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 the Cornih proclamation; becaue it is too wild for folly and too foolih for madnes. If we do not withhold our King and his Parliament from taxing them, they will cros the Atlantick and enlave us.

they will come they have not told us; perhaps they will take wing, and light upon our coats. When the cranes thus begin to flutter, it is time for pygmies to keep their eyes about them. The Great Orator oberves, that they will be very fit, after they have been taxed, to impoe chains upon us. If they are o fit as their friend decribes them, and o willing as they decribe themelves, let us increae our army, and double our militia.

has been of late a very general practice to talk of lavery among thoe who are etting at defiance every power that keeps the world in order. If the learned author