y places, which, in plain
terms, is to impoverish the nation and set it
together by the ears. A pretty business, indeed,
for a man to be allowed eight hundred thousand
sterling a year for, and worshiped into the
bargain! Of more worth is one honest man to
society and in the sight of God than all the
crowned ruffians that ever lived.

"But where, say some, is the king of America? I'll
tell you, friend, he reigns above, and doth not
make havoc of mankind, like the royal brute of
Britain."

_Junius._

"For my own part, far from thinking that the king
can do no wrong; far from suffering myself to be
deterred or imposed upon by the language of forms;
if it were my misfortune to live under the
inauspicious reign of a prince, whose whole life
was employed in one base, contemptible struggle
with the free spirit of his people, or in the
_detestable_ endeavor to corrupt their moral
principles, I would not scruple to declare to him:
'Sir, you alone are the author of the greatest
wrong to your subjects and to yourself.... Has not
the strength of the crown, whether influence or
prerogative, been uniformly exerted for eleven
years together, to support a narrow, pitiful
system of government, which defeats itself and
answers no one purpose of real power, profit, or
personal satisfaction to you?'"--Pref.

"The minister who, by secret corruption, invades
the freedom of elections, and the ruffian [meaning
the king] who, by open violence, destroys that
freedom, are embarked in the same bottom."--Let.
8.

"When Junius observes that kings are ready enough
to follow such advice, he does not mean to
insinuate that, if the advice of Parliament were
good, the king would be so ready to follow
it."--Let. 45.

In commenting on the sentence spoken of the king,
"_by whose_ NOD ALONE _they were permitted to do
anything_," he says: "Here is idolatry even
without a mask; and he who can calmly hear and
digest such doctrine, hath forfeited his claim to
rationalit