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Excerpt from A Letter to a Leading Great Man, Concerning the Rights of the People to Petition, and the Reasonableness of Complying With Such Petitions
V with the Senl'e of the Nation, exprefs'd in this dutiful and precedented Way of Petitions.
This is their Confolation in the midfi of their Difirefs: Whereas, had you been one of the Parricides; or had you {har'd underhand in any of the Com. Mon Plunder had you (into been ad vane'd, to lheltcr any of the Guilty, or given any Reafon to fufpe�t it, thereby to prevent the publick Enquiry's taking Effefi; 'twould be a melancholly Con fideration to your Countrymen: And infiead of the prefent Pleafure they feel, in knowing to Wife, lo Honefi, (0 Un. Corrupt a Perfon as your (elf fills the Poll you enjoy; they would then fuffer all that Uneafinefs, which mufi follow from the contrary Re?eaion: Infiead of feeing you continued, with great Sa tisfaaion, in your prefent high Station; they would, foon, triumph over the Difgrace of One, who was an Enemy to his Country: For, a Guilty Great Man cannot long fupport himfelfamongft an Injured Free People. I am.
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