concerted and carried on in common bawdy-houses, assisted by those
who kept them.

The connection between vice and meanness is a fit subject for satire,
but when the satire is a fact, it cuts with the irresistible power of
a diamond. If a Quaker, in defence of his just rights, his property,
and the chastity of his house, takes up a musket, he is expelled the
meeting; but the present king of England, who seduced and took into
keeping a sister of their society, is reverenced and supported by
repeated Testimonies, while, the friendly noodle from whom she was
taken (and who is now in this city) continues a drudge in the service
of his rival, as if proud of being cuckolded by a creature called a
king.

Our support and success depend on such a variety of men and
circumstances, that every one who does but wish well, is of some use:
there are men who have a strange aversion to arms, yet have hearts to
risk every shilling in the cause, or in support of those who have
better talents for defending it. Nature, in the arrangement of
mankind, has fitted some for every service in life: were all
soldiers, all would starve and go naked, and were none soldiers, all
would be slaves. As disaffection to independence is the badge of a
Tory, so affection to it is the mark of a Whig; and the different
services of the Whigs, down from those who nobly contribute every
thing, to those who have nothing to render but their wishes, tend all
to the same center, though with different degrees of merit and
ability. The larger we make the circle, the more we shall harmonize,
and the stronger we shall be. All we want to shut out is
disaffection, and, that excluded, we must accept from each other such
duties as we are best fitted to bestow. A narrow system of politics,