July 24, 1775: A Leaked Letter From Someone Who Knows Better

Even when it’s Mike’s voice you hear on the episode, it’s Claude who takes the blame for the episode titles. It wasn’t a bad thing for members of the Continental Congress to disagree, but some level of decorum was still expected from those members. And almost certainly, one of the commandments was Thou Shalt Not Trash Talk Thy Fellow Delegate. (I may have softened the language a little bit, there.) Still, Adams had a right to express whatever frustration he had with John Dickinson, unfortunately the letter in which he did it got intercepted by the British and publicly published; the mere suggestion that there was some dissention among the ranks of a group that typically presented its work as a united front was certainly a Big Deal. And it certainly didn’t grease the skids between Adams and Dickinson, nor was that rift ever truly healed. The post July 24, 1775: A Leaked Letter From Someone Who Knows Better appeared first on 250 and Counting.