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Dedication.
your uninterrupted Union, your Submiſſion to the Laws, your Reſpect for the Miniſters of them, that your Preſervation depends. If there remain among you the ſmalleſt Seeds of Bitterneſs or Diſtruſt, make haſte to root them up as an accurſed Leaven, which ſooner or later would infallibly prove the Misfortune and Ruin of the Commonwealth. I conjure you all to retire to the bottom of your own Hearts, and there conſult the ſecret Voice of your own Conſciences. Is there a ſingle Man among you, who can point out, in the whole Univerſe, a more upright, a more wiſe and knowing, a more reſpectable Body of Men, than that
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