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Excerpt from The Life of Thomas Hutchinson: Royal Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay Lessing once projected a series of papers to which he purposed to give the name Rettungen (rescues), his design being to vindicate from obloquy great men Of the past to whom harsh measure had been dealt out. It was a generous thought of a most just and coura geons mind, and deserves imitation in every age. The history of America, like that of every land, has its betes noires, characters remembered, for the most part, only to be execrated, some of whom certainly do not deserve their bad fame and of these there is no more pathetic example than Thomas Hutchinson, the last royal Governor of Massachusetts Bay before the futile effort of England to divide with the sword the perplex ities of the on - coming Revolution. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."