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corner stone of the writer's argument. If this fabric falls. Such sentiments, we are persuaded, can find no countenance, at the bar of your august assemblies. The writer having avowed his principles proceeds to describe the doings of his party. He says, "we sounded the alarm, we called in the authorities of the nation, -- we asked, we entreated, we implored. But, we were met at the very threshold, as the enemies of our country: and the same system of opposition, has been waged against us to this day". -- Now, with submission we would ask, what does all this prove? Assuredly, that the current of public opinion was against them: that they were, indeed, a small minority; opposed to the will of the people. That "a vast majority were opposed to them:" that the sentiments of the people are unchanged to this day: and that they were not empowered to act on our behalf. The writer labors to mark a distinction between the views of the people and the views of those whom, with supercilious contempt, he quotes as "the constituted authorities of the nation."