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Show (6°) (.61) There is good room for Others to go beyond, and ell As For thofe who refute, or impede law and jut-lice for pecially for a {late Which has fuch advantages at; blood, let them be well aware, that they don't thereby Great Britain. bring it on their own heads, or warrant private men to be themfelves their own avengers. However the Whole will However, what degree of advantage the nature of things will admit of, on this head, or how to attain thereto," are not quefliens of this prefent inl‘tant. I have faid thus much, led to it by my fuhjeé‘t, together with the interelt of the Public be received in America as a declaration of war, and de- pend upon the fame iflhe. It mult be by force andconquelt if they fubmit. It is probably not a month or a year, that will finally determine this afl'air. The flame may break out immediately, or the fire may {mother until fonte fatal opportunity of our being engaged in a foreign war, or fome other fuch occalion. The authors of thefe meafures no doubt expect that the removal of the cuflom-houfe and the fut-penfion of the trade of Bolton will bring thefe people on their knees, and force them to fubmit to the rett of ~ur tneafures. It therein, and the neceflity, which 1 am perhtaded that my country is, at this time under, of finding, and carrying into execution, fome fuel) great, general, 'and falutary meafure. Happy will be the hand, that fliall in the firlt place prevent the ruin, whereon we are now running. W'e mull: begin there. That is the objtft directly before us. Let us next enlarge the trade of' Ireland and America. This will do agreat deal. ' _1 may withal lead us towards a more univerfal plan, with which itcannot, at the fame time but; been well informed and inl‘truftexl, and ought to have coincide. been {0 before they proceeded to far. It will, withal be well, that this double be~ is evident, that this is their idea. They might have 'l‘hey may ne- nefitof thefe two parts of our country, went hand in verthelefs find theml‘elves much mittaken in the event, hand together. however forward they are to hazard, on their opinion, the The prefent Rate of Ireland makes it ablolutely and imn'tetiiately neceiTary, for the one, and the interefi of Great Britain, requires it for both. ' I don't enter into particulars concerning the flopping up the port of Bolton, or the new laws given to Mafiachufetts Bay." However I mull obferve, that the alteration of their charter, and of their civil government IS not temporary, like the other provifions, but perpetual. The breaking of charters, is making the Worlt war upon mankind. "It involves the intiohetir, and thofe yet unhorn.' Every thing depends with men on their confiitution of government. Such a meafure is therefore wantonly laying wafle the territories of the earth, and, I {peak it with reverence, but it ts even forbidding Providence itfelt‘to make mankind happy thereon, unlefs helhall for the undoing the works welfare and profperity of their country. der, It is no won- that fume men cannot, e ten at the dtltance of America, bear a Democratical conltitution. llut they ought to know the hill'ory ol'the world better than to be ignorant of the {l'rength and ibrce of inch 21 lornt of government, and how l'crenuoully, and almoll wouderi'ully, people living; under one, ll we ion‘rettmes exerted theinfilves, in delence of their rights and lll)CI‘- ties, and how fatally it has ended with many a man and many a flare, who have entered into quarrels, wars and contelts with them. ‘ Some fay, that all the contradié‘tion and Opp-OllUOBL of. America, originates from home, and that it IS only "fulll‘eafonable and illjudging men. perform immediate miracles. and fufpend or counteract his own laws of the f'aétio i of England, which catches there. Nothing, perhaps, tel'tiliesa greater ignorance of thetrue flare of that Country, than {nth a notion. "(hat is all the fpirit of patriotifin. or oi'li‘oerty, now left tn Eng nature, Which is furely not to be Iuppofed or expected. land, more than the laliz that? ofan expiring lamp? ' ' lt 1s |