But I beg of you '' not to be now deceived, nor prevailed on to bring " ruin and slavery on your country and posterity, by " tasting of that detestable herb, which hath already " been the cause of so much confusion. But if you " will not be entreated, but will persist in using it " you will find your case similar to that of Eve, she " lost her innocence, and plunged all her descendants " into everlasting misery ; you will lose liberty, and " plunge your descendants into everlasting slavery. "The Farmer too, complains bitterly about not " transporting sheep. I wish to God, the congress " had let us send away our black sheep; for then per- " haps this pretended Farmer, might have been trans- " ported before he could have made such a bleating.

" Now I would beg leave to say a few words on his " clamour against our delegates. He calls them trait- " ors, which name, he had much better have taken " on himself, where it might have been applied " with propriety. I cannot see any room for this vil- " est of mankind, to insinuate, that those men would " attempt to betray their country. Besides their un- " spotted characters, are they not men of extensive " interests in America? have they estate in any other "country? No, what then should induce them to " betray America, seeing that if America falls they " must fall with it ? This consideration alone, is suf- || ficient to clear them from our Farmer's aspersion. " But in my opinion, a still stronger security for their " integrity and faithful discharge of the trust reposed " in them, is, the unblemished character they have