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They Must be obayed, Let them be naver so Rong his opinnion & that their is no
Reamidy for Grevenes but by petetioning the authority that made them, & useing
his Rights & Influence in Elections, 5tly a knoledge of the true Carrietor prin
saples & abilities of all those he votes for Into any kind of office, 6tly, A
Knowledge of the Existing Sentiments & wishes of all those he votes for into
any kind of office that are in his own Circumstances, In the town, County, State
& nation to which he belongs, so that he may unite with them in the Choice
of the Ablest & Best Men to take care of & Difend their Interest, also unite
in petititioning Government for the Redress of Grevances, 7thly also a knoledge
of the Debates in the State & National Legislatures & the side his own
Representative takes in the Decitions they Make, he aught to have all
this knoledge Independant of any Man or ordirs of Men, who May be Inter
-ested to Deceiv or Mislead him, The prinsaple means of obtaining this knoledge
is by the Libberty of the press, & Newspapers have bin a grate means of Convey
-ing it to those who have bin at the cost & troble of peruseing them, But by
the arts & combinations of the few, of Late they have become so numerous Costly
& Controdictory to Each other, that not one fifth parte of those that Labour
for a Living Receive any benifit by them, for they Cannot be at the Expence
of the time & Money they Cost, nor believ what they hear from them,
Also Newspapers are generally filled up to Gratify Men of Larning & Lasure, a
grate part of which is very uninteresting to a Labourer, & when they have
bin Red once or twice they are both Considered & Usead as wast paper
Conciquently what was valuable in them is Commited to Memory or Lost
forever -

The proposed Magazen is Ment to Convey the above Described knoledge & all other
nesecary & usefull Knoledge for a Farmer & Labourer to have as much as pos-
-sable, & to be so filled as to Induce those that take it to wrap them together
in yearly vollams & preserve them safe to the Lastest generations -
The publication of it to begin with the present Centery & Many of the firsts [Nom?]
to be filled with the Most Importat Events & transactions of the Amarican Revolu
-tion, such as the Confediration, Declaration of Independance, State Constitution,

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