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 author of the Reflections on Learning has rightly oberved, that no man ever could give law to language, it will be vain to prohibit the ue of the word lavery; but I could wih it more dicreetly uttered; it is driven at one time too hard into our ears by the loud hurricane of Pennylvanian eloquence, and at another glides too cold into our hearts by the oft conveyance of a female patriot bewailing the mieries of her friends and fellow-citizens.

has been the progres of edition, that thoe who a few years ago diputed only our right of laying taxes, now quetion the validity of every act of legilation. They conider themelves as emancipated from obedience, and as being no longer the ubjects of the Britih Crown. They leave us no choice but of yielding or conquering, of reigning our dominion, or maintaining it by force.