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 more frequent, the electors may eaily provide a econd choice.

this he may ay, but not half of this will be heard; his opponents will tun him and themelves with a confued ound of penion and places, venality and corruption, oppreion and invaion, lavery and ruin.

like thee, uttered by malignity, and ecchoedechoed [sic] by folly; general accuations of indeterminate wickednes; and obcure hints of impoible deigns, dipered among thoe that do not know their meaning, by thoe that know them to be fale, have dipoed part of the nation, though but a mall part, to peter the court with ridiculous petitions.

progres of a petition is well known. An ejected placeman goes down to his county or his borough, tells his friends