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Show < x6 > [ I7 ] room for improvement or alteration in {a It was. fpirit in the difcufiion of our did'erences, lanaified by time, by experience, by pub- which 'ufed to be the fource of our union. I will venture to ufe a bold VVe certainly did wrong in taxing them: language, my Lords; I will alliert, that if when the Stamp Act was repealed, we did we had uniformly adopted this equitable, wrong in laying; on other taxes, which adminillration in all our diftant provinces tended only to keep alive a claim, that was as far as circumftances would admit, it mifchievous, would have placed this country, for ages, at the head of human aftairs in every quar- VVe acted contrary to our own principles of liberty, and to the generous fentiments ter of the world. My Lords, this is no Vilionary or chimerical doctrine. The idea of our ibvereign, when we delired to have theirjudges dependent on the crown for of governing provinces and colonies by It ends infallibly in the their flipends as well as their continuance. It was equally unwile to with to make the governors independent of the people for their falaries. We ought to confider the ruin of the one country or the other, or in governors, not as {nies intrufl‘ed with the the Iafi degree of wretchednefs. management of our interef't, but as the noble a {yftem of policy as this. lic utility. force is vifionary and chimerical. The eXperiment has often been tried and it has never fucceeded. fervants If there is any truth, my Lords, in What impraé‘t'cable of the people, and ul‘clefs. recommended I have faid, and I molt firmly believe it Our ears ought to be open to every complaint againl‘t the all to be true 5 let me recommend it to you governors 3 but we ought not to fuller the to governors to complain of the people. refume that g€IICfOUS ‘l- and benevolent fpirit to them by us. \VC ch no 'have taken a di i‘erent method, to whi 1) {mall |