Memoir of the Life of Richard Henry Lee - And His Correspondence With the Most Distinguished Men in America and Europe, Illustrative for Their Characters, and of the Events of the American Revolution #221068

I did not mean by the words, to get rid of importunity, to cast the smallest reflection; indeed the hurry with which I am obliged to write the few private letters I attempt, will not allow me to consider the force and tendency of my words; nor should I have been surprised, if the fact had really been so, if I am to judge of their, I mean foreigners' applications to Congress, by those to myself for it is not one, nor twen ty explanations, that will satisfy the cravings of these peo» ple's demands.