Charles Town 2d Janry [September] 1775 2
Sirー
I beg leave by your means to acquaint the Committee that as I have submitted to be their prisoner to avoid all possibility of giving them offence I have order'd those few arms I possess (which are only such as Gentlemen generally have to protect them from Insult) on board the Tamar.ー
If I have acted in this matter differently from any other Gentleman it does not proceed from the least wish to appear singular but from a persuasion that our bases are totally different.
I will not detain you any longer Sir on this very trifling subject, I shall only add that concessions which cannot be submitted to with honor, the Committee will I dare say think it below them to insist on.
I am Sir [&c.]
Alex: Innes
1. South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine, I, 194, 195.
2. This letter is misdated, or the transcriber for the magazine misread "Sepr" for "Janry." Innes fled on board the Tamer on Sept. 6, 1775, the day before the arrival of the Cherokee (see his letter of Oct. 15, 1775 to W Penman). This letter, therefore, was probably written a few days before his flight, or logically, Sept. 2.
