"Depend on it, we know better than to repeal our masculine systems. Although they are in full force, you know they are little more than theory. We dar not exert our power in its full latitude. We are obliged to go fair and softly, and, in practice, you know we are the subjects.

"We have only the name of masters, and rather than give up this, which would completely subject is to the despotism of petticoat, I hope General Washington and all our brave heroes would fight."

April 15, 1776