Introduction PART ONE: EMERGENCE 1. "A life of care & anxiety" 2. "I propose to continue in business" 3. "Perfidious and deserving of annihilation" 4. "The melancholy state of the North American commerce"" PART TWO: POLARIZATION 5. "May we not . rely on your suspending your trade with Great Britain?" 6. "Know ye, we despise you" 7.

"In wars the longest purse must chiefly determine the event" 8. "Extremely unanimous, spirited, zealous and determined" PART THREE: REVOLUTION 9. "The prospect of interest or some reward" 10. "The proper time for America to make her bargain" 11. "They will have blood for blood" 12. "The opulent merchants of this city" 13. "The loss of our independence is impossible"" 14. "A flagitious contempt of moral obligations" PART FOUR: COUNTERREVOLUTION 15.

"Vanity, luxury, drunkenness and debauchery" 16. "The adventurous pursuits of commerce" 17. "A pathless wilderness" 18. "The great men are going to get all we have" PART FIVE: EXPLOSION 19. "To make new loans on advantageous terms" 20: "One continued scene of parties upon parties" 21. "The temptations of momentary exigencies" 22. "The rage of gambling in the stocks" 23. "The deepest regret" 24.

"Such prominent marks of prosperity" 25. "An immense quantity of land" 26. "I can never do things small; I must either be a man or a mouse" 27. "My domestic happiness has vanished" 28. ""We all tremble about the magnitude of the American account" 29. "He could not articulate" 30. "At that dread hour" EpilogueIntroduction PART ONE: EMERGENCE 1. "A life of care & anxiety" 2.

"I propose to continue in business" 3. "Perfidious and deserving of annihilation" 4. "The melancholy state of the North American commerce"" PART TWO: POLARIZATION 5. "May we not . rely on your suspending your trade with Great Britain?" 6. "Know ye, we despise you" 7. "In wars the longest purse must chiefly determine the event" 8. "Extremely unanimous, spirited, zealous and determined"