The declaration that our People are hostile to a government made by themselves, for themselves, and conducted by themselves, is an insult.

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address to the citizens of Westmoreland Co., Virginia. Answered July 11, 1798. See also Thomas Cooper, Some information respecting America (1794). In Report of a Meeting of the Mass. Historical Society by Samuel A. Green (May 9, 1901)

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