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Show [90] ginning. [ 9I .1 Let this be your reafbn for not taxing. Thefe are the arguments of Rates and kingdoms. Leave the reit to the fehools ; for there only they may be difcufled with fatety. But it, intempe~ rarely, unwifely, fatally, you fophil'ticate and poilon the very fource of government, by urging {ubtle deductions, and confequences odious to thole you govern, from the unlimited and illimit- able nature of fupreme fovereignty, you will teach them by thefe means to call that fovereignty itfelf in quefiion. When you drive him hard, the boar will furely turn upon the hunters. If that fovercignty and their freedom cannot be recon- ciled, which will they take? They will caf'c your fovercignty in your face. No body will be argued into llavery. Sir, let the gentlemen on the other tide call forth all their ability ; let the belt of them get up, and tell me, what one character of liberty the Americans have, brand of bound in rellraints the lame and what one flavery they are free from, if they are their property and indullry, by all the you can imagine on commerce, and at time are made pack-horfes of every tax you choofe to impofe, without the leaft {hare in granting them? When they bear the burthens of pnlimited monopoly, will you bring them to bear the burthens of unlimited revenue too? The Englifhman in America will feel that this {lavery- that it is legal flavery, will be no compenfation, either to his feelings or his underflanding, A Noble Lord 5*, who {poke fome time ago, is full of the fire ofingenuous. youth; and when he has modeled the ideas of a lively imagination by ‘F Lord Cannarthen. i i furth: further experience, he will be an ornament to his country in either houfe. He has faid, that the Americans are our children; and how can they revolt againll their parent? He fays, that if they are not free in their prefent flare, England is not free; becaule Manchefier, and other con- fiderable places, are not i‘epreleiited. So then, became lome towns in England are not repre{ented, America is to have no reprefentative at all. They are " our children ;" but when child- ren alk for bread, we are not to give a fione. Is it becaufe the natural relifiance of things, and the various mutations of time, hinders out go- vernment, or any lbheme of government, from being any more than a fort of approximation to the right, is it therefore that the Colonies are to recede from it infinitely? When this child of ours wifhes to afiimilate to its parent, and to reflect with a true filial refemhlance the beauteous countenance of Britil'h liberty; are we to turn to them the {hameful parts of our confiitution? are we to give them our weaknefs for their firength; our opprobrium for their glory; and the flough of flavery, which we are not able to work of}, to {erve them for their freedom? If this be the cafe, all: yourfelves this queftion, will they be content in fuch a {late of flavery? If not, look to the confequences. Re- flec't how you are to govern a people, who think they ought to be free, and think they are not. Your feheme yields no revenue; it yieldsnothing but dilconte‘nt, diforder, dilobedience; and {rich is the Rate of America, that after wading up to your eyes in blood you could only end jul‘r when, you |