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Show CONSIDERATIONS, 6%". 0 one knows, how far every perfon in Bri-' tain may be interel‘ted in the event of the meafures now carrying on with refpeét to our colonies in North America. This feems to entitle any man, on account of his own fluke therein, to {peak his {entiments on the fuhjet‘t. The concern of the community gives to them liltewife for their better {ecurity a' claim, that every opinion may be offered for confideration‘. Thefe things refult from the natnre of :1 free {ociety and particularly from the conflitution of GreatBritain, where the people choofe one part of the legiflfiture and where every man is fuppofed to hate ultimately a. there in the government of his country. , . One point in difpute between us and the Americans is the right of taxing them here at home. This may be {aid to concern the power of our parliament. But f0 does every general propofition of right and wrong. When any thing is aflirmed to be unjuft, does not it conclude and is it not almoll: fynonimous to the faying, that a law made to enforce it would be fo too, and beyond the proper power of a legiflature? Vengeance and punilhment do in the courfe of things, af- furedly purfue ltates and nations for their oppreflion and injul'tice; againft the commiflion of which it is beyond quef'tion the right of every member of the eommnnity to warn the refl'. 1 say |
