orphans; by our murdered fathers and mothers, brothers & sisters, wives and children; by the dread of immediate destruction, from secret combinations now forming for our overthrow; and by every endearing tie that binds men to men and renders life bearable, and that, too, for ought we know, for the last time, that you will lend your immediate aid to quell the violence of mobocracy and exert your influence to establish us a people in our civil and religious rights, where we now are, or in some part of the , or at some place remote therefrom, where we may colonize in peace and safety as soon as circumstances will permit.