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Show (25) This is, no doubt the American idca, asappcars by many f 124‘) '1 m, 1. :‘_ mm, kL;Lr ,«_ Kilt-ii, theft: 11c: 131‘ any ones and no other"; .llti‘tt an objeft'was artfuily or indicitiiuiiy chofen for this tuft, Vtich ls fo cont'htnt Qt {art of diet or luxury, that It Was tortilly .wtthimpoflihie to prevent the tax. irotn .tnrktn'gg plnce, ont hindering. the cennnodity itielt trom being intro- duced ; that therefore the Attter.c:tns 1111111 nbfolurely proofs and papers from thatfide of the Water.I ~all myfclf prcfumc to fpeak no opinion in the cafe, much lcfs will I call again on the memes of our anceftors, in fupport of this pretenfion, _ But {hould it be obfervcd, that it ends in a queflion, which concerns, the bounds and limits of government ; I cannot on the occafion but repeat and enforce, by this example, the do that, or lofe their right ; that the endeavouring to do it by a gen-end concert and agreement would have been no heiter 1113.11 1 adding 2 etty named the {ands or remark before made, ofhow dangerous and deadly a DEN": the difputcs and contefls arc, which lead thi- the feet ; that thereupon the town of Bohon did an a fort of public meeting, u‘ie every inl'znnce and nppltctta tion poflible, 120111 with the (311111111115 ot the ten lntps and with the Governor, that the ten tttigitt be retnrnn ed, untouched and undamaged :13 it came; that this So much for the reé‘titude of taxing the Americans! would fecure l'l‘lfil‘ right, and they defn'ed no more ; that this was ahfoiutely ref‘ufed ; th-=t there was the-re- ttpon no expedient left for the preferring tnetr right: but dellroying the ten; that this was Without any ex~ prefs authority of the town, done by private people, but in all appearance with the gent-1111 inclination and With the 131111 tnifcniet 2111-21 den-11111:: done pohtble, t cr. 1 i, .- . _ . , , 1 . But [may be told that I have not yet touched the true point, thatI have been doing littlemore, than a man; who rides pol't out of his road. ,Thnt flatcfmen and politicians do indeed fometimes talk of. the rightnnd the wrong, of the julticc and injultice ofmeafurcs; but ‘thaththis is all only oftenftble reafonings, while there maybe at the bottom, nothing, which they care lefs about. That the great do every where bear hard on the little, the flrong on the weak. That the hawk hunts the partridge, the lion the wolf, and the wolf the lamb; that powerful princes and ,‘l‘lates op- C; that there was fume ten fpilt, but no biood ; that this prefs the helplefs, and the high and the richthofe be,- refers the whole to the firft and original quei‘tion of the right; that the Americans make thereon the fame claim, as the people of Scotland would have in an el- ncath them ; that this is the courfe of the world, and the chapter of the law of nature, which we intend to confult and to follow ; that we want money at home ;.' fentinl circnnt ante of the union; or thote of lrelgtnd, fhonld the line obt'erved between them and Great that our debtsarc very heavy, and our rcfources but Bzitztin be pulled in any point, which would affect their vhole interelt and welfare, as :1 11111011 ; that in the other colonies the Governors and Captains confented to the fending back the ten or {hurting it up in fnch :1 and are determined to bend to our will our colonies of America, and to makethem fubfervient to our Wants and occafions ; that this is at the bottom, and that all too near an end ; that we have yet fleets and armies, 3 my cafuiflry may, in the mean time fervc the purpofes manner as never to be fold or difpei'i‘ed; that thele of grocers and paflry cooks; that if people mutt write did not therefore in their cafes make immediate force. about matters of (late, they ought to do, it like men, necefl‘ary, but that their not was in effect the fame and llands on the fame ground. That there 16 nothing man Very well; Ijoin ifltte hereon, don't let us go too fal‘t 5 one thing at a time; lignttnt in the whole ttl‘dttfir, nothing but a determined delire to fupport this their grea and necefinry riglhtt '12111 n" 1111112131" |