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Show :4 COMMON COMMON SENSE. SENSE. a; wherefore the afl'ertion, if true, turns to her reproach ;but rent or morher country appiied to England only, as being it happens not in be true. or only partly to, and the plrrafe falfe, felfilh, narrow and ugenerous. arm: or morbrr country hath been jefuitically adopted by the king and his parali'rs. with a low papiflicrrl tlefign of gaining an unfair bias on the. crednloua weakntfs -l our y minds. Europe. and not lingered, is the parrot countr for em alt the. been hath Wrrrid new This a. Americ of the perlccuted lovers of Civil and reigiout iber.y ilt‘m wary part of Europe. Hither have they fl -1. not from the tender embraces of the mother, bur in in he CriteTrt of the mantle: ; and it is to la. r‘iue nth, g‘attd,1h4t that lame tyranny which drove the firfl emigrants {tent home, put- . But admitting, that we were all of Eng‘ifh defcent, what does it amount to PNothing. Britain, being now an ripen/I enemy, extii‘guzflles every o‘her name and tit c : And to fay that reconciliation l8 our duty, is trrrly fa clear! The ‘5' it king of England, of the preferrt lirr (VVrlliam thc'Cttn- quersr) was a Frenchman, and half the peers ol England are rte cendmts from the fame crrurrrry ; wherefore bv the fame mithed of maturing, Eng'aad ought to be governed by France. Much hath been {aid about the united firength of Bri- tain and the cislrmies, that in corjuriétinn they might bid (ues their defeendanis fiill. In this extenfiye quarter of the globe, we forget the nar- row limits of three hurrd ed and fixty mi as ('he extent of England) and carry our friendfhip on a larger {cale ; we claim brotherhood with every European chrtlfian, and tri‘ umph in the generefiiy of the lentimcnr. on! we gradati regular what by It is pleafant to obfctve out enlarge we as ce, prejudi local of force the nt {urmou acquaintance with the world. A man barn in any town defiance to the world. But this is mere pretumption; the fate of War is u icer'ain, neither do the exp'eflinns mean any thing ; lot this continent wrru‘rd nevi-r Mfr-r l‘iclf to be drained of inhabitants, to t'uppori the Britifh arms in either Afia, Af.ica or Europe. Befides, what have we to (la with {etting the world at defiarice ? Our plan is Commerce, and that, well attended to, will [come us the peace and inendfhip of all Europe I in Eng‘and divided into parifltes. will naturally afli‘ciate mot't With his fellow parifhrrneis (becarrfe their interefls in many cales will be common) and dii‘tinguifl) him by the becaule, it is the interei't of all Europe to have America a. free part Her trade will be always a proteaion, and her barrenneta of gold and (river will fecure her from invaders. name of neighbour ; it he meet him but a few miles from home, he drops the narrowidea of a fireet, and {alutes him by the name of town man; if he travel out of the county,and (hear, a [tingle advantage this Continent can reap, by being; meet him in any orher, he forgets the minor divifions of a {ing‘e advantage is derived. fir‘eet and town, and calls him countryman, i. e. «wiry-man ; but if in their foreign exeurfinns they would disclaim in .France or any nther part of Europe their local remembrance would be enlarged into that of [ingli/lrmen. And by a jolt parity of reafoning, all European: meeting in America, or any o‘her quarter of the globe, are wumrymen ;for bug and, Holland, Germany, or Sweeden, when compared with the whole, hand in the fame places on the larger ieale, whirlt the dtvrfions of Erect, town, and county do on the (mallet ones gdifiinaions too limited for continental minds. Not One thitd ofthe inhabitants, even of this provirce, are of Englrfli defcent. Wherefore I teprubate the phrate of parent I challenge the warmefl, advocue for reconciliation to Count-fled with Great Britain. I repeat the challenge, not Our corn will fetch its price in any market in Europe, and our imported goods mutt be paid in buy them where we will. But the injuries and difadvanrages we {uftain by that con; neé'tinn, are without number; and our duty to mankind at large, as well as to ourfelve‘s, iottruét us to renounce the al‘iance: 3 Carrie, any fobmiflion to, or dependence on Gear Britain, tends direfily to involve this continent in European Wars and quarrels 92nd fets us at variance with ira- lions, who worrldrrthcrwiie leek our friendthip, and againfl whom. We havertcirhcr anger nor complaint, As Europe is our market for trade, we ought rot rm no partialcirn.‘ Mellon with any partofir. it is the true irrieret't ol Arne~ iica |