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Show r .86 3 [87] rights, and all the intrinfic dignity of human perfeé'tly acquiefces; and I confefs, I feel not nature. None of us who would not rifilue his the leaft alarm, from the difcontcnts which are life, rather than fall under a government purely to arife, from putting people at their eale; nor do I apprehend the deltrufl'ion of this empire, arbitrary. But, although there are fome amongit us who think our conftitution wants many im:provements, to make it a complete lyfiem of liberty, perhaps none who are of that opinion, would think it right to aim at fuch improve~ ,ment, by difiurbing his country, and rifquing every thing that is dear to him. In every ar: duous enter-prize, we confider what we are to lofe, as well as what we are to gain; and the MW? f more and better flake of liberty every people poflefs, the leis they will hazard in a vain at- ‘ tempt to make it more. man: Thefe are 1/36 cords of Man aéts from adequate motives relative to his interef'c; and not on metaphyfical {pecula~tions. Arifiotle, the great mafier of reafoning, cautions us, and with great weight and propriety, from giving, by an a€t of free grace and indul- gence, to two millions of my fellow citizens, tome {hare of their: rights, upon which I have always been taught to value myiclf. It is {aid indeed, that this power of granting veiled in American allemblies, would difiolve the unity of the empire; which was preferved, entire, although W'ales, and Chefler, and Durham, were added to it. Truly, Mr. Speaker, I do not know What this unity means; nor has it ever been heard of, that I know, in the confiitutional policy ofthis country. The very idea of l:t!lJO!‘dination of parts, excludes this notion of limple nd undivided unity. England is the head; but agaml't this fpecies of delufive geometrical accutracy in moral arguments, as the molt fallacious rot all fophifiry. {he is not the head and the members too. Ireland has ever had from the beginning a lcparatc, but not an independent, legiflature; which, far from dif'traéting, promoted the union of the whole. The Americans will have no interef't contrai- Every thing was fweetly and harino‘niou-{ly (htofed through both lflands for the conih‘varion to the grandeur and glory of England, when they are not opprefled by the weight of it; and they will rather be inclined to refpeét the aéts of a Iuperintending legiflature; when they fee of Englifh dominion, and the communication of Englilh liberties. I do not fee that the lame them the acts of that power, which is itfelf the lflands, and with the lame good efireét. This is Iceurity, not the rival, of their fecondary im-.- my model with regard to America, as far as the Penance, internal circumf‘tances of the two countries are principles might not he carried into twmry 1.1.1 this aflhrancez my mind moft ' perfectly i G 4 the |