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Show (4‘) (5) they could call their own, of all that they have thus inherited earned or acquired ; the very enormity, the well lsnoxvn in our language the principles of Whigs ; evil and unnatural conlequences of fuch a propofition would of themfelves fufficiently thew its abfurdity, iwealtnefs and uureafonablenefs. A . . any thing belonging to the charafter ; who have ' "Thefe are all either primarily, eftenttal, inherent aé‘ted all the meafures and contradicted all the pi inci» rights of human nature, or fuch asado With refpeét .to perfons in the fituation before delcribed, neceffarily flow and follow from them. Thofe Were‘conferred upon them by the great Author of their being when he was pleafed to endow them With the faculties of men, with the perception of good and CVll, with the means of felf-prefervation and {elf-defence, With the organs of reafon and of .lpeecli, and With a capaCity to aflociate thenifelves for their mutual protection and ples that ever did honour to the name; but I mean of fupport. They are common to all mankind; they fubfill at all times, in all regions and all climates; in Turkey, in Spain, in France, in Old England and in New, in Europe and America; whenever and Wherever a number of men are found to be the obyeéts of them, I don't mean that they are in all thefe places always, or at this time pofielled and enjoyed as they ought to be. But they are to anfwer for that, who do‘fo commonly employ to the enllaving and oppreihng of mankind the powers, which thefe eutruft only for their protet‘tion and defence. However this is only abufe,‘ violence and injuftice; the right neverthelefs fubfifls‘and remains. It is not on this fubjeét necefiary to enter into along and minute detail of reafoning. 'l‘hefe principles are with us common and public,- they are founded‘on the good, the welfare and the happinefs of inanltmd. They were the principles of our anceliors, of our grandfathers and of our fathers ; they may perhaps .1103 be at prefent in their lull vigour; however, I "UPC, that they are not yet fo worn out or loft from among us, but that they l‘till remain the principles of the nation. They are to defcribe them by a worfi ‘ ' whereby I don't hOWCVer mean of certain modern Whigs, who feem more fond of the word, than of perhaps at one time or other of their lives counterWhigs before the Revolution and at the time of it; Imean the principles which fuch men as Mr. Locke , Lord Molefworth and Mr. Trenchard maintained with their pens, Mr. Hampden and Lord John Ruffel with their blood and Mr. Algernon Sydney with both names, which muft furely by all Englilhmen ever be revered, as thofe of fome of the firll among men. But let me add, that they are not only the princ iples of fpeculative {indents in their clofets, or of great but unfortunate men. Whom their zeal and virtue have led to martyrdom for the liberties of their count ry and the welfare of mankind; but that they are likeWife the real principles of our prefent actual gover n- ment, the principles of the revolution, and thofe on which are eflablilhed the throne of the King and the fettlement oftheillultrious family now reigning over us. On the fame principles reli, both in general many rights of the Americans, and in particular the right now before us. ' .Thefe are hereby involved and interWoven with our highefl and moi't facred conce rns; We cannot lift up our hands to take them away without forfeiting our national charac‘ier, witho ut renouncing the tenets and maxims whereon we have, on our molt important and critical occalions, ever ac‘tcd as a people, and without declaring that we claim a right to refifl and oppofe all thofe who opprefs us ourfel ves, and at the fame time to tramp.e upon and tyrannize over all others, where We hope that we have the power to do it with impunity, But it may be fttid, that thefe are indee d in them- fc?li'es very true and commendable opinions, but that they we are |