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Show (16) g 17 > If you pleafc, we will now defcend to form: farther particularr, relative to our late unhappy and prefent joyful circumfiances, in order to excite our thankfulnefs to God, for f0 memo- rable a deliverance. _ This continent, from Canada to Florida, and theWei‘t-India Iflands, molt of them at leaft, have exhibited a difinal mixed {cene of murmuring, defpondence, tumult and outrage; courts ofjuiiice {hut up, with cuilorn-houfes and ports ; private jealoufies and animofities, evil furmifings, whifperings and back-bitings, mutual reproaches, open railing, and many other evils, lince the time in which the grie- vous aé‘t aforefaid was to have taken place. Almol't every Britilh American, as was before obferved, confidered it as an iiifracliori oftheir rights, or their dearly purchafed privileges, call them which you will; and the fad eatnefl: of fuch a galling yoke to be laid on our necks, already fomewhat fore by preceding grievances, as neither we nor our Fathers were able to bear; or rather, as being itfelf fuch a yoke, and likely to grow heavier by length of time, without any increafe, either of ability or patience to endure it. The uneafinefs was, there- thrcn. E‘v‘en oul'bough: 1Vegr0flao€r apparently t‘hared in the common dillrefs : For which one cannot cafily account, except by fuppofing that; even fome of them law, that if 5/36 at? took place, their mailers might foon be too poor to provide them irritable food and raiment; and thought it. Would be more ignominious and wretched to be triefi‘rvantr ofj/értram‘r, than of free-men. But to return. The general difcontent Open rated very differently upon the minds of different: peeple, according to the diverfity of their natural tempers and conltitutions, their education, religious principles, or the prudential maximfs which they had (fpoufed. Some at once grew melancholy, fitting down in a kind of lethargic, dull defparation of relief, by any means what~ ever. Others were thrown into a fort of corn ilernarion, not unlike to a phrenzy occafioned by a raging fever; being ready to do any thing or every thing, to obtain relief; but yet, unhap» pily, not knowing what, when, Where, how; nor having any two rational and confillent ideas 21' boo the matter; fearce more than a perfon in a delirium has of the nature of, or proper method of curing the fever, which is the caufe of his madnefs. Seine few were, I believe, upon the principles ofw Sibthorp, Manwaring, Filmer, and fore, juf‘tly great and univerfal, except, perhaps, among a few individuals, who either did not attend to confequences, or who expec‘ ted to find their private account in the public calamity, by exercifing the gainful, tho' invi- dious, and not very reputable office of trifle-ma]: ten over their groaning countrymen and bre- that goodly tribe, determined to go no farther in order to obtain redrefs, than in the way of pee thren ; this kind, yeethought it extremely iron-prudent Eition and remonllrance; andthis, even tho' they had been lure of. iiiccels in form- hardy enter? prize. Others, who'had no religiousfcrUples of ‘ I)- w, and |