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 ale and venion in vain, and a borough has been compelled to ee its dearet interet in the hands of him whom it did not trut, yet the general tate of the nation has continued the ame. The un has rien, and the corn has grown, and whatever talk has been of the danger of property, yet he that ploughed the field commonly reaped it, and he that built a houe was mailer of the door: the vexation excited by injutice uffered, or uppoed to be uffered, by any private man, or ingle community, was local and temporary, it neither pread far, nor lated long.

nation looked on with little care, becaue there did not eem to be much danger. The conequence of mall irregularities was not felt, and we had not yet learned to be terrified by very ditant enemies.

quiet and ecurity are now at an end. Our vigilance is quickened, and our