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has a freehold worth a guinea and a half a year, 

 though he pay no tax, and though he be not 

 enrolled in the militia, has a vote. Whoever 

 pays a tax, though he be not enrolled in the 

 militia, and have no freehold, has a vote. Who 

 ever is enrolled in the militia, though he have 

 no freehold and pay no tax, has a vote. So 

 that nothing but beggars, paupers, and crimi 

 nals, can easily be excluded ; and, you will 

 observe, if you please, Messieurs Borough- 

 mongers, that the State taxes are all direct, 

 and so contemptible in amount, as not to be, all 

 taken together, enough to satisfy the maw of a 

 single sinecure place-man in England ; and that 

 the Electors choose, and annually too, King, 

 Lords, and Commons. Now, mind, this change 

 has been deliberately made by the most delibe 

 rate people that ever lived on the earth. New 

 England is called, and truly, " the Land of 

 " Steady Habits;" but, a Connecticut man is 

 said to be a "full-blooded Yankey," and Yan- 

 key means New Englander. So that, here are 

 the steadiest of the steady adopting, after all their 

 usual deliberation and precaution, in a time of 

 profound tranquillity, and without any party 

 spirit or delusion, the plan of us " wild and 

 "mad" Reformers of Old England. Please 

 God, J will, before T go home, perform a pil 

 grimage into this State ! 



