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Show " ( 15 ) '( I7 ) happinefs of their countrymen in particular) will not willingly aflbciate with thofe of loofer is Undoubtedly laudable, becaufe agreeable to the principles of jufiice and the rights principles, yet they will undoubtedly endea- of nature, yet the eitablifhment of Popery, vour to {top the career of that government, which is a very different thing from the to- whofe impolitic meafures are every day add-e leration of it, is, for very juf'c and Wife rea- ing numbers to the wretched mafs of the ig-e norant, the needy, and the profligate. fons, altogether incompatible with the fun-a To oppofe government with fuccefs, fuch I will, however, wave a fubjeét which muft hODCilZ individuals mull make ufe of the af-s fiftance of the multitude, and confequently, ever be an invidious one while there are fo many of us in communion with the Roman of good and bad citizens, of the rich and the church, and which is perhaps impertinent, poor, the'learned and the unlearned, of the wife and the foolifh, that is, of every man who becaufe it carries with it the appearance of a remote danger, while f0 many nearer mif- _ will co-operate with them in their defigns, whether he be led to fuch co-operation by the chiefs demand our prefent and our earne f't attention. HIIIIHIHII A" ,. W damental principles of our conflitution. 1 principle ofjuf'cice, by interefl, or by pafiion. Atlantic, my fellow citizens, you are {till to It is not the eftabliihment of the Pepi-{h religion in (erec, even to the exclufion of a toleration to the Proteflants except by fa- remember that it is part of the Britifh em- vour of the crown, and this at a time when . pire ; and that, though a toleration of all the tell, and other arbitrarydaets ref'rrainf- Though (Richer: is fituated beyond the ing the rights of confciencc, hang over the religions, where fuch indulgence can be ufed' with fafety to the welfare of the community, heads of our own Dii‘fenters, QfiWhiCh we is BOW |