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Show 74 THE RIGHTS or B RI T A I N confnfion. THFY cc-uld exil'c only in a flnrm. The rettoration of peace and tran- 4 The INTERNAL RESOURCES ofthe Amer- quility muil have reduced THEM to their original tnfigmficance; and as for the latter, in a wretched 1'};I.:.:cr-currc-ncy7, efiablilhed I ndercd detperate by dilappointed ambition, on no ot‘renfible lund olicredit; and voted deceive an unhappy people, over whofe minds they had eftablilhed a temporay doASH M .. 7; icans are as problematical, as their unanimity in rebellion. (.‘onfiti there mighty refources they would not htfitate to ruin their country, to procure the fall of their rivals. Such being the (late of opinions among the leaders 0: Faction on both tides of the Atlantc, " refillance by force became nan " turally the choice of the Congrels." To mg: (H mm. 'AND CLAIMS or AMERICA. minion, they boal't ot " their perfect union, " and their great INTERNAL refources; and " that foreign aflitlance is attainable." As to the flail, we have no reafon to give it impli- cit credit. The thew of unanimity, which now tubfifls in America, appears, from undoubted information, to be the (fleet of fear, more than any love for the dei‘perate caufe of the rebels. Men of property are, from interelt, enemies to confulion; and the intelligent, forefeeing the inevitable ifTue of hofiilities againtt the invincible power ofa mighty Empire, are averle to a contefl, that, on the tide of the Americans, mutt terminate in ruin. But BOTH are ter- rified into filence by the tyranny of a milled rabble; or their STILL VOICE is drowned in the clamours of Faction and tumult of Party, The by an illegal afirnhly, while uu:ho:itv lS feeble, on account. of its noveliy, and tranfitory, as it arifes from temporary prejudiccs? Should force, or even fully, ll mpa domefiic value on the gird/Be-é‘mrd dollars of the Congrels, what foreign nation Will receive them for its manufaétures and commodities? Are the Americans themfelves capable of furnilhing all tht greatvimpie: ments necrfliiry for the profecutton of wn; grits; Can they {ripply their armies .wr;h with powder, with Cannon, or with mu eis. a Is any one ofthefe articles manufactured in Anvlhhtijw iufiicicnt qurntity in America? wit tn}? can they be procured in hurope, ( ongsc S: Wictchzd currency of the General The C, lonilis, had not rcafon been of their warped by prejudice in_ every part ' ht have forcttcn, that their d ng it on. of the relources for carryi , at e hop to be whole Coat": is lined, it is ps of waiti :0 this very moment, with our {hi y erce. put a total {top to their Comm 1 firoke wthei 01‘r , 0- eat one hate ‘ ' , th e re'lor> e , low |