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12 Thus I have led your thoughts to that upon which I formed my conclusion, that the design of this ceremony was decent, wise and honorable. Make the bloody 5th of March the Æra of the resurrection of your birthrights, which have been murdered by the very strength that nursed them in their infancy. I had an eye solely to parliamentary supremacy; and I hope you will think every other view beneath your notice in our present most alarming situation.

Chatham, Cambden and others, gods among men, and the Farmer, whom you have addressed as the friend of Americans, and the common benefactor of mankind; all these have owned that England has right to exercise every power over us, but that of taking money out of our pockets without our consent. Tho' it seems almost too bold therefore in us to say "we doubt in every single instance