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Show - - _ __.._..._._‘-.-_--v-~-.‘.< .~.,.. F" (79) So great has been tlze credulity Court, or" the Britifh fro") iii". ltt‘giilllilt‘tg, (\1‘ incl ) ittlth bun the activity of lalic lirtthren, that 1:0 tale mimical - to the Northern (Lolonies, i.ow<-ver {Late 01‘ Illniu'd, but what hath found credit with adnrinitlration, and operated to the prejudice or" the Country. Thus it "as told, and believed in England, that We were not in earnefi in the expedition againit Canada atthe beginning of this century,and that the count) did ever}! t/Jiflg in its power fodg‘eaf l/u'p/irc'c‘cji (f {hand that the mzlfortune of Half (II/amp! nag/11‘ to be w/Jv/{y attributed Ia f/Je northern ro/wzz'w. W'hile nothin could be more obvious, than that New-England had exhautted her young/f blood and all her trealures in the undertaking; and that every motive of felt; prefervation, happinets and tatety mutt have ope- rated to excite thete provinces to the nioit fpirite d and perfevcring meatures againit Canada . ‘* The people who are attacked by bad men have :1 teflinrony of their merit, as the confiitution which is invaded by powerful men, hath an evi- dence ofit's \ alue. The path of" our duty needs no minute delineation :---it lies level to the eve. Let us apply then, like, men tentihle of it's importance and determined on it's fulfi llment. The in- roads upon our public liberty call for reparation : The wrongs we have intiaint'd rail fol-*jufiice. ‘l‘hat reparation and that jutiit'e may vttibe obtained by union. tpirit and tirmnets. 'But todi- vide. and conquer was the maxim of the Devil in the garden otliden---and to ditu nite and inflave hath been the principle of all A}; \‘ota ries from that period * See pm nummigr‘s Letter to a Natl: Lord u 13mm Edit, 1712. 6, period to the preterit. The crimes of the guilty are to them the cords of aflbciation, and dread of punithment, the indiiioluble bond of union. The combinations, of publick robbers ought, there fore, to cement patriots and heroes: and as the former plot, and confpire to undermine and defir oy the common-wealth, the latter ought to form a compa& for oppotition-a band of vengeance. What intidious arts, and what detettable practices have been ufed to deceive, difunite and enflave the good people ofthis Continent? The nzyftical appellations of loyalty and allegiance, the venera. ble names of government and good order, :nd the facred ones of piety and public virtue have been alternately proltituted to that abominable purpofe. All the windings and guites, Iiibtertuges and doublings, of which the human foul is {uteeptiblcx have been ditplayed on the occafion. But ii-crets Which were thought impenetrable are no longer hid ; characters deeply difguifed are Openly revealed : the difcovery of grofs impoftors hath generally proceeded, but a thort time, their utter extirpation. , Be not again, my country-men, " EASILY capti" 'vated wit/J t/Je appearamer ONLY 9/ wifdom and " piety-prq/Ej/iozz: of a regard to liberty and of a " firong attachment to the publick intereft." *Your fathers have been explicitly charged with this folly by one of their potterity. Avoid this and allflmi/ar errarx. Be cautious againft the deception of ap- pearances. By [barf/"ail: ye /]Jtl//t/10$U t/Jem, was the taying of ONE: who perfectly knew the human heart. Judge ot'afl'airs which concern facial happinets 19yfablr z-judge of man [2}; M; death. 1or it is very certain, that pious zealfa" old]! and film, to: h mint f" Hutch: liii't. I vol. p. 55. |