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Show 54 SERIES 017 ANSWERS To HERE therefore I all: one plain, decifive‘ (luei'tiom-Are EngZi/lmmz and Hanoveriam the fame People, or the fame Nation P Are they the Subjects of the fame Prince by one and the fame Title ? And do Hanaweriam enjoy any one Pri- POPULAR OBJECTIONS. 55; Their Bulinefs was, to play the Legetdemain. of Cups and Balls with Common Senfe and Common Honelly. For when any Engliflz Benqfit was to be enjoyed, then we were gravely And to what Purpofe are they brought, but to told, that flmcrz'cam were as much Engfi/lzmen as ourfelves, and therefore ought to be permitted to enjoy the fame Privileges and Advantages in common with us: But when any Engli z Bur- t/zeizs were to be born, or any Engli 1 Taxes to perplex the Caufe, and to draw 05" the Atten- be railed; for the Maintenance of theft: Privi- vilege either at Home or Abroad, belonging to the Englz' 1 Nation? Certainly not: How then can thefe Cafes be pretended to be parallel? tion of the Reader? To make the Cafes parallel, we are to fuppofe an A'meriran to be as much an ALIEN, and to be as incapable by Law of enjoying any Honours, Places, or Preferments in thefe Realms, as an Hanaverz'mz is: We are alfo to fuppofe him excluded from all thofe com» mercial Benefits and Protections by Sea or Land, which are pofi'efled, and have by Treaties been acquired, by the Eng/M; Government, for the [0/5 (W of Engh‘ z Subjects:-Nay, we are to fuppoi‘e fiill further, viz. That the American: never owed any Allegiance to his Majefiy by Virtue of his being King of Great-Britain, and of the Dominions thereunto belonging-,-- but as being King of America by afeparate, difiinét, and independent Title. All this, I fay, mull; be previoufiy fuppofed. But alas' this is not what the Congrefs and their republican Advo- cates ever meant to fay, or wilhed to fuppofe. Their leges-~then truly the flmerz'mm were no longer Engliflmzm, but a diltinét and feparate People, who ought not to have been taxed without their own Confent, AWAY ye Advocates for Treafon and Rebel-4 lion! Away with liuch jcfuitifm and Chicane ‘" And ye pretended Patriots, either ftay and teafon at Home like fair and honel't Man -, or elfe throw of? your Difguife, aft openly, and leave us. Go, and join your Allociates in Amerim, and there be happy in yourfree and equal Democratic Governments. There preach up the Doctrine, that every human moral Agent is to be his own Legiflator, his own Governor, and his own Director. There maintain your fundammtal'l'amdox, that no Man ought to obey any Laws, imputed upon him without his own Con« fem; And there alfo refufe to pay any Taxes, which. |