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tue which is infeparable from the true love of liberty ; or, I 
think, indeed, we must bid a long farewell to all our glory. 
And fince the licentiousness which waits on peace, creates 
real diftrefs : if diftrefs alone can awaken our minds to a fenfe 
of duty, war may be of fervice to us, in this light, for one may 
eafily imagine it will be attended with accumulated calamities. 
If a fondnefs for what is called pleasure ; if the gratifications 
of our passions continue to allure us from our duty, or deter 
us from even attempting to fupport the ftate upon any other 
principles than thofe of vile corruption, I folemnly believe fome 
great evil will befall us : I think it cannot be avoided. Are 
we afraid to amend what we all fee to be wrong, tho’ all of 
us do not difcover it in the fame degree ? is not this inviting 
our ruin, for fear it fhould come unasked ?• — Fame is but the 
breath of talkers ; thofe who hope for immortality in a being 
fuperior to this, can with no propriety be much concerned whe- 
ther they are mentioned after death or not : and we are fure 
fuch men will be anxious for nothing, fo much as to difcharge 
their duty to god and their country : but heaven has ordained 
that the applaufe of our fellow-creatures fhould be fome part 
of the food of virtue in this transitory ftate : and as the love 
of our country, whilft any fenfe of it remains, will render us 
amiable in the fight of each other; the want of fuch love muft 
render us deteftable ; efpecially when we feel the bad effedts of 
it. Now, who wears in his breaft the heart of a man, or loves 
his fellow-creatures? Who dares face death rather than give 
up the caufe of liberty and his country ; or abandon his honor, 
whenever his office, or his conscience, calls on him to defend 
Yy 2 it? 
