and are vehement and clamorous, only that they may be ſooner hired to be ſilent.
A man ſometimes ſtarts up a Patriot, only by diſſeminating diſcontent and propagating reports of ſecret influence, of dangerous counſels, of violated rights, and encroaching uſurpation.
This practice is no certain note of Patriotiſm. To inſtigate the populace with rage beyond the provocation, is to ſuſpend public happineſs, if not to deſtroy it. He is no lover of his country, that unneceſſarily diſturbs its peace. Few errors, and few faults of government can juſtify an appeal to the rabble; who ought not to judge of what they cannot underſtand, and whoſe opinions are not propagated by reaſon, but caught by contagion.
The fallaciouſneſs of this note of patriotiſm is particularly apparent, when the
