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Show ( 62 ) ( 63 ) Cans to acknowledge the authority of the King, 'into the Exchequer, and accounted for in Far. is no furrender of their property to the Kung: liament. , This will remove the danger appre- whereas if they acknowledged the authority of hended, and prevent thofe lover: of flawry, Parliament, who do exercife the right of taxation over the People when reprefented, it would the Americans, from making, at any future pe- riod, the Crown of England arbitrary. be, Without their being reprefented, a furrender of their property to Parliament; and a forging of chains for thetnfelves. Under the acknowledged authority, then of the Crown, the Ame- ricans {till preferve their conftttutional Rights 2" under the required acknowledged authority of Parliament, they would lofe them; and this is the reafon that the Americans acknowledge the one, and will never acknowledge the other. Upon the whole, when I perceive a war, and fuch a war too, f0 weakly fupported, and yet fo violently purlhed; when Ifind the moft elevated of the Church, preaching and publifhing to the world pafiive obedience and non-refittance to the fupremacy of Law *, whether that Law be right or wrong, whether it be ‘ TheArchbilhop of York fays, " the foundation of legal free« But it is feared, that fome future King, not his prefent Majeity, for he has not a with to go- dorn, is the firpremag‘ qf/a-w." This I fuppofe is an apology for his Grace's allegiame to the @ebecu'lfi, and for his mak- ing this aét a pattern for cramming Bifhopricks down the Throats vern but through his Parliaments, may, upon requifition to his faithful American lubjeéts, of the Americans, by the help of the Civil Power, that is, on the procure fuch large grants of money, 'as (hall enable him to govern without Parliaments, Indeed, if we are to judge of what America may do, by what it has done, upon fucnlike occalions, this argument is not Without its points of Bayonets. " it wants no argument to prove that underthe lafl Freedom cannot " fubfilt." This is a diftitiction without a difference; for when Law is contrary to the natural or civil rights of mankind, it is Force, and the worfi of all fin-r: .- for it is as " a wolf in {heep's cloathing," and cometh unawares, " like a thief in the night. force; and therefore, to prevent fuch generofity from being hereafter hurtful to this country, (and there cannot be a better time for it, as it is the objefl: of his prefent Majeity to maintain the fupremac‘y of Parliament,) let-an ,A& be patTed, (if it be not too late) declaring that all money obtained from the Colonies .by rcquifition from the Crown, {hall be carried into See his Sermon, pag. 19 and pag. 24. His Lordfhip fays too, " As there are in the nature of things, " but two forts of Government; that of Law, and that of Force; See p. 19 of the above fermon. Again, his Lordihip fays, " Thefe indeed" (that is " Def- " potifm and Anarchy) have ufually germ togetbcr, for no Anar" chy ever prevailed, which did not ma' in Defpotifm." This is a Bull, but an Irifh one; and not a Popilh Bull. lfwhere Anarchy prevails Defpotifm em/r, Anarchy and Defpotifm cannot ufually go togfllth See p. 20. His Grace will excufe the Attention I have paid him in the courfe ofmy obfervations : but as lam unfortunately one of thofe Parties who have (according to him) " no Principle belonging " to them," and are " in the lafl Rage of political Depravity," I was willing to examine, a little, his Lordfhip's principles; that if I approved them, I might adopt them. |