One of the results, however, of this happy unanimity on the desirable consequences of the civil war and revolution that began in 1775 is that the chief losers—the American Loyalists—have fared badly at the hands of historians.
I shall next give you a Sketch of some of Mr. Samuel Adam^s Features; & I do not know how to delineate them stronger, than by the Observation made by a celebrated Painter in America, vizt. "That if he wished to draw the Picture of the Devil, that he would get Sam Adams to sit for him:" & indeed, a very ordinary Physiognomist would, at a transient View of his Countenance, develope the Malignity of his Heart.