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countries and i'll all ages, when men have had any great object to accomplish, reason and experience alike suggested the propriety of adopting some course of action, certain, uni form and efficient, by which, the efforts of those engaged in a common cause might unite and cooperate, instead of paralyzing each other by distinct and individual action. And 1t is the more necessary in this country, where the people are the source of all pollti- cal power, and the prime movers Ill every great and momentous enterprise Among the millions of freemen whose opinions are enti- tied to equal weight, in what other way are we to collect the sense of the majority? Es- pecaly, when we know that men, though belonging to the same party and governed by the same principles, will, on account of indi- vidual preferences and prejudices, differ wide ly on multiplicity of points-And when left to take distinct, individual action, notwith- standing they may have the same great end in view, the means they will employ to ac- compIish that end will be so contrary in their nature as to thwart each ether, and defeat the common intention We should now, per haps, be grooming under the tyranny of Great Britain, and subjected to state worse than yassalage, if union and concert Of action had not prevailed in choosing Generalissmo, and preparing plan ofoperatons to be steadl- ly adhered 10 in the Revolution which achi- eyed cur Independence. Suppose, before the time came which '.tried mems souls,o there had been no previous deiberation-no con- certed scheme agreed upon by those, who were summoned to the defence of their coun- try !-ln the hurry, confusion and indecison of the moment, men would have seized their arms and rallied around the standards of per haps a hmdred dTerem GeneraIs-Thus di- vded and weakened, and thus led on to the contest without organization, they would have become victims 10 the ambition of their leaders, and would have fallen an easy prey to the well disciplined army of the enemy.

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