Thomas Hutchinson

Thomas Hutchinson

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Question 1     

Thomas Hutchinson describes many ordinary people as a frenzy and talk of dying in defense of their liberties through numerous printing and speaking. He considers it to be criminal; by him making such a statement, it implies that the actions carried out by people from various social classes can be regarded as unlawful rather than illegal in terms of their speech and publications (Hutchinson, 1884).  He characterizes the actions of people from different social classes to be unrealistic and absurd. In his letter, he claims that he has never thought of that in any colony, people of any considerations to be mad as to think of revolt. According to him, the actions carried out by these people does not make sense.

Besides, he considers people’s actions from various social classes to be negative as people’s actions have negatively affected the legislative powers. Also, the activities of the people have resulted in the loss of executive management. Moreover, he characterizes the people’s actions to be violent, where he says that he was apprehensive of violence from the mob. It is their last chance before the arrival of the troop. Apart from that, he considers their activities to be of vengeance and rebellious Besides. He characterizes people from different social classes to be vulnerable as they are easily influenced by ideas resulting in increasing numbers in terms of submitting to the government.

Question 3

The letters he wrote were supposed to be private, which implies that they talked ill about the government and had a lot of propaganda, indicating that the letters’ information was not correct. The primary aim of the letters was to cause chaos between the government and the colonist. Thomas Hutchinson’s publication was an incident that led to a rise in tension between the colonists and the British government. Also, the letter explained the revolts in the colony against taxes. He also recommended that the colonial government be independent of provincial assemblies and the reduction by degrees of English liberties. Another reason why his publications contributed to his disgrace and exile was that the letter recommended that the English send more troops to Massachusetts to keep the colonists quiet and be given harsh punishment. Also, the content in the publications were misleading letters, which mislead the parliament. The messages contained a lot of information about Hutchinson’s ideas about reorganizing the government, which was prohibited. The letters have a lot of content that had the aim of provoking hatred and envy among his peers, which was considered to be illegal and evil.

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