The Anti Federalists

"We expected too  much from the return of peace, and of course we have been disappointed."

Richard Henry Lee was an American statesman from Virginia best known for the motion in the Second Continental Congress calling for the colonies' independence from Great Britain. He was a signatory to the Articles of Confederation and his famous resolution of June 1776 led to the United States Declaration of Independence  which Lee signed. In this quote from "Letter from Samuel Adams to Richard Henry Lee, Lee was referring to the war once faught a time prior to. There was a lot of confusion, as well as a rise of credit. Once peace is restored in a place or in a situation, one would hope that there will not be another uprise of commotion or unstability. But there was again, and Lee expressed the disappointment. It just seems like when one problem is has ended, another has begun. That is that way it has always been in American history.