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more frequent, the electors may eaſily provide a ſecond choice.
All this he may ſay, but not half of this will be heard; his opponents will ſtun him and themſelves with a confuſed ſound of penſion and places, venality and corruption, oppreſſion and invaſion, ſlavery and ruin.
Outcries like theſe, uttered by malignity, and ecchoed by folly; general accuſations of indeterminate wickedneſs; and obſcure hints of impoſſible deſigns, diſperſed among thoſe that do not know their meaning, by thoſe that know them to be falſe, have diſpoſed part of the nation, though but a ſmall part, to peſter the court with ridiculous petitions.
The progreſs of a petition is well known. An ejected placeman goes down to his county or his borough, tells his
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