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have Virtue enough to ſacrifice all private Conſiderations to the Publick Good?
By the Artifice of cunning and deſigning Men, who have been to long, kept divided in Parties, and exaſperated againſt one another without Senſe or Reaſon, only to help them to climb, and be a Ladder for ambitious Knaves.
It is high Time for all thoſe who have the ſame Bowels for their Country, to join Hearts and Hands in its Deliverance, to forget and forgive part Diviſions, to ſeek to redreſs Wrongs, not to revenge them, and to ſacrifice every other Paſſion to the general Welfare.
Let then no other Denomination be heard among us, no other Diſtinction but that of good Brittons; let all who would merit that Name, unite, embrace, and take a Roman Reſolution to ſave their Country, or periſh with it.
Brutus was a ſworn Enemy to Pompey, the Murderer of his Father; but when it happened that Rome muſt periſh, or Pompey be ſupported, Brutus became Pompey’s Friend.
Brutus took an Oath to Cæſar, but Brutus never ſwore to be an Enemy to his Country.
