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 that state in which they may with equal facility be impelled or moulded to good or evil, that I would look for the true springs of that salutary fountain, which is to restore and invigorate the purity and energy of the British Constitution.

And here let me ask most seriously, is there a man who would have possessed sufficient hardihood, in such an assembly, and under such circumstances, to venture on proposing an amendment, an abridgment, or an alteration of those resolutions, which it had pleased these self-elected leaders to frame as the substance of their political creed?

Mistake me not as censuring those resolutions which actually were agreed upon; they contain a series of incontrovertible facts, and just and logical deductions, which it is impossible to refute, or even,