Excerpt from Ten Letters to Dr. Joseph Priestly, in Answer to His Letters to the Inhabitants of Northumberland
Two pamphlets of your writing, addreli'ed to the Inhabo itants of Northumberland, by accident falling into my hands, have excited no fmall degree of furprize, and appear to merit a few com ments. I had before thought that no man of ordinary reading. Could be to little acquainted with the Rate of the public mind in the United States, as you apppear to be. You fay, you/2c almofi all the News papers in Philadelphia it is to be wifhed, Sir, that you would learn the opinions of the Inhabitants of new.england, before you afl'ert things that have not the leali foundation.
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