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Show ...--.-'- ‘ d." iv DEDICATION. this liberty, did not forne perfons perfwade. him to hope, it will be kindly and condefcendingly taken as a tellimony of that {incere gratitude and high veneration, DEDICATION. v her,which threatened to end in a deluge of blood ! When it was accounted criminal by many, even to lifp but a broken word or two in Herfavor, You, SIR, was not afham~ which not only he but his country has for ONE, who hath twice at leafi been a prin- ed or afraid to pour forth all Your unri- cipal Inflrument in the hand of GOD, of of Her infringed Rig/12‘s. favingGRE AT BR I TA I N and her Colonies from impending ruin: Once, by magnanimoully conduflinga jull and glorious war againfi foreign nations; and once, by pre- ferving peace in His own ;---by exerting Himfelf to prevent a fatal rupture between BR I T A I N and herColonies, and to re-eflab- lilh fuch an harmony as effentially con~ ccrns the welfare of both. ' AT the late mall impoi'tant CRISIS, You, SIR, whom no rewards could ever tempt, no frowns of the Great ever difinay, no dangers,difconce‘r'eg; and! tin Whom, for good and great in Yorrrfelf, no titles, however high, could polllbly add any new dignity or lullre; You, Great Sir, was not " alhan‘ic d of our chain'fir itinerant at {lairding {firth to plead the caufe of poor :‘SMERICA; " ' 1% to r em ere Ailiglle tone ~ W : "*7 ~ - vall'd eloquence in afirenuous vindication And, indeed, her caufe being fuppofed good, the more friendlefs She was, the more She needed, and in fome fort deferved, f0 powerful a patronage. For, furely, great talents were given for great occafions ; to be employed in defence of the innocent and feeble. GOD made fome men llrong, on purpofe to " bear the infirmities of the weak"; that they might be able to aflill and {upport them in their dangers and extremities; as You, SIR, have ever done, fince You adorned the BRITISH fenate; and particularly in a late ever-memorable irrilance. To You, Great SIR, under GOD and the KING, grateful AMERICA chiefly attributeC it, that She is now happily r‘ewin'flatet l in the enjoyment of her forrrier libert ies and , 5m» ; tho' She has, at the fame time, a very deep :lengli: of ' ' ' to otlnr,.;r«:at ani and, _, », <, ,- 34 .4,_._ 1 :11 .J 255977 |