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 or enforcing diputable rights of little importance.

may therefore be afely pronounced, that thoe men are no Patriots, who when the national honour was vindicated in the fight of Europe, and the Spaniards having invaded what they call their own, had hrunk to a diavowal of their attempt and a relaxation of their claim, would till have have intigated us to a war for a bleak and barren pot in the Magellanic ocean, of which no ue could be made unles it were a place of exile for the hypocrites of patriotim.

let it not be forgotten, that by the howling violence of patriotic rage, the nation was for a time exaperated to uch madnes, that for a barren rock, under a tormy ky, we might have now been fighting and dying, had not our