Additions to Common sense, addressed to the inhabitants of America.

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.. auwfiawwv‘ REVIEW OF THE AMERICAN CONTEST .31 ,m«.u.,.m,y.m,gateway-m...,. V, as to imprefs your minds with anopinion, that all our tron-4 bies aroie from ourielves. They carefully. avord men~ tioning the iniquitous mealures of the'Britifh govern" ment which produced them, and by keeping thole out of 3 turn their hearts, e'er they be convinced by fatal experience, that he Who purchales the whole world at the price of his foul, is a very unwile dealer, and makes but a iight, they gradually lead the unwary into the belief, that poor bargain in the end. the men who have been molt arEtive on the prelent occa- cepts of religion, and diftates of patriotifm, cannot a« fmn in oppoiing the tyrannical proceedings of Great Britain, and who have hazarded their all. in defence of their cmmtry, have been a€tuated by limiter motives In all they have done. If every man who hears luch mlinua- tions were to alk thole who call them out, What mealures have not the men they condemn tried at one time or another to avoid the prel'ent conteli, and fave our 1i- berries? W'hat advantages can they reap by a fuccefsful end of it, which every other freeman on the continent will not reap equally with them ? And in an unfuccefsful cloie of it, all will allow they mul't be the greatefi: liul‘l‘erers. Their lives mutt go, let who will elfe efcape. Thule quellions might recall them to facts, and thefe . ' facts would enable men tojudge aright. Hoiielty could not {land the force of a few pertinent oucllions, but theie men have taken their leave of it, and. like Manalieh of old, have fold themfelvcs to do wirkediv. ‘Ncre it not lo, could it be poflible for them in the face oi" the fun, to charge all our troubles on the New England Prefbyterians, troubles which originally begun and have ail along been kept Up by a wicked adv mihii'tration and a venal parliament. To make them the hatchers of mifchiefs occalioned by unconltitutional acts oi" parliaments, and the only fomenters of our juil.‘ If the calls of virtue, the pre- waken them to a fenle of their duty, yet Norfolk might open their eyes. But let them do as they pleafe, we ought to aét wilely. If We do not make fuch a fettlemen: now as will fecure the privileges we contend for to polterity, we entail either flavery or a civil war on our children. This is certain, let what will be doubtful. Look round you then, view your offspring, and tell me, are you willing to leave them fuch a legacy? Do not trifle on this occalion, all your other legacies mufl derive their true value from the part you now take in this contefl. Think not that the God who charges him with worfe than infidelity who provides not for his own, and thofe of his houlhold, will jui'tify you in returning to the Rate you were in when our troubles began, and thereby delivering over your offspring to the mifchievous machinations of a power that from the beginning has let right, iuftice, and mercy at defiance, and in all her de~ liberations confidered nothing but her ability to execute. Look to the year 1763, that happy period, as many fo fondly call it, and fee what fafety there is toAmerica in fuch a lituation. Lord North has laid, " If that is " all they want, we are agreed ;" and the faying pleafes many of you. His Lordlhip, like others, who have learned wildom by experience, wilhes to have all to be- oppoiirion, which a Pennlylvanian Qiiaker, a Maryland gin again, believing that he could more eafily effect his and a Virginian churchman, did more to efiieét than all purpofe by other means than thofe he is at prefent pur- the other men on the continent put together, is cruelty in the extreme. My heart bleeds when I think of fuchi men; who would tell the whole continent, and all the blood on it, for private advantage, and with whom a few thouland guineas, with a title, would be elleemed an equivalent for the lives, liberty and property, of the freernen of a colony. May that God, who fees how little they can gain, if l'uccefsful, open their eyes and {uing. Swallow the bait and you are undone for ever. Can any man in his fenfes believe, that he who has to long, and {o invariably purfued his point againi't the fenfe of the bell: men in the nation, Will finally defert his maf~ ter's molt favourite feheme fo eafily? Has he uttered a. fingle lyllable that can make the molt credulous believe, that he is convinced of the injultice of his conduct ? He confelles he was deceived ; but wherein lay the deception? In believing that fewer troops would eti'eé't a {ubmiflion tuffl 1) than