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 ¬became the obsequious satellites of the throne, whilst the clergy, who depended upon both, in- culcated submission. — Yet still, whilst the mul- titude felt no extreme changes in their condition, such a government could suffer no change; but when, from the causes I have brought before you, the defects of this system began to be grievously and universally felt, then was the time for the few to have been wise, and not to have waited for an infuriated multitude to break in upon them. — The impending ruin was so long visible before it came to its fatal crisis, that many wrongs and sufferings may be said to have been almost chargeable upon the victims. Such scenes of horror, though cast in my infancy into this new scene of existence, thanks to the Al- mighty! can never reach me here. — We have our faults and our follies, and we seem now and then so enflamed against one another, as if some mighty contest were approaching, but such sudden heats have no more power to subvert our constitution, than a common pimple upon the skin to destroy the body. — Our rights, our ¬pro- ¬