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what news ? They informed us that they were 
running about forty kegs of Jamaica fpirits 
(which by dafhing would have made at lead 
eighty kegs) to the Nation ; and after having 
left the town three or four days, they were fur-- 
prifed on the road in the evening, juft after they 
had come to camp, by a party of Creeks, who 
difeovering their fpecies of merchandize, they 
forthwith ftruck their tomahawks into every keg, 
giving the liquor to the thirfty fand, not tailing 
a drop of it themfelves ; and they had enough to 
do to keep the tomahawks from their own fkulls. 
How are we to account for their excellent po- 
licy in civil government ; it cannot derive its 
influence from coercive laws, for they have no 
fuch artificial fyftem. Divine wifdom dictates 
and they obey. 
We fee and know full well the direful effetfts 
of this torrent of evil, which has its fource in hell; 
and we know furely, as well as thele favages, how 
to divert its courfe and fupprefs its inundations. 
Do we want wifdom and virtue ? let our youth 
then repair to the venerable councils of the Muf- 
£ogulges ? 
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