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Show i 33 ) (22> tireirsK-But f ppofc the contrary. Empire all the unity that is necell‘ary. But itnot ill, in order to preterve its Unify, one half of it mull be enflaved to the other half, let it, in the name of God, want Unity. Much has been (aid of " the Snfrrz'nriryof the Britifh State." But what gives us our {uperiority ?---ls itour H'm/tli ?---'l‘his never confers real dignity. On the contrary: Its elicit is always to debafe, intoxicate, and corrupt. Is it the mun/M's pf our jump/c r" The colonies will foon be equal to us in number.-- ls it our melmige and Firm; .9 They are probably (qua/[y knowing, and mare virtuous. There are names among them that will not (loop to any names among the philot‘ophets and puliticians of this illand. " lint we are the PARENT STATE. 5v --Thel‘e are the magic Worth; which have l'al'cincited and milled us.--~-«'l‘he Englifll came iros‘n Slant/unit Does that grve the German Mates 3. right to tax us?--»Chilnren, havingr no property, and being; incapable of guiding thernfi'lves, the author ot nature has Committed the care of them to their parents, and lubjecletl them to their abiolnte authority. lint there is a period "when, Have they done nothing for us ? Have they made no compenl'ations for the punt-choir they have received? Have they not helped us to pay our rum, to l‘upport our poor, and to bear the burthen of our debts, by taking from us, at our own price, all the Commodities with which we can lupply them f-Have they not, for our advan- tage, tubnritted to nrény rellraints in acquiring property? h'lutl: they likewile refign to us the dilpofal of that property? Ills not their excluhve trade with us been {or many years one o! the chierf tourccs of our national wealth and power? In all our wars have they not fought by our tide, and contri- buted much to our (meets? in the lull war, particularly, it is well known, that they ran themielveb deeply in debt; and that the. parliament thought it nectilary to grant them confiderable {urns annually as cornperrtations {or going beyond their abilities in allifiling us. And in this comic would they have continued for many future years; perhaps, for evcr.-~--ln firort, were an accurate account {late , it is by no means certain which Vthn allied its/na- lide Would appear to be molt indebted. mm, they have hitherto leldom difcovered any reluctance in. giving. But, in obedience to a demand, and with the bay onet: having acquired property, and a capacity otjudging {or tbtm- at thier breails, they will give us nothing but blood. Myer, they become independent agents; and when, for this re'rt‘on, the authority of" their parents males, and becomes It is farther laid, " that the land on which the,» fettled was " ours."---But how came it to be ours? It tailing along a nothing but the telpcé't and influence due to benefactors. Su polirig, therefore, that the order oi" nature in eilablrlhintr the coatl can give a right to a country, then might the people of relation between parents and children, ought to have beeir the rule of our conduct to the Colonies, we {hbuld have been gra- dually relaxing our authority as they grew up. But like mad parents, we have done the Contrary; and, at the very time when our authority lhould have been nroil‘ relaxed, we have carried it to the greater": extent, and exercited it with the greatetl rigour. No wonder then, that they have turned noon us; and obliged us to remember that they are not children: " Ilsci‘iufuyvelblag/2c:is liai'd, protected them, and run deeply in . r nrnt. ---1 be full anlwer to this has been 7511‘)" become, as form as they pltafe, the proprietors of [Jl'lt/IHI. founded on Ntrtltlnfl‘a can be more, chimerical . than property , i . . fuch a reaton. If the land on whrch the Colonies hilt tettletl had any proprietors, they were the natives. The greatet't part of it they bought of the natives. They have hnce cleared and cultivated it; and, without any help from us, converted a wildernct's into fruitful and pleat-ant fields. It is, therefore, now on a double account their property; and no power on earth can have any right to dillurb them in the pollllr'ion of it, or to take from them, without their content, any part or'rts produce. But . already given, (p. it), 17.) VVrll any one fay, that all we have done for them has not been more on our own account", than on which grant there bountics, See the Appeal to the j'ul‘tice, Sec. page 2 r, third ' their: ? ' TliEs is particularly trneoftht‘ lam/it's grrrntetlon {omeAmerican commoditics (. x pitch, tar, .uunio, Jet.) "llkn imported into Br‘rtrrm ,- tor it is vrell known, , v.ht. end ., thn (r.H .tl‘ ,._ mm . -» . ' inving‘thtn r ‘,,. A .tb, to gtt_ thote. commoditi es clrtaper from thC ,. .. , , r, . . ‘ ‘ ' .s and in rrtrmr ‘ "it our manrrtactur es, u lirt'h we tried to pm from [my/rd y. ,.i' v , ' ' ‘ .1..d ole:. tcttrgn 1 COtlltillxa. find lllla 1‘; caprciled in the preamble of‘ the ltms \K hich edition it is, therefore, (trill-gt: that Driélu‘ . . ‘ ‘ IU t K i; R and ole-rs, thou-d (.ohave inlitled to much upon that hountics as favours and indulpei t‘C‘iIO the have lonies.-»--liut it is tlill more ilrrtrtgt‘, 1h it the taint- reprelt ntnion hrould been made (it the cornpenfations granted them tor doing more during tlrt‘l‘tll in: \rat' in aiiirling us than could hate been rearontrnly Expert-d; and al‘o at {l-lir‘jll Cl.)l‘l'_l|[ ;‘ {unis we hate {pent in maintaining troops union}; tncnr a!!! See :r‘ l'.rniphtet.'erzlrt ed " ltd; right «,2 and in oppotii'iou to their wi'tlies. (Jrcttt b‘ritain atlertcd eguitrll the claims ut Atheitor.' " arm-«4w... ""5" ' .» - |
