Common sense: addressed to the inhabitants of America, on the following interesting subjects. I. Of the origin and design of government in general, with concise remarks on the English constitution. II. Of monarchy and hereditary succession. III. Thoughts on the present state of American affairs. IV. Of the present ability of America, with some miscellaneous reflections. A new edition, with several additions in the body of the work. To which is added an appendix; together with an address to the people called Quakers. N.B. The new addition here given increases the work upwards of one third.

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APPENDIX. '52, APPENDIX. The prefent Rate of America is truly alarming to every man who is capable of reflexion. Without law, without government, without any other mode of power than what is founded on, and granted by courtefy. Held together by an unexampled concurrence of fentiment, which, is neverthelefs {object to change, and which, every fecret enemy is endeavoring to diflolve. Our preient condition, is, legiflation without law; wifdom without a plan; a conflitution without a name ; and, what is firangely aflonifhing, perfefi the Continrnt diurde thereon. 5; Do they «‘alte within their View, all the various orders of inc-i whole fittiation and Cite Cumflancee, as Wei! as their own, are 5"» he 1 inflicted therein. Do they put thcr'ufclves in the pit cc of the fuffiret Whore all is already gone, and of the (older. who hath quit- ted all for the defence of his Cornea-V. If their iil judged moderation be fuited to their own private fituaticns only, regardlefs of others, the event will convince them, that " they The inflame is Ire reckoning without their Hofl." Put us, fays fume, on the footing we were on in fixty- without a precedent; the cafe never exifled before; and three: To which I aolwer, the requef't is not new in the Independance contending for dependance. who can tell what may be the eventt' The property of no man is fecure in the prefent unhraced fyflem of things. The mind of the multitude is left at random, and feeing no fixed objeEt before them, they purfue fuch as fancy or opinion fiarts, Nothing is criminal; there is no fuch thing as treas (on; wherefore, every one thinks himfelf at liberty to :61 as he pleafes. The Tories dared not have aiTembled offenfively, had they known that their lives, by that aét, were forfeited to the laws ofthe Rate. A line ofdifiinflion fhould be drawn, between, Englifh foldiers taken in battle, and inhabitants of America taken in arms. The firfi are pri- foners, but the latter traitors. The one forfeits his liberty, the other his head. Notwithfianding our wi(dom, there is a vifible feeblenefs in fome of our proceedings which gives encouragement to dtfl'entions. The Continental Belt is too lofely buckled, And if {amething is not done in time, it will be too late to do any thing, and we {hall fall into a Rate, in which, neither Reconciliation nor Indrpmdarire will be practicable. The king and his worthlefs adherents are got at their old game ofdividingthe Continent, and there are not wanting among an, Printers. who will be holy in fpreading {pt-cirrus faltehoods. The artful and hypocritical letter which appeared a few months ago in two of the New-York papers, and likewife in two others, is an evidence that there are men who want either judgment or honcfiy. It is eafy getting into holes and corners and talking ofreconciliation: But do fuch men ferioufly covnlider, how diffi- cult $913905; and how dangerous it may prove, {hould ' ' ' ' the power of Britain to Comply with. neither will {he propofc it i but ifit were, and even {ho'uld be granted, I afk, as a reafonable queflion, By what means is fueh a corrupt and faithlefs court to be kept to its engagements 1‘ Another parliament, nay, even the prefer", may hereafter repeal the Obligation, on the pretence, of its being violently obtained, or unwifely granted; and in that eats, Where is our rcdrefs ?-No going to law with nations; cannon are the barriflers of Crown; and the tword, not ofjufiice, but of war, decides the fuit. To beon the fooung of fixty three, it is not fuflicrent, that the laws only be put on the fame (late, but, thatour circomltances, likewife, be put on the fame fiate, Our burnt and dcflroyed towns repaired or built up, our private iofies made good, our public debts (contract- ed for drience) tiilcharged; otherwife, we (hail be millions I'O-Tc than we were at that enviabte period. Sucha re- gueit, had it been complied with a year ago. would have won the heart and foul or the Continent-mot now it is too late, " The Ru'nicon is paired." Befides, the taking up arms, merely to enforce the repeal of a pecuniary law, items as unwarrantable by the divine law, and as repugnant to human feelings, as the taking up arms to enforce obedience thereto. The object, on either (iris, doth mtjuflii'y the means; for the lives of men are too valuable to be caf't away on [rich trifles. it is the vialenc: which is done and thwart-tied to our perfons; the de- fil'udiou of our property by an armed force; the envafion of our country by fire and (word, which confcientioufly qualifies, the ufe of arms; And the, Mint, in which foes; m U