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 have Virtue enough to acrifice all private Coniderations to the Publick Good?

By the Artifice of cunning and deigning Men, who have been to long, kept divided in Parties, and exaperated againt one another without Sene or Reaon, only to help them to climb, and be a Ladder for ambitious Knaves.

It is high Time for all thoe who have the ame Bowels for their Country, to join Hearts and Hands in its Deliverance, to forget and forgive part Diviions, to eek to redres Wrongs, not to revenge them, and to acrifice every other Paion to the general Welfare.

Let then no other Denomination be heard among us, no other Ditinction but that of good Brittons; let all who would merit that Name, unite, embrace, and take a Roman Reolution to ave their Country, or perih with it.

Brutus was a worn Enemy to Pompey, the Murderer of his Father; but when it happened that Rome mut perih, or Pompey be upported, Brutus became Pompey’s Friend.

Brutus took an Oath to Cæar, but Brutus never wore to be an Enemy to his Country. Brutus