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purtunt pniut — local infliieinx'. Voii will remetuhcr that in my 

 last Address I alluded to some dangers that may, in my opinion, 

 beset a Society like oiirs. As one of the chief of these I hinted 

 at the possibility that such a Society might be made use of for 

 the purpose of securing local notoriety and advertisement. You 

 have chosen as my successor a gentleman above suspicion in this 

 respect — he is already one of the most notorious men in this 

 district — and I look upon the possession by him of that local 

 influence in which I acknowledge myself deficient, as of happy 

 augury for our future weliare. 



