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If the foregoing remarks be just, then the friend 

 of rational freedom, and of social happiness, can- 

 not but contemplate with the utmost solicitude 

 the future influence of political journals on the 

 welfare of society. As they form one of the great 

 safeguards of free government, so they also form 

 one of its most threatening assailants: and unless 

 public opinion (the best remedy that can be ap- 

 plied) should administer an adequate correction 

 of the growing evil, we may anticipate the arrival 

 of that crisis in which we must yield either to an 

 abridgement of the liberty of the press, or to a 

 disruption of every social bond. 



with such a seasoning, as circumstances furnish. Of what kinj 

 these are, no one is ij^aorant. 



