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morals and truth; the common sense of the people
now claimed its right to sit in judgment on the greatest question ever raised in the political world.
But here as elsewhere, the decision rose out of the affections; all the colonies, as though they had been but one individual being, felt themselves wounded to the soul, when they heard and could no longer doubt, that George the Third was hiring foreign mercenaries to reduce them to subjection.
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