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what news ? They informed us that they were run- 
ning about forty kegs of Jamaica fpirits (which by 
dafhing would have made at leaft eighty kegs) to 
the Nation ; and after having left the town three or 
four days, they were furprifed on the road in the 
evening, juft after they had come to camp, by a 
party of Creeks, who difcovering 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 
ikulis. 
How are we to account for their excellent policy 
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 effects of 
this torrent of evil, which has its fource in hell ° s and 
we know furely, as well as thefe favages, how to di- 
vert its courfe and fupprefs its inundations. Do we 
want wifdom and virtue ? let our youth then repair 
to the venerable councils of the Mufcogulges. 
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