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and the thoughts of this fill my mind
and banish from it any other considerations
which the busy scene might suggest.
The great civil war after raging for
the past two years with such unparalleled
vehemence has at length reached a
most alarming crisis. It seems as if
everyone even the humblest like my-
self must take an active part in it
one way or the other, or do what I
have now undertaken to do, leave the
country. This important step to me has not
been arrived at without much consideration.
After debating for a long time upon the
advisibility of selecting Canada or
England as a place of refuge or
security from the storm I yielded to
solicitation of my father and mother
and chose the latter; and hence
it is thus I find myself this
beautiful July afternoon upon the
deck of the Plymouth Rock, bound
for London. Having at length made
up my mind, I was not long in

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