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Show [ 98 ] [99] But with regard to her own internal efiablifh- race and fons of England worfhip freedom, their will turn their faces towards you. The more ments; fhe may, I doubt not {he will, contribute in moderation. I fay in moderation; for fhe ought not to be permitted to exhauf't herfelf. She ought to be referved to a war; the weight of which, with the enemies that we are moft likely to have, mutt be confiderable in her quarter of the globe. There {he may ferve you, and ferve you elfentially. , For that fervice, for all fervice, whether of revenue, trade, or empire, my truft is in her intereft in the Britifh conftitution. My hold of the Colonies is in the clofc affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from limilar privileges, and equal protection. Thefe are tics, which, though light as air, are as firong as links of iron. Let the Colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights aflociated with your Government ;-they will cling and grapple to you ; and no force under heaven will be of power they multiply, the more friends you‘ will have; the‘more ardently they love liberty, the more perteét will be their obedience. Slavery they can have any where. It is a weed that grows in every loil. They may have it from Spain, they may have it from Pruflia. But until you become loft to all feeling of your true interefl: and your natural dignity, freedom they can have from none but you. This is the commodity of price, of which you have the monopoly. This is the true aft ofnavigation, which binds to you the commerce of the Colonies, and through them fecures to you the wealth of the world. Denv them this participation of freedom, and you break that fole bond, which originally made, and mull {till pre- ferve, the unity of the empire. Do not entertain fo weak an imagination, as that your 1'egifters and your bonds, your affidavits and your fufferances, your cockets and your clearances, are But let it be what form the great fecurities of your commerce. once undex‘ftood, that your Government may be Do not dream that your letters of office, and your one thing, and infiruétions, and your lufpending claufes, are the things that hold together the great contexture of this myfierious whole. There things do not make your government. Dead inllruments, paflive tools as they are, it is the lpirit of Englit'h communion that gives all their life and efficac to tear them from their allegiance. their Privileges another; that thefe two things may exilt without any mutual relation; the cement is gone; the cohefron is loofened; and every thing liaftens to decay and difiblution. As long as you have the wifdom to keep the levereign authority of this country as the fancluary of liberty, the facred temp‘e con-. fecrated to our common faith, wherever the chofen race to them. It is the fpirit of the Enalifh confli- tution, whieh,'infufed through the iriighty mafs, H 2 pervades, |