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Show (9) (8) I anfwer,‘ difierenCC betWeen any of the cafes now fuppofed and who fays otherwife in the cafe of us, who Choofe that that original one which has given occafion to them. I lpeak this no otherwife than with the utmo‘fl reverence tifh liberty, which is the belt of liberty. Parliament ; but that in fome other cafes, this pofition may perhaps be more liable to quellion. Our North American colonies are as to their intntérnal Conflitution a very free people; as free as the Venetians, the Dutch or the Swifs, or perhaps more f0 than any of them. This proceeds from their Aifemblies being not only the nominal but the real reprefentatives, of thofe Whom they govern. Thefe are elected fairly, fully, and often. In thefe Affem'blies their liberty confills, exarft time when thefe rights begin in rifmg and grow- and it is certainly true and genuine. ing flates to take place,- and how many years, months But change the {cene a little; let any one colony be taxed and governed not by their own, but by the Affembly of another; What is then become of this their genuine liberty .9 It is gone and loll with their oWn' Alfembly. Let all the colonies be f0 {ubj‘eéled to the Aflembly of tome one among them. That won't mend the matter. Let us take a larger fcale. Snppofe this power over them be lodged in the Parliament of Ireland. We are never the nearer. Let us come towards heme. "ft" the kingdom of Ireland under the taxation and direction of the Britilh Parliament would they then think themfelves to be very free? For an anfwer to this queflion‘ enquire of one of that country. Place then the Irifh under one of the Alfemblies before mentioned. They Would be yet further from home and it might nOt be better with them. Let us take our own turn. Sup. pofe. Great Britain on the like conditions under the Parliament of Ireland; God forbid. I think that I have but one more point, before that I am at an end of my combination. Place over our heads with all thefe powers in their full force, the A'll'em'bly of Mallachu- fetts Bay, what then? I fancy that we {hould foon change a certain tune and fing another fong, than what we do now. Let me then mol't ferioufly quellion any man, from whofe breal't all candour and jul‘tice are not tetally banilhed, where is, as ‘to liberty or property, the difference and refpeét towards our own legiflature ; bur are we to conceive, or would it be a compliment to them or does any one mean to fay, that they are not men or that they are to be eXcepted and exempted from the reafons and the rules, which obtain and take place in the cafe ofall the tell of mankind 5' One of the long robe may perhaps demand the and days a'colony mull firl't be fettled. I may Venture to promife to refolye fuch an one, when he lhall tell me in how many years, months and days an Oaken plant grows to be an oalten tree, or a boy becomes a inan; which {cent to' be two much ealier quellions. The boundaries are feldom' nicely dillinguilhable, where nature proceeds with an even and conl‘lant hand. But it is not dillicult to anfw'er that the event: has already taken place, when near two millions of peopi}, are in full and peaceable poffefiion of fuclh a country as is occupied by our North-American colog mes. _ A . It may liltewife be‘ alked, Whether thefe laws are" applicable to all cafes of private property between man and man. But the full refolntion of this quellion might demand a Spanifh cafuil't or a book as big asa Volume of our {latntes at large. Any man may for me, amufe hiinfelf with trying the titles of nations to the territories and poffelhons, which they fill, enjoy and inhabit, as he Would do thofe between man and man, about a honfe and garden, and lhou'ld the procefs in the firlt cafe lait as long in proportion, as one does in the latter before {ome Conrts of Jullice in Europe; the defendants need not perhaps defire a longer or furer poffeflion. But may not thefe principles go too far, if carried to B the |