heart that we ever shall obtain any benifit or protection from them. He believes we shall just have as much protection wherever we be, as we can raise ourselves. He dont believe this government will ever do any thing to protect us. It is a damned wrotten thing—, full of lice, moth eaten, corrupt and there is nothing but meanness about it. What have we ever received from any of the governments the blackest perfidy and murder. He hates the government just as bad, as he loves the deacons well. There is no government worth asking for only what we can get from those whose interests are identified with ours. There was a time when a common justice of the peace might exert an influence against lawbreakers, but what can they do now. [p. [157]]