Extract of a Letter from E. Boudinot Esqr President of Congress to B Franklin dated June 10—83

You will receive herewith a number of our newspapers, in which are inserted many resolves, associations &c from all Parts of the Country, which I earnestly wish had not been made; but the Truth is, that the Cruelties, Ravages and Barbarities of the Refugees and Loyalists have left the People so sore that it is not yet time for them to exercise their good sense and cooler Judgement, and this cannot take place while the Inhabitants of New York are kept out of their City, and despoiled daily of their Property by the sending off their Negroes by hundreds in the Face of the Treaty. It has been exceedingly ill Judged of the British to retain NewYork so long, and to persist in sending away the Negroes, as it has irritated the Citizens of America to an alarming degree I am &c