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 county to exaperate the rage of party, and darken the upicions of ignorance, it is the duty of men like you, who have leiure for inquiry, to lead back the people to their honet labour; to tell them, that ubmiion is the duty of the ignorant, and content the virtue of the poor; that they have no kill in the art of government, nor any interet in the ditenions of the great; and when you meet with any, as ome there are, whoe undertandings are capable of conviction, it will become you to allay this foaming ebullition, by hewing them that they have as much happines as the condition of life will eaily receive, and that a government, of which an erroneous or unjut repreentation of Middleex is the greatet crime that interet can dicover, or malice can upbraid, is a government approaching nearer to perfection, than any that experience has known, or hitory related.