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Rh to thoe of other Men and keep their minds open to Conviction. We conceive; that in the preent Intance, by accommodating ourelves to each other, and individually yielding particular and even favorite Opinions of maller moment, to eential Principles, and Coniderations of general Utility, the public Opinion of the Plan now before you may be confolidated.—But without uch mutual Condecention in unimportant Matters, we may almot venture to predict, that we hall not oon, if ever, be bles’d with uch a Contitution as thoe are intitled to, who have truggled hard for Freedom and Independence. You will permit us on this Occaion, jut to hint to you our own Apprehenion, that there may be amongt us, ome Perons diaffected to that great Caue for which we are contending, who may be ecretly intructed by our common Enemy to divide and ditract us; in hopes of preventing our Union in any Form of Government whatever, and by this Means of depriving us of the mot honorable Tetimony, as well as the greatet Secutity of our Freedom and Independence.—If there be uch Men, it is our Widom to mark them, and guard ourelves againt their Deigns.