The Source of the Evil, or the System Displayed: Addressed to the Gentry, Yeomanry, Freeholders, and Electors of England and Ireland; In Four Letters (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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Very free nation, that has been {tripped of its li' berties, point out to them as the molt likely to in fure fuccefs - uto wean you from your friends; to make youjealous and miflruflfulof every man, who embraces your ~interefis, or in {whpmry'oua bah/e atany'time plaéed iyour confidencei to iiiim duce you to throw yourfelves under the protection of your difguifed enemies, and become like the {beep in the fable, which fuflfered themfelves to be perfuaded that the dogs,' their trufiy guardians, had betrayed them, and that the wolves were theii heft friends, and f0 became an eafy prey,'and were devoured by their deceivers. The induftry with which they praétife thefe Arts, it is not necewary to point out to you. Their agents are employed night and day in fpreading t eir mifreprefentatior'is through every quarter. Of the country, and Canvafling for addreffes, wher~ ever they 'are'certain thofe mifreprefentation's can Bert efcap'e deteé'tion. The lye of their emifl'aries in the city is e'choed throug'h every town and cor poration in the kingdom, and,' as is the nature of all lyes, the further itgoes from its fource,'the moreit affumes the appearance of truth, and the more credit it 'gains. Edefign, therefore, of thefe Letters, is to counteract the fatal confequences which mifc'on ceptton on your parts, and an ignorance of the real {late of the queflion, which now fills every h'onefi man With fears and alarms, might produce. I be feech you then, to Iiflen to the truth, while you can profitby it; you may open your eyes to it when it is'too late. A {cries offafls, and fuch oh Tervations as naturally Aarife from them, is whatl 1mean to lay before you - DI am one of yourfelves, and can have no interei't tn your being deceived.

Thel s' l The Real Qxygflioni' to be propofedj'o you for your delr beration, are, t.

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