I have seen without despondency, even for a moment, the hours which America has styled its gloomy ones, but I have beheld no day since the commencement of hostilities that I thought our liberties in such imminent danger as at present.
Beck shares Washington's feelings of alarm regarding the state of American liberties during a tumultuous time.
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