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Show ['43] In this lituation, let us ferioufly and coolly ponder. What is it we have got by all our menaces, which have been many and ferocious? What advantage have we derived from the penal Iawslwe have pafied, and which, for the time, have been fevere and numerous? What advances have we made towards our object, by the fend; ing of a force, which, by land and fea, is no icontemptihle f'trength.P Has the diforder abated? Nothing lefs,----When I'fee things in thisfituation, Britifh Freedom. ' They complain, that thev are taxed in a Parliament, in which they are not re- prel‘ented, If you mean to fatisfy them at all, you mutt fatisfy them with regard to this complaint. If you mean to pleale any people, you mutt give them the boon which they alk; not what you may think better for them, but of a kind totally dirTerent. Such an aét may be a wile regulation, but it is no conceflion: whereas our prefent theme is the mode of giving fatis' faction. after fuch confident hopes, bold promifcs, and active exertions, I cannot, for my life, avoid a fufpicion, that the plan itfelf is not correctly right. Sir, I think you muft perceive, that I am refolved this day to have nothing at all to do with the quellion of the right of taxation. Some gentlemen {tattle-but it is true: I put it totally If then the removal of the caufes of this Spirit of American Liberty be, for the greater part, or rather entirely, impracticable; if the ideas of out of the quel'tion. It is lets than nothing in my confideration. ' I do not indeed wonder, nor will you, Sir, that gentlemen of profound learn- Criminal Procefs be inapplicable, or, if appli- ing are fond of difplaying it on this profound cable, are in the highel't degree inexpedient, what way yet remains? No way is open, but the third and lalt-to comply with the American Spirit as neccflary; or, if you p‘leafe, to fubmit to it, as a. uccelliiry Evil. fubjeét. But my confideration is narrow, con- fined, and Wholly limited to the Policy of the queflion. I do not examine, whether the giving avvay a man's money be a power excepted and relerved out of the general trufi of Government,and how far all mankind, in all forms of Polity, If we adopt this mode; if we mean to con:- are intitled to an exercife of that Right by the ciliate and concede; let us fee of what nature Charter of Nature. the concefiic-n ought to be? To afcertain the trary, a Right of Taxation is neceffarily involved 1n the general principle of Legiflation, and inleparable from the ordinary Supreme Power? nature of our conceflion, we mutt look at their complaint. The Colonies complain, that they have not the characteril'tic Mark and Seal of Britiflzr Or Whether, on the con- Thefe are deep queftions, where great E names militate |
