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3. Emily

Sinclair Oliver

AS A RECORD

OF FRATERNAL AFFECTION,

THE FOLLOWING ESSAYS ARE INSCRIBED TO

JACOB RUSH,

Judge of the Third District of Pennsylvania,

BY HIS FRIEND

AND BROTHER,

THE AUTHOR.

January 9, 1798.

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MOST of the following Essays were
published in the Museum, and Columbian
Magazine, in this City, soon after the end
of the revolutionary war in the United States.
A few of them made their first
appearance

in pamphlets. They are now published in a
single volume, at the request of several
friends, and with a view of promoting the
ends at first contemplated by them. Two of
the Essays, viz: that upon the use of To-
bacco, and the account of remarkable cir-
cumstances in the constitution and life of
Ann Woods, are now submitted for the first
time to the eye of the public. The author
has omitted in this collection two pamphlets
which he published in the year 1772, upon

part

the slavery of the Negroes, because he conceived the object of them had been in accomplished, and because the Citizens of the United States have since that time been furnished from Great-Britain and other countries, with numerous tracts upon that subject, more calculated to complete the effect intended by the author, than his early publications.

BENJAMIN RUSH.

Philadelphia, Jan. 9, 1798.