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myself, an unbeliever), to try Betty FisherV 

 conjuring, applied to her to have her fortune 

 told, passing herself on the woman as an 

 unmarried young lady. The fortune-teller 

 said she was married, told the number and 

 names of her children, as well as her own, &c. 

 The reason that those impositions and 

 insults are borne from people of such low 

 description is, in part, the judges' fault 5 

 not any want of sense : but it is the equali- 

 ty which America first set out with, that 

 all men are alike, except they steal, murder, 

 or commit an act of treason. There are 

 no other things thought offensive to the 

 subjects' right, or worthy punishment : and 

 even then, the courts are fearful to punish ; 

 pr, at least, they seem to be so. 



During the time I was in Philadelphia, 

 there were some men tried for refusing 

 to pay the land-tax, or sum usual on 

 taking up lands, a party of Dutchmen, 

 who had settled themselves in some distant 

 back part ; and, when called on for the 

 tax, they pleaded they had nothing to dp 

 mth any government, A distraint against 



