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planting Catholicism and its then concomitant
servitude on one side of the Ledger, and because the Book of
liberty was growing too vigorous independence was on the other, could scarcely fail
to see or to be pleased at seeing the consequence
of their sowing the seeds of dissention in order to keep up an
impenetrable hedge between the military and the
people. In this mischief making policy is as distant
from true wisdom as from generosity and
virtue: it is doing the Devils work for him.
Of a price with the policy of maintaining war
between that people class of the people that wears
a red coat and the rest is the of war keeping
the line of separation as strong as possible between
the military and the people, is the policy or rather
the no-policy of all distinction
between the military, and the scum dregs of the
people: the taking of common criminals with
their characters blasted and their offences unexpiated,
and incorporating them kneading them without destruction into
the mass of the soldiery. I say no policy for
I do to my eyes it does not seem so much the
result of design good or bad as of negligence carelessness, &
narrow views shortsightedness and the want of moral feeling.
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