nd who have virtue enough to prefer the
general good of the community to the gratification of personal
animosities--it is time for such men to interpose. Let us try
whether these fatal dissensions may not yet be reconciled; or, if
that be impracticable, let us guard, at least, against the worst
effects of division, and endeavor to persuade these furious
partisans, if they will not consent to draw together, to be
separately useful to that cause which they all pretend to be
attached to. Honor and honesty must not be renounced, although a
thousand modes of right and wrong were to occupy the degrees of
morality between Zeno and Epicurus. The fundamental principles of
Christianity may still be preserved, though every zealous sectary
adheres to his own exclusive doctrine, and pious ecclesiastics
make it a part of their religion to persecute one another. The
civil constitution, too--that legal liberty, that general creed
which every Englishman professes--may still be supported, though
Wilkes and Horne, and Townsend and Sawbridge, should obstinately
refuse to communicate; and even if the fathers of the Church--if
Saville, Richmond, Camden, Rockingham, and Chatham should disagree
in the ceremonies of their political worship, and even in the
interpretation of twenty texts of Magna Charta. I speak to the
people as one of the people. Let us employ these men in whatever
departments their various abilities are best suited to, and as
much to the advantage of the common cause as their different
inclinations will permit. They can not serve us without
essentially serving themselves."

In the above Junius places himself on the side of the people, and
clearly above all party or faction. But he continues:

"I have too much respect for the abilities of Mr. Horne, to
flatter myself that these gentlemen will ever be cordially
re-united. It is not, however, unreasonable to expect, that each
of them should act his separate part with honor and integrity to
the public. As for differences of opinion upon speculative
questions, if we wait until they are reconciled, the action of
human affairs must be suspended forever. But neither are we to
look for perfection in any one man, nor for agreement among many.
When Lord Chatham affirms that the authority of the British
legislature is not supreme over the colonies in the same sense in
which it is supreme over Great Britain; when Lo