Daniel Leonard published these letters in the Massachusetts Gazette, in which, under the pen name of Massachusettensis, he argued the case for submission to the crown and warned of the dangers of rebellion. These letters constitute one of the ablest statements of the Loyalist case by an American. John Adams has reacted to this publication in an article which he signed as Novanglus. The links in the text go to the quotations by John Adams and how he tried to refute them.