Excerpt from Fund Publicaion American public opinion, now so thoroughly aroused the Sons of Liberty of New York deter mined that, since Mr. Hood had, by his flight, deprived his country of that justice it had a right to demand of him - the resignation of an Office cal culated to enslave them - he should not evade that resignation while within their reach; they accord ingly forced him to resign his Office and to promise never to undertake the duty again. 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.