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Show ( 31 An arrangement at home promifing tome fecurity for them ought to be made. By doing this, without the leaft impairing of our firength, we add to the credit of our moderation, which in itfelf, is always firength more or lef . that moderation, in a cafe like this, is a fort encouraged and kept alive by every art, has already done incredible mifchief. For a long of treafon: and that all arguments for it are time, even amidfi the defolations of war, and fufficiently anfwered by railing at rebels and the infults of hoftile laws daily accumulated rebellion, and by charging all the prefent or on one another, the American leaders teem to future miferies which we may fufi'er, on the have had the greatef't difficulty in bringing up their people to a declaration of total independence. But the Court Gazette accomplifhed what the abettors of independence had attempted in vain. When that difingenuous compila- refifiance of our brethren. But I would wifh them, in this grave matter, and if peace is not wholly removed from their hearts, to confider ferioufly, firth-that to criminate and re- criminate never yet was the road to reconciliation, in any difirerence amongft men. In the next place, it would be right to reflect, that tion, and firange medley oft-ailing and flattery, was adduced, as a proof of the united {entiments 5 4 mm real-H- 4 as: 4' This outrageous language, which has been I know many have been taught to think, cu Mr ‘1‘" .r A". i 2: All communication is cut oflr be- tween us. But this we know with certainty; that though we cannot reclaim them, we may reform ourfelves. If meafures of peace are neceffary, they mufl begin fomewhere ; and a conciliatory temper mull: precede and prepare every plan of reconciliation. Nor do I conceive that we fuifer any thing by thus regulating our own minds. We are not difarmed by being difencumbered of our paihons. Declaiming on Rebellion never added a bayonet, or a charge of powder, to your military force ; but I am afraid that it has been the means of taking up many a mufket againfl you. A,we.. ,4-: ., M infirué‘tion. 3- doned. Nothing indeed (forI would not deceive you) can place us in our former fituation. That hope mull be laid afide. But there is a difference between bad and the word of all. Terms relative to the caufe of the war ought to be offered by the authority of parliament. the abfent) can, as things now fland, neither be provoked at our railing, or bettered by our , ,. . ,u made and continued this war, mutt be aban- that the American Englilh (whom they may abufe, if they think it honourable to revile . » . rim:-‘-;,L".4-\Ld.-:Am.‘1" 'f‘_;C&§§.«1_£"JQ"T¢37:7,: ., .. ‘"gm ( 3° ) mutt depend, in their {everal Rages and periods, upon a total renunciation of that unconditional fubmiflion, which has taken fuch pofléflion of the minds of violent men. The whole of thofe maxims, upon which we have |