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Show ( 38 ) When any community is fubordinately con- _ ( 39 ) i‘vliniflry mull of neceflity be always a quarrel neéted with another, the great danger of the connexion is the extreme pride and {elf-complacency of the fuperior, which in all matters of controverfy will probably decide in its own favour. It is a powerful correé'tive to fuch a very rational caufe of fear, if the inferior body can be made to believe, that the party inclina- tion or political views of feveral in the princi- with the nation ; they can {land no longer in the equal and friendly relation of fellow-citizens t0 the fubjefls of this Kingdom. Humble as this relation may appear to fome, when it is Once broken, a l'trong tie is diflblved. Other fort of connexions will be fought. For, there are very few in the world, who will not prefer an ufeful ally to an inlolcnt mailer. knowledge will hold a language which is con- tradicted by the whole courfe of hif'rory. General rebellions and revolts of an Whole people never were encouraged, now or at any time. They are always provoked. But if this un- heard-of doé'trine of the. encouragement of rebellion were true, if it were true, that an af- furance of the friendlhip of numbers in this country towards the colonies, could become an encouragement to them to break offal] connexion with it, what is the inference? Does But, if the Colonies (to bring the general matter home to us) could fee, that in Great Britain the mafs of the people is melted intoits Government, and that every difpute with the Miniflry any body ferioufly maintain, that,'ch:irged with my (bare or the public councils, lam obliged not to refill projects which I think mitClllCVOUS, left men wm fnffer {hould be em I) 3 couragccl . "v.3; Ely ,1 ,- Men of great prefumption and little "T.- ~':‘_T~ufi\',&3‘r€'<:kiq‘€fv bellion. g! iaunt from the forefight of future events can perihade. men who have received obligations fometimes to return them. Thus by the mediation of thofe healing principles,l(call them good or evil) troublelbme difculiions are brought to fome fort of adjuftment; and every hot con. troverfy is not a civil war. Such diicord has hem the effect of the unanimity into which lb many have of late been feduced or bullied, or into the appearance of which they have funk through mere defpair. They have been told that their dilfcnt from violent meafures is an encouragement to re- want?"*3": mlwwl'f'r‘z‘T'W counteract this blind and tyrannic partiality. There is no danger that any one acquiring confideration or power in the prefiding {late lhould carry this leaning to the inferior too far. The fault ofhuman nature is not ofthat fort. Pow er in whatever hands is rarely guilty of too firie‘t limitations on itfelf. But one great advantage to the fupport of authority attends fu-ch an amicable and protecting connexion, that thofe who have conferred favours obtain influence; and 14:» pal flare, will induce them in fome degree to |