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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Leave from teaching responsibilities at New York University School of Law was provided by the Filomen D:Agostino Greenberg and Max E. Greenberg Faculty Research Fund at New York University School of Law, and by John Sexton, dean of New York University School of Law. As with the previous volumes in this Revolution-era series, the index was prepared by Carol B. Pearson of the Huntington Library. None of these books could have been completed without the splendid and professional assistance of the staffofthe Library ofthe New York University School of Law, especially the remarkable Carol Alpert, the magnificent Elizabeth Evans, the dedicated Leslie Rich, and the unique Jay Shuman. Cite and substance checking was done by Barbara Wilcie Kern of East Ninth Street. The "Historiographical Preface" is in many respects the work of Richard B. Bernstein of New York Law School. It was his extensive, demanding, and scholarly criticism, joined to that of Thomas Mackey of the University of Louisville, that forced two revisions until there was a product that had their approval. A special debt of gratitude is owed to Gretchen Feltes, the Conservation Librarian of the New York University School of Law. It was she who discovered and brought to my attention the important fact that it was on a visit to New York University School of Law that Franklin Pierce told the students of the School of Law that during the Revolutionary War the slogan of the New Hampshire loyalists must have been, "Be Slaves and Die." New York University School of Law 109 ...

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