The American Rush-light  by the help of which wayward and disaffected Britons may see a complete specimen of the baseness, dishonesty, ingratitude, and perfidy of republicans and of the profligacy, injustice, and tyranny of republican governments / by Peter Porcupine.

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The American Rush-light by the help of which wayward and disaffected Britons may see a complete specimen of the baseness, dishonesty, ingratitude, and perfidy of republicans and of the profligacy, injustice, and tyranny of republican governments / by Peter Porcupine.