Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say that taxes have been assessed too high and collected too rigidly.

Henry Knox
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  1. Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.
  2. We have arrived at that point of time in which we are forced to see our own humiliation, as a nation, and that a progression in this line cannot be a productive of happiness, private or public.
  3. That taxes may be the ostensible cause is true, but that they are the true cause is as far remote from truth as light from darkness.
  4. Every friend to the liberty of his country is bound to reflect, and step forward to prevent the dreadful consequences which shall result from a government of events.
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