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Show 196 CANADA PAMPHL ET. have taken place among the others, but §oglcaufes£ an tome of which are in ~our caie unpoii c, 1 ' I Others it is impious to iuppofe poihblc.‘ nc 1 w policyi that The Romans well underiltood hent govletnm chlch the to ariling teaches the fecurity [Az B.T.] The French dangemm in Cmmdrt. 1 97 --Yet this dominion was unihakeable, till the lofs of liberty and corruption of manners in the {overeign ftate, overturned it. from feparate flares among the (inane; ,Gw en But who! it the prudent policy into/called 5}! tbs Remote/tor, to admin this end, ficurzly of dominion reg? over our colonies? It 23, to leave the French in (oppr'efled but united under Macedon) y all} e 1 :, Canada, to " Check" their growth; for ot/Jerwyé our people may " increqfl' lnflnz'teblfrom ollmu/ér 9*." We have already feen in what manner the French and theirIndians check the growth of our colonies. they reitored the liberties of the tttcsbo that every {late ihould live under its oeri 3W8 . They did not even name a governor Ifi n1epen1; dence of each other, and feparate intere s, (t tolug among a people united by common mannersl, anoua're, and I may fay religion; inferior neit lelfin iwifilom, bravery, nor their love of liberty,_ to the Romans thcmfelvesfi was all .the fecurrty t e fovereigns withed for their fovei'elgnty. It l1s tn}:E they did not call themfelves fovereigns ; tgey. h no value on the title; they were icontente w1t poflefiiiig the thing. And poflefs it they did, 1even without a (landing army z-(what cgnfi e P? fironger proof of the fecurity of their p0 c :31} And yet by a policy finnlar to this throug 1d, was the Roman world fubdued and held : a tat/oftts es an e compofed of above an hundred. languag . . + +. mailers ._.Yet their oi thole from ' ‘ of manners, difierent at [ u All the Greek flares, whether 1nEuropiozlAfia,ch:itheir u liberty and their own laws, SIC. Ln], 1y) , d 11313;icum, they and a- 1 When the Romans had {"ubdued lVIdCCflOD :m{ y ‘ by being were both formed into rcfpubltc}: by :1 (133:; of 3:013:02, n , ‘ u' ht fafe romt e ting \iz‘eflilliife' digginiwaini" agdivifion common among the Romans,fia{sE [" 1n the r from the accounts ofthe [straw/2: in fcripture. , l ‘ ould be " it was their pleafure that the Macedonians and 111W"5 "l" free; --It is a modeft word, this, [bee/é, for maflacring men, women and children. The writer would, if he could, hide from himfelf as well as from the public, the horror arifing from fuch a propofal, by couching it in general terms: 'tis no wonder he thought it a " fubject not fit for difcuflion " in his letter; though he recommends it as " a point " that fhould be the conflant object of the minif" ter's attention !"--But if Canada is ref'tored on " free; that it might beclear to all nations, that the arms oftheRo man " people did not bring flavery u on the free, but on the contrary , ‘ freedom to thofe who wereen aved. Nations in a {late of liberty, ‘ were to feel that liberty, {ate and perpetual under the patronage of the people of Rome : Thole that lived under kings, were to find their kings milder and julter at the infiant, out of refpeél to the Roman people; and if war {hould at any time take place between the Roman people and their kings, they were to believe that it mull end in viflory to the Romans and liberty to them- felves.--It was their pleafure alfo that Macedon Ihould be divided intofaur diflrz't'lr, and. each have a feparate council of its own: and that it {hould pay to the Roman people only [ya/fl/x trilure, ithad been ufed to pay to their kings. --Their determinations were of,the fame temper refpeflingI/bvrjum." E.] Livy, book 45, . ti " Remarks, p. so, 5|. this |