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Show I .w-mnmmmfl waft-Lawn: ‘ A rmdwwg," may", ..._, [16] REVIEW, &c. LA! Review cf tlie AMERICAN Contasat. ,. ATURE inl'truas the brute creation to provide N for, guard and protect their offspring, until they are able to do for themfelves. Th: dam is never known to forfake her young while her care is neceflary for their Iafety, nor to do any thing which would involve them in 3551 dif'trefs and difficulty. Man, who has this principle in common with brutes, is enoowed with others yet more valuable, but which to him are abfolutely necelfary, whereby he is taught to provide for the future welfare of his defcendants, and to guard them from the encroachments of that power which civil fociety conf'titutcs for its own fafety; but which, through the depravity of human nature, is often turned againf't it. There are few parents who do not make it their confiant fiudy and camel's endeavour to leave fome valuable inheritance to their children: few who have been fo loft to the feelings of nature and calls of parental afleaion, as to entail difficulty and diflrels on their children, when it was in their power to leave them a fair and eafy inheritance. And yet it has fo happened, that by an ill-timid attachment to the prefent, without paying proper attention to the future, they have entailed mifery upon them by the very means which were deiigned to preferve them from it. It is now in your power to bequeath to your children the one or the other, and it becomes you to have an eye to them in all your proceedings. It is fufiiciently known to you, that riches in arbitrary {iates are often the ruin of their policiibrs, and that fecurity to property is ahfolutcly neceffary to f'tamp their true'value on Wealth and poffeflions. He, therefore, who willies to leave his children in Houriflaing circumf'tances, ought to be a zealous friend to thofe meafures, and that plan of government which gives the greatef'c fecurity to property, and an acot‘ive warm oppofer of thofe which leave it to the arbitrary ditpofal of men, who find a greater what does not belong to what is juf'tly their own. of the queftion. Private advantage in making free with them, than in frugally uiing Whig and Tory fhould be out pique, party faction and ani' moftty mofity ought to fubfide. 17 He who thinks fllould think for pof'terity, and he who anf'rs fhould act for his children. i It is a great weaknefs to fuifer our pafli ons to take place of our reafon, and blindly to follow their diftates, though to our manifef't hurt, rather than fubjeé‘t them our better fenfe. A falle pride, which will not ackn to ow_ ledge an error though ever fo evident, an obliinate perfe~ verance in our own opinion, with out deigning to hear advice or inftruétion, and an unrea ionable attachment to party, have done much mifchief to mank ind, and may yet do more, if not carefully avoid ed. I have directed this paper to you in preference to other s, becaufe your parental affeéticn ihould form more than a Counterpoifc to every falfe principle, which can influence the huma n mind where the intereft of your offspring is at flake. Our prefent contef't is immenfely great, and every man muff fee that it will affect pofierity. Its confeque nces cannot end with itfelf; but the lateft generations mull: feel its effects. The greater Ruler of the univerfc hag permitted it for wife purpofes, and has called every one of us to aét our part in it. It becomes us, there fore, laying aiide all former prejudices, partiality and party at? tachmenrs, to a& upon principles which will jufiify us to him who has afligned us our flations, and caufe polic- rity to blefs the memory of their forefathers. we all agree in this, that Great Britain is unjuf't and arbit rary, and we have hitherto principally differed in the mode of oppofition, which ought to have been purfued. I fpeak not to thofe who think one way and talk anoth er. They aét upon fuch bafe principles, thatit is in vain to attempt to rouze in them anyjult or generous fenti ments. \Ve have no inflance of the converlion of avaricious or am- bitious hypocrites, and it would be waiting time to ufe arguments to convince them. I direct myfelf to you who have fincerity fuflicient to examine the princ iples on which you proceed, and honefty enough to purfu e that courfe of conduct which appears to be right, and to much affection for your children, as to prefer their inter eft and happincfs to every other confideration. For you I mean to |