By him! but, with your leave, my friends, we'll try, if we
can, to do without swearing. I say, it is enough to make a
man mad, to hear such ridiculous quibbles offered instead of
sound argument; but so it is, the piece I am writing against
contains nothing else.

When a man grows warm, he has a confounded itch for swear-
ing. I have been going, above twenty times, to rap out an
oath, by him that made me, but I have checked myself, with
this reflection, that it is rather unmannerly, to treat him that
made us with so much freedom.

Thus have I examined and confuted, all the cavils and ob-
jections, of any consequence, stated by this Farmer. I have on-
ly passed over such things, as are of little weight, the fallacy of
which will easily appear. I have shewn, that the congress have
neither " ignorantly misunderstood, carelesly negelected, nor
basely betrayed you ;" but that they have desired and recom-
mended the only effectual means to preseve your invaluable pri-
vileges. I have proved, that their measures cannot fail of suc-
cess; but will procure the most speedy relief for us. I have also
proved, that the farmers are the people who would suffer least,
should we be obligated to carry all our measures into execution.

Will you then, my friends, allow yourselves, to be duped by
this artful enemy? will you follow his advices, disregard the
authority of your congress, and bring ruin on yourselves and
posterity? will you act in such a manner as to deserve the hatred
and resentment of all the rest of America? I am sure you will
not. I should be sorry to think, any of my countrymen would
be so mean, so blind to their own interest, so lost to every ge-
nerous and manly feeling.

The sort of men I am opposing give you fair words, to per-
suade you to serve their own turns; but they think and speak
of you in common in a very disrespectful manner. I have heard
some of their party talk of you, as the most ignorant and mean-
spirited set of people in the world. They say, that you have
no sense of honour or generosity, that you don't care a farthing
about your country, childern or any body else, but yourselves;
and that you are so ignorant, as not to be able to look beyond
the present; so that if you can once be persuaded to believe the