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Show L 25 ] who had brought me into the molt dreadful with the unprepared firength of our own infant colonies. But America is not fubdued. Not one unattached village, which was originally adverfe, throughout that vafi continent, W has yet fubmitted from love or terror. You have the ground you encamp on; and you have no more. The cantonments of your troops and your dominions are exactly of the fame extent. You fpread devziltatitiiz, but you do not enlarge the fphere of authority. The events of this war are of f0 much greater magnitude than thofe who either wifhed or feared 3?, ever looked for, that this alone ought to fill every confiderate mind with anxiety and diifitlence. tremble at the very \Vil'e men often things which fill the tl‘ioughtlels with fecurity. For many reafons I do not choofe‘ro expofe to public view, all the particulars of the Hate in which you ftood with regard to foreign powers, during the whole courfe of the lait year. Whether you are yet wholly out of danger from thofe powers, is more than I know, or than your rulers can divine. But even if I were certain of my fafety, I could not eatily forgive thofe "7 10 3elieve me, gentlemen, the way {till before you is intricate, dark, and full ofperplexed and treacherous mazes. Thofe who think they have the clue, may lead us out of this labyrinth. We may trufi them as amply as we think pr0per. But as they have molt certainly a call for all the reafon which their flock can furnifla, why {hould we think it proper to diilurb its operation by infiaming their pafiions? I may be unable to lend an helping hand to thoie who direé't the flare ; but I thould be afhamed 9 r twenty hireling Rates, have contended only them or me, I have efcaped. ,- fought, that they are at this inl‘rant in very great firaits. The abufed wealth of this coun» try continues a little longer to feed its difiem- per. As yet they, and their German allies of unforefeen by < for war, and obtained the blefiing they have perils, becaufe by accidents, to make myfelf one of a unity multitude to hollow and hearten them into doubtful and dangerous courles. A confcientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood. He would feel fome apprehenfion at being called to a tremendous account for engaging in f0 o‘er-p a play, without any fort of knowledge of the game. It is no excule for prefumptuous ignorance, that it is direflcd by infolent patThe pooref't being that crawls on tion. earth, contending to fave itfelf from iniuilice and oppreii'ion, is an objcfl refpec‘lableiin the eyes of God and man. Butl cannot conceive any exiftence under heaven, (which, in the depths of its wildnm, tolerates all forts of things) that is more truly odious and difgufling, than an impotent helplefs creature, C a without 7‘ a-‘WWWJ-pté‘ :: 5:131:15? m"cat:: :‘.:r‘o.- If; :4": :_ yrs"Y5§L~T¢Tf§li344 . . In: West?"- . < 1‘ '- [ 24 1 |