05 Jul I do not belong, stated Mr. C., to your sch l which holds that aggression is to be met by concession.

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Mine is the creed that is opposite which teaches that encroachments must be met at the beginning, and that people whom act in the reverse concept will be ready to be slaves. In this full situation, in specific We hold concession or compromise to be fatal. If we concede an inches, concession would follow concession–compromise would follow compromise, until our ranks is therefore broken that effectual opposition will be impossible. We should meet up with the enemy in the frontier, with a determination that is fixed of our place at every hazard. Consent to receive these insulting petitions, and the next need will be that they may be deliberated and acted upon that they be referred to a committee in order. During the session that is last had been modestly asked to receive them, simply to lay them up for grabs, with no view to ulterior action. . . . Then I stated, that the next step would be to refer the petition to a committee, and I also currently see indications that such is now the intention.