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may say every thing which his passion can suggest; he may employ all his time, and all his talents, if be is wicked enough to do so, in speaking against the government matters that are false, scandalous, and malicious; but he is admitted by the majority of
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aristocracy or monarchy: If he censures the measures of our government, and of every department and officer there-of, and ascribes the measures of the former, however salutary, and the conduct of the Matter, however upright, to the basest motives; even if he ascribes to them measures and acts which never had existence; thus violating at once, every principle of decency and truth.
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