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Show < m ) (II) the {tudy of hifiory. Can you find in the long fuccefhon of ages, in the whole ex- tent of human affairs, a tingle inf'tance, Where diftant provinces have been pre- vitation at the greatelt diftances. It proves to a demonftration that you may have good fubje-f'is in the remotef't corners of ferved in {o flourilhing a Rate, and kept at the fame time in fuch due fuhjeétion to the earth, if you will but treat them with If you have any kindnefs and equity. doubts of the truth of this kind of reafon- their mother country? My Lords, there is ing, the experience we have had of a difl‘e- no infiance; the cafe never exified before. rent leind will entirely remove them. It is perhaps the molt fingular phaeno- menon in all civil hiftory; and the caufe of it well deferves your ferious confidera- tion. The true caufe is, that a mother country never exified before, who placed her natives and her colonies on the fame equal footing; and joined with them in fairly carrying on one common intereft. The good genius of our country had led us to the fimple and happy method of go- verning freemen, which I have endeavoured to defcribe. Our miniflers received it from their predeceflors, and for fume time continued to obferve it ; but without know- ing its value. At length, prefuming on their own Wifdom, and the quiet dilpofi- You ought to confider this, my Lords, not them- tion of the Americans, they flattered as a mere hiltorical fer-ft, but as a molt important and invaluable difcovery. It en- advantages felves that we might reap great larges our ideas of the power and energy caufe of it. of good government beyond all former ex- s have hour to treat them as other nation they thought fit to treat their colonies,- amples; and fhews that it can act like grar ita ti on the from their profperity by der'troying They chofc in an unlucky threatened and they taxed them. C 2 I do |
