text:  With that cunning which the faction have often shown in the use of apparent opportunities they gained the reluctant concurrence of a few upright men of whose peculiar scruples they contrived to avail themselves but with an ignorance of the true English character for which they are equally distinguished they overshot the mark and stand convicted of a design to make a verbal misconstruction the pretence for persecuting an absent man and to convert honest prejudices into an unconscious instrument of oppression