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plain of their fellow-fubjedis, but they want resolution, con- 
stancy, and perseverance themfelves : when they meet a 
repulse, they forget that it is an effential property of true cou- 
rage to rally their force s- 
But, madam, if you refolve to do fomething that fhall im- 
mortalize your name ; if, in confequence of any national mea- 
fure, fuch as I am now fuppofing, the laborious farmer, or in- 
duftrious manufacturer of your town or village, fhould be in 
any distress, lend them money; you will be repaid with am- 
ple intereft ; for if they are really laborious and industrious,. 
they will fet more hands to work, to enable themfelves, and 
thofe they employ, by the force of additional industry, ta 
pay their additional tax ; and when this extraordinary de- 
mand ceafes, if they do it not before, they will as certainly re- 
pay you. In the mean while you are confulting for the fecu- 
rity of your property, even for generations to come. Do not 
deceive yourfelf ; you mult fall or flourish with the ftate. 
5 Tis criminal to think of building trophies to vanity on the ruins 
of other mens fortunes ; nor in the iffue will you be able to do 
it. The money we borrow we muft pay : and you may eafily 
perceive that there is much greater danger of your being undone,. 
for want of power and energy in the date, than from any real, 
incapacity of individuals to fupport it.. 
Thofe who have common, fenfe mil ft fee this : thofe who are 
honeft will not hefitate to adt on juft principles : and thofe who 
have any love for their children, will aCl the part of tender pa- 
rents, and take proper meafures to fecure their pofleflions to them 
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