Apevox: Blog & Dispatches

I am unwilling to stay you from your urgent affairs; yet give me leave, upon this special occasion, to speak a little more to this assembly. It may be of some good use, to inform and rectify the judgments of some of the people, and may prevent such distempers as have arisen amongst us.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      John Winthrop, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (1645) from remarks upon his impeachment for abuse of power