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 for my ditant Fellow Citizens, I hould have addreed them from the bottom of my Heart, and, as near as poible, in the following Expreions.

My dear Fellow Citizens, or, to peak more properly, my dear Brethren, ince the Ties of Blood unite us no les than a common Subjection to the ame Laws, I find infinite Pleaure in not being able to think of you, without thinking at the ame time of all the Bleings you enjoy, and of whoe Value there is not one among you, perhaps, more enible, than I to whom they are lot. The more I reflect on your political and civil