...excepting from this act of grace Samuel Adams and John Hancock, whose offences, it was stilted, were " of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than that of condign punishment." The same proclamation announced the operation of martial law in Massachusetts as long as the unhappy...

...all who will return to loyalty with exception of Samuel Adams and John Hancock, " whose offences are of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than that of condign punishment." This is an honor many a patriot would gladly risk his life to receive, and only serves to strengthen the...

...as should lay down their arms, excepting only Samuel Adams and John Hancock, whose offences were " of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than that of condign punishment." On the I3th of June, the Committee of Safety at Cambridge received information that Gage proposed to...

...God-given rights of man. Though Governor Gage denounced him and Samuel Adams as guilty of offenses u of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than that of condign punishment," and, therefore, no pardon could be accorded to them, while it might be granted to every body else ;...

...all who will return to loyalty with exception of Samuel Adams and John Hancock, " whose offences are of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than that of condign punishment." This is an honor many a patriot would gladly risk his life to receive, and only serves to strengthen the...

...all who will return to loyalty with exception of Samuel Adams and John Hancock, " whose offences are of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than that of condign punishment." This is an honor many a patriot would gladly risk his life to receive, and only serves to strengthen the...

...subjects, excepting only from the benefit of such pardon, SAMUEL ADAMS and JOHN HANCOCK, whose offences are of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than that of condign punishment. And to the end that no person within the limits of this proffered mercy may plead ignorance of the...

...General Gage issued a pardon to all who had rebelled, except Hancock and Adams, whose offences were of "too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than condign punishment." Hancock was a member of the " Calkers' Club," from which, it is said, the word...

...1775, excepts from the general offer of pardon " Samuel Adams and John Hancock, whose offences are of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than that of condign punishment." And so, Mr. Speaker, it has come to pass that, in the centennial year, Massachusetts brings the first...

...subjects; exceptingonly from the benefit of such pardon SAMUEL ADAMS and JOHN HANCOCK, whose offences are of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than that of condign punishment" (Journal of the Provincial Congress, p. 331). The Boston Gazette (of June 24, 1775), with better wit...