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 is the country of which we have now poeion, and of which a numerous party pretends to wih that we had murdered thouands for the titular overeignty. To charge any men with uch madnes, approaches to an accuation defeated by its own incredibility. As they have been long accumulating falehoods, it is poible that they are now only adding another to the heap, and that they do not mean all that they profes. But of this faction what evil may not be credited? They have hitherto hewn no virtue, and very little wit, beyond that michievous cunning for which it is held by Hale that children may be hanged.

war is the lat of remedies, cuncta prius tentanda, all lawful expedients mut be ued to avoid it. As war is the extremity of evil, it is urely the duty of thoe whoe tation intruts them with the care of nations, to avert it from their charge. There