QUESTIONS FOR READING AND DISCUSSION
1. What actions by "partisans of liberty" did Leonard consider "treason," "rebellion," and "anarchy"? What consequences did these acts have, according to Leonard?
2. What did Leonard consider "our true state and real danger"? Why did Leonard believe that so many colonists disagreed with his loyalist views? What role did committees of correspondence play, according to Leonard?
3. Who did Leonard consider his "countrymen"? Who were the "men of property" and how did their views compare to Leonard's, according to him?
4. What differences distinguished the British Empire from the single "province" of Massachusetts or the colonies in North America? To what extent did Great Britain and the colonies share a common interest, according to Leonard?
5. Why did Leonard believe that "posterity" would consider the colonial independence movement "more disgraceful" than "witchcraft"?