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A Serious Address (First Edition) - 12

might have done without?----Or pay Tithes, &c. to a Clergy, whom many of us do not choose to hear preach? Or why should you deprive yourselves of filling the Posts, you are otherwise qualified for, by vindicating a wronghead Mob?

THE Lower Sort of People are very imitative of their Superiors. —They watch their Motions, Looks and Eyes:—If therefore the more sensible Part of you would openly avow your Disappro­bation of these Measures, you will find this Rage and Clamour will soon subside; These People will disperse; they will crumble like the Dust, and disappear [at least in a hostile Manner] like the Snow that melted yesterday.

yours &c.
A PENSYLVANIAN.

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