Speech to the electors of Bristol (1774) [ Practices ]
… I gave my thanks to those who favoured me with their votes) less like a candidate, than an unconcerned spectator of a public proceeding. But here the face of things is altered. Here is an attempt for a general massacre of suffrages; an … his 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 … for their temperate and polite behaviour; and the sheriffs, for a conduct which may give a model for all who are in public stations. … "I assure the worthy freemen, and this corporation, that, if the gentleman perseveres in the …
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