ABSTRACT
An attentive perusal of many political Pamphlets, produced in the beginning of the present year, and an opinion that it would not be difficult to expose the fallacy of the arguments upon which were founded the most popular of those written against the Cause of Freedom, led me first to think of attempting their refutation; and some leisure during the autumn months, enabled me to try what I had previously wished to have seen done by any abler hand. I have espoused that side which is, for the moment, the least popular; and obscure as both this Pamphlet and its Author may be, I am therefore prepared to expect some small share of that obloquy, which is now so largely bestowed on all those who presume to question the wisdom of the measures of government. Secured from danger by power, and uncontradicted by reason, because of the danger, the advocates of Corruption 184have of late exulted, almost unopposed, in their triumph. The most moderate Favourers or Reform nave been blended with the most insane Zealots for Revolution; Toleration and Atheism; Peace and Regicide, have, by the supporters of abuses, been wickedly deemed, and by the multitude weakly believed, to be synonimous terms.
