name to deceive you, and make you swallow the intoxicating
potion he has prepared for you. But I have a better opinion
of you than to think he will be able to succeed. I am persuad-
ed you love yourselves and childern better than to let any de-
signing men cheat you out of your liberty and property, to serve
their own purposes. You would be a disgrace to your ancestors,
and the bitterest enemies to yourselves and to your posterity, if
you did not act like men, in protesting and defending those
rights you have hitherto enjoyed.

I say, my friends, I do not address you in particular, be-
cause I have any greater connexion with you, than with other
people. I despise all false pretensions, and mean arts. Let
those have recourse to dissimulation and falsehood, who can't de-
fend their cause without it. 'Tis my maxim to let the plain
naked truth speak for itself ; and if men won't listen to it, 'tis
their own fault: they must be contented to suffer for it. I am
neither merchant, nor farmer. I address you, because I wish
well to my country, and of course to you, who are one chief sup-
port of it; and beacuse an attempt has been made to lead you
astray in particular. You are the men too who would lose most
should you be foolish enough to counteract the prudent measures
our worthy congress has taken for the presevation of our liber-
ties. Those, who advise you to do it, are not your friends, but
your greatest foes. They would have you made slaves, that they
may pamper themselves with the fruits of your honest labour.
'Tis the Farmer who is most oppressed in all countries where
slavery prevails.

You have seen how clearly I have proved, that a non-impor-
tation and non-exportation are the only peaceable means in our
power to save ourselves from the most dreadful state of slavery.
I have shewn there is not the least hope, to be placed in any
thing else. I have confuted all the principal cavils raised by
the pretended Farmer, and I hope, before I finish, to satisfy you,
that he has attempted to frighten you with the prospect of evils,
which never happen. This indeed I have, in a great mea-
sure, done already, by making appear the great probability, I
may almost say certainty, that our measures will procure us the
most speedy redress.

Are you willing then to be slaves without a single struggle?
Will you give up your freedom, or, which is the same thing,
will you resign all security for your life and property, rather