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IG.782.071
5 Oct 1782:22 (29)
The Lancaster Farmer, No. 2. To the People of Pennsylvania.
"It is a bad sign when men become callous to news-paper
accusations." --"It is a proof that "they have offended
beyond the sense of shame."
. . . Shall it be said in Pennsylvania, that a poor
shoemaker (though a guilty wretch) was confined in goal for
singing, in his drunken fits, a song in praise of the
British brute; and men, high in office, escape, whose
crimes, in magnitude, are to his, as the great Leviathan is
to a jumping flea?
Shall vice, says Swift, escape rebuke,
Because it's owner is a Duke?
The answer's plain---whoe'rs to blame
Should be displac'd, and brought to shame.
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