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 mut be imputed the interruption of commerce, and the mieries of war, the orrow of thoe that hall be ruined, and the blood of thoe that hall fall.

the Americans have made it neceary to ubdue them, may they be ubdued with the leat injury poible to their perons and their poeions. When they are reduced to obedience, may that obedience be ecured by tricter laws and tronger obligations.

can be more noxious to ociety, than that erroneous clemency, which, when a rebellion is uppreed, exacts no forfeiture and etablihes no ecurities, but leaves the rebels in their former tate. Who would not try the experiment which promies advantage without expence? If rebels once obtain a victory, their wihes are accomplihed; if they are defeated, they uffer little, perhaps les than their conquerors; however often they play the game,