Speech to the electors of Bristol (1774) [ Practices ]
… own acts, is another question. The law will decide it. I shall only speak of it as it concerns the propriety of public conduct in this city. I do not pretend to lay down rules of decorum for other gentlemen. They are best judges of the … election, and the sheriffs ought not to have admitted you to poll." Gentlemen, I should make a strange figure, if my conduct had been of this sort. I am not so old an acquaintance of yours as the worthy gentleman. Indeed I could not have … of freemen; even though I should, at the same time, be obliged to vindicate the former a part of my antagonist's conduct against his own present inclinations. I owe myself, in all things, to all the freemen of this city. My particular …
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