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Show 166 POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL Court Refidencies, SUBJECTS. 167 either at Philadelphia or New-York, or fome Other flmerimn imperial polition there cannot be a more palpable Ab- City.--Or if this Plan of Accommodation fhould be ill-digef'ted by home-born Eng/i men, lurdity. who, Iwill venture to affirm, would never fub- For if a Father is not able to govern his Son at the Ages of [4 or 16 Years, how can it be fuppolhl that he will be better able mit to fuch an Indignity ;---then, 5thly, TO prOpofe to feparate entirely from when the Youth is become a Man of full Age the Colonies, by declaring them to be afree Strength, and. the i'arent perhaps more feeble and decrepsd than he washerore? Beliiltz, it is 3 Fact, that the Colonies, from almot -nn End ofNort/z-Amcrz‘w to the other, have already re- and independent People, over whom we lay no Claim; and then by offering to guarantee this" Freedom and Independence againfi: all foreign Invaders whomfoever. Now thefe being all the Plans which, in the Nature of Things, feem capable of being propofed, let us examine each of them in their Order. FIRST SCHEME. AND 1ft, as to that which recommends the qu'Eting all Things to go on as they have lately done, in Hopes that fome favourable Op- portunity may arife hereafter for recovering the Jurifdiétion, and vindicating the Honour ofthe Mother Country. THIS Propofal is very unhappy at firft fetting out; becaufe it takes that for granted, which Hifiory and Experience prove to be falfe. It fuppofes, that Colonies may become the more obedient, in Proportion as they are fufl‘ered to grow the more headl'trong, and to feel their own and Stature, volted from under the suriidietion ofihe Briliflz Legillature; each Home of Affembly hath already arrogared to itlelf a new Name, by lliling itliell" an House or COMMONS; in Confequence Of WillCi] Stile and Title, they have already decrared, that the Britt/1': Hou e of Commons ineither hath, not ought to have, any Right to intermeddle in their Concerns. Now, afterihey have advanced thus far alreadytwhat Rhetoric would you ufe for calling thele Revolters bar it? And is it at all probable, that the Provincial Alieinbiies would be induced by the Force of Oratory to renounce their own Importance, and to acknowledge that to be aCrzmr, which both they, and the PeOple whom they reprel‘ent, glory in as their Birth~r1ght and unalienable Prerogative P The Man that can luppofe thefe Things, mult haVe a molt extraordi- nary Opinion of his own Eloquence. Strength and Independence; than which Supi pofitiOn in the Vigour of Health and L 4 _ -Bi 1‘ |