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It is a bad sign when a man holds communication
with the enemy — So any one would might
say, and with reason, who knew so much of the matter and no more.
But why a bad sign? Because it looks as
if the object of the communication were, the same
with that of the enemy, to do mischief to the
country — But where is the badness of the sign,
when no sooner do we know of the communication,
than we know the object & the sole purpose and the
object of it, and that object of it was noneither was
nor could be, any other than to save the country instead of injuring
it.
By how much would the country have been
the better, if instead of this volunteering himself seeking to prevent
the enemy from invading it, he had cautiously lain by
and for want of the advice intelligence in question, suffered
them to have carried their works projects into effect?
Which is the best subject, he who at the hazard
of every thing that is or ought to be done to a man, that or done to him, exerts himself reputation not
excepted
to save his country, and that in a way bidding
as fair as possible for efficacy, or him he who
for want of such exertions to let the
country take its chance? I know who is the knowing the danger
sitsstill by, and lets
prudent man of the two, taking selfishness and
nothing else into the account of prudence — I
know who in this sense is the more prudent man — the treatment
Mr Vaughan has met with shews it but too plainly — but
what I ask is — who is the most public spirited man, the most loyal subject?
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