that it is the duty of every colony in America
to unite in the most effectual means to obtain a repeal of the late act of parliament for
blocking up the harbor of Boston. That it is the opinion of this meeting, that if the
colonies come into a joint resolution to stop importations from, and exportations to, Great
Britain and the West Indies, until the act of blocking up the harbor of Boston be
V R. Purviance, A Narrative of Events which Occurred in Baltimore Town during the Revolution,
p. 12, etc. <•
10—v. ii
| Title | History of Maryland - 2 |
| Creator | Scharf, J. Thomas (John Thomas) |
| Publisher | J. B. Piet |
| Place of Publication | Baltimore |
| Date | 1879 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000172 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | MEETING OF THE FREEMEN OF BALTIMORE. 145 one general committee, and that the gentlemen appointed for this city immediately correspond with Baltimore Town, and other parts of this province, to effect such association as will best secure American liberty. In communicating these resolutions to the Baltimore committee, they addressed them on the 26th of May, the following letter: "To Messrs. Samuel Purviance, Jr., Wm. Buchanan, Andrew Buchanan, and the other gentlemen who compose the committee of Correspondence in Baltimore town. " We feel the most sensible pleasure in the receipt of your letter, by the hands of Mr. Alexander. Nothing can be plainer than that the suffering of Boston is in the general cause of America, and that union and mutual confidence is the basis on which our common liberties can only be supported. We enclose you a copy of a letter wrote to Virginia, and of the resolutions passed yesterday in our town meeting. It appears to us that much depends on the determinations of Virginia, which we shall anxiously expect. Unanimity in the Massachusetts, New York, Maryland, Virginia and South Carolina, which may reasonably be expected, bids fair for success. We cheerfully accept your invitation to a free intercourse, and shall most gladly harmonize with you in all possible measures for the general good." The Baltimore committee of correspondence also received a reply dated 29th of May, from the town of Alexandria, in .which they remark— " That following the good example you had shewm' us, we called a meeting of the principal inhabitants of this town, who determined upon the choice of a committee for carrying on such correspondence as we judged necessary for conveying our sentiments to the neighboring towns." Letters expressing the same sentiments were also received, enclosing resolutions adopted by the people of Norfolk and Portsmouth, the former town deeming the communication fuom Baltimore of so much importance as to transmit a copy of it to the citizens of Charleston accompanied with a letter, in which they say: " The occasion is too serious to admit of apologies for this unsolicited communication of our sentiments to you, at this alarming crisis to American freedom ; for the time is come, the unhappy era is arrived, when the closest union among ourselves, and the firmest confidence in each other, are our only securities for those rights, which as men, and free men, we derive from nature and the constitution."1 The people of Baltimore who met at the court-house on the 25th of May, again assembled on the 31st, and adopted the following patriotic resolutions in favor of forming an association in relation to imports and exports to be agreed upon in general congress, and of cutting off all dealings with the parties who would not come into the plan. " Resolved, That it is the opinion of this meeting, that the town of Boston is now suffering in the common cause of America, and that it is the duty of every colony in America to unite in the most effectual means to obtain a repeal of the late act of parliament for blocking up the harbor of Boston. That it is the opinion of this meeting, that if the colonies come into a joint resolution to stop importations from, and exportations to, Great Britain and the West Indies, until the act of blocking up the harbor of Boston be V R. Purviance, A Narrative of Events which Occurred in Baltimore Town during the Revolution, p. 12, etc. <• 10—v. ii |
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