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At a meeting of all the friends and adherents of the little orator, in Mr. B's Printing-Office, Upper Story.

Resolved, That in a republican government like ours, any man may run for any office he pleases; there is therefore, no constitutional reason why J. S—, Esq. should not set himself up for a Congress man.

That smaller men have filled larger offices—That no man has contributed more than he has, in sundry ways, to the amusement of the public.

Resolved, That he made the most ingenious, able, eloquent, oratorical, Demosthenian, Ciceronian, learned, deep and profound speeches, that were made at the last meeting of the General Assembly—This resolve was moved and certified by Mr. B; who declared he had very often asserted it in loaded em viris, in his paper, as a small panegyric, due to the vast service of the little orator; and that no one had contradicted it.

And Resolved further, and upon the same authority, that if it had not been for his ingenuity and patriotism, his learning and benevolence, his knowledge, wit, &c. &c. &c. not a single act, worth a farthing would have passed at the last session.

Resolved, That he has been at too great an expense in printing his speeches, to be disappointed, at least, in his object for doing so.

Resolved, That he never did a mean thing in his life—That he was never guilty of any duplicity, or any other kind of disingenuity in his mercantile transactions, and that it never appeared so in any Court of Justice.

That he never has been guilty of any political duplicity: and that we do not believe he was loading vessels on a Sunday, while he was pressing for a law to prevent others from loading them at all; or that after that law, which he deemed necessary to the dignity and salvation of his country was passed, he condescended (in order to defeat it) to sink from an owner and freighter of his own, to the loading of shallops; for Mr. B— says, and we know, that he is more disinterested patriot than any man in the United States; and therefore could never endeavor, for a paltry pedlar's profit, to defeat the laws of his country, by such low unworthy tricks, and aid a nation, supposed to be hostile to her interests; especially as Mr. S— at a certain meeting, made a most spirited, eloquent harangue in favor of the Embargo, and most virulently condemned all who, by any means, would attempt to defeat its effects, as traitors to their country. It is therefore utterly impossible he could have been the first to do so.

Resolved, That Mr. S— is a most excellent writer of Epitaphs: and therefore his friends request, that, as the only reward they will ask or expect for putting him in Congress, he will be pleased, when he shall have leisure from writing and correcting pieces for Mr. B—'s paper, to prepare an assortment of Epitaphs, for any, or all of the 15,000 men, who may fall by wound or sickness, in the western expedition.

Resolved, That it is high time something appeared from Mr. S—'s pen, on the death of Maria's squirrel which departed this life three days ago.

And lastly, Resolved, That Mr. S—.'s generosity, unexampled in this country, in resolving to spare no expense, to succeed in his election, entitles him to our votes, and a seat in the Legislature of the United States.

Resolved, That this meeting do accept of Mr. S—'s invitation to dine with him on the 13th inst.—And that one copy of the proceedings of this meeting be sent to Mr. S. and another prepared for the press.

Philadelphia, Oct. 4, 1794.