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 hope to rob in the tumults of a conflagration, and tos brands among a rabble paively combutible. Thoe who wrote the Addres, though they have hown no great extent or profundity of mind, are yet probably wier than to believe it: but they have been taught by ome mater of michief, how to put in motion the engine of political electricity; to attract by the ounds of Liberty and Property, to repel by thoe of Popery and Slavery; and to give the great troke by the name of Boton.

ubordinate communities oppoe the decrees of the general legilature with defiance thus audacious, and malignity thus acrimonious, nothing remains but to conquer or to yield; to allow their claim of independence, or to reduce them by force to ubmiion and allegiance.

might be hoped, that no Englihman could be found, whom the menaces of