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Show (29) (23) The power and in; want their {hare therein. However, the courage of fluence of Governors, and other civil officers apt: pointed from hence, mull on an open rupture have an end. Our authority would perhaps then extend our countrymen was never yet queliioned; but may as are to be found among them. little further, than where it was enforced by our own troops. ‘ ‘ 4 ‘ A ' But what are an untrained and undifciplined multitude ? Could not an experienced ofiicer, 'with' a few regular regiments, do what he would in America ? I they always unite, and employ it aggainlt our common enemies, and neyer be encamped, or embattled againfl: one another, either in America, or any where elfe. But we are mailers at fea, and where ever our {hips can come, We may do, whatever a fleet can. Very true ; but it cannot fail all over North America. It is (aid, that Marlhal Saxe had, before the declaration of Were every where unfuccefsful.' The plains of Flanders were tatten'd with fome of the belt blood of Brie the lal't war but one, and at the time of our army being in Germany, conceived adefign to have landed on our coalt, With ten thoufand men, and to have tried the fortune of a brisk march to London. He tain, and of Ireland. did not find this fo eafy to execute, as he thought For. anfwer, that a difi'erent fiory may be told. In the war before the laft, our meafures‘ direéted at home, our government was lhaken almoit to the foundation, by a» rebellion contemptiL He was moit happily dilappointed. ble in its beginning. object. No one can tell the confequence, had he fueceeded. The prefent is a very different matter. No immediate impreflion upon the town of Bolton, Were we more fortunate in our attempt by {ea againl‘t Pondicherry, or that afterwards againfl: Port l'Orient 5' But the people of New England, maintained at that time, the honour of our: arms. It is well known, that they carried on, with their own counfels, and with their own foldiéry, and under the command of one of their own planters, againlt Cape Breton and Louisbourg, an expedition, the event of which need not now be told. we did not begin in a much better manner the lad war. But there was an nor poliellion taken of it, by means of a fleet, nor the fame circumfiance with regard to any other towns of America, liable thereto, by their lituation, will carry the command of that whole continent, or force it to fubmit to meafures fo univerlally ag-aintt their bent and inclination. I It may, however, he faid, that this is not the plan. am unwilling to call to mind our firft campaigns in Germany, our fituation and treaty of Cloller-Seven, The charter of the town of Bolton is to be changed, the fate of Minorca, or the hifiories of Bradock, and very ltrongelt fort to be enforced againlt them. _ The moving mountain is, according to the imagination of Abercrombic. But who were at that time the firlt to Item the tide of our ill fortune? Was not it an and their trade lul‘pended, and other meafures of the Dr. Swift, to hang over them, and the inn not to American militia, who, commanded by Sir William ihine, northe rain, or the‘dew to tall on them, until Johnfon, a gentleman at that time of the country, they are brought to fubmiflion, and made, to the tel‘c met, fought, and beat the French and Indians, under of America, an example, of the danger of retraé‘to- Monfieur Dieskau, and made prifoner their com- rinefs and difobedience, to the mother country; all mander ? But what wonders were afterwards done by which we think may, and will, with time be compafled and accompliflied. our people properly conducted and direfted? It is very true, and I am fure, thatI have'no inclination to deprecxate them But neither did thofe of America, This is indeed, as to the queltion of force, the true point of the matter ; I mean, whit/.2 will at lalta, an- . want . . . |
