" They, anxious to secure to themselves and their " posterity power and authority, and to engross some " offices or pensions from or under the Crown, have " made a sacrifice of all public virtue on the altar of " self-interest. This desperate spirit it was that in- '' duced these traitors or mercenary hirelings to exert " thrir influence to bring about the detestable meas- " urcs proposed by a certain paper handed about here

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" last Winter, entitled ' The Loyalist's Test.' l But, " happily for this Manor, this very dangerous scheme " was disconcerted by some lovers of Loyalty and " Liberty. For the men who would make such in- " roads on the liberties of the people, as they were " aiming at, to gratify their thirst for power, and give " Administration a high idea of their influence in this " Manor, would, from the same principle, exert every " nerve of influence to carry any ministerial mandate " into execution, at the expense of the liberties of " their fellow-countrymen.

" Can any judicious American son of liberty behold "these traitors of their Country without the .utmost " abhorrence, by whose influence the more illiterate " and those who are unacquainted with the principles *' of the present dispute, are so besotted as to resign " their liberties into the hands of the most ambitious " and designing fellows, who are aiming to make a " merit with the Ministry by enslaving their fellow- " countrymen, and to aggrandise themselves and " their posterity ? Surely he cannot. If Charles the " First deserved the axe, and James the Second the " loss of his Kingdom, for changing the Constitution, "' and thereby trampling on the rights of their subjects, I leave you, my Countrymen, to judge what ''punishment would be adequate to the crimes of " these loyalists and their tools, who are aiming at " the same by a sacrifice of all public virtue and the " liberty of their Country.