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 land which you poes by uurpation, and to retore all that you have taken from us.

“ is the gift of Nature. No man is born the mater of another. Every Cornihman is a freeman, for we have never reigned the rights of humanity; and he only can be thought free, who is not governed but by his own conent.

“ may urge that the preent ytem of government has decended through many ages, and that we have a larger part in the repreentation of the kingdom, than any other county.

“ this is true, but it is neither cogent nor peruaive. We look to the original of things. Our union with the Englih counties was either compelled by force, or ettled by compact. “