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HERE are two Causes, essentially distinct, though often interwoven, by which a free State may perish. These are, external and internal Violence: Invasions from Abroad, or Dissentions at Home: The Rage of foreign War, or domestic Faction.

After a dangerous and exhausting War, Victory hath at length restored Peace to our bleeding Country. But in vain the