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Show IOO POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL SUBJECTS. mi Affections of the Indians, is particularly to be 'iOY myfelf,--Of letting every man fee with commended; for thefe were the Things, as you jufily obferved,4which involved us in" the molt 'his own Eyes, and act according to his Own bloody and expenlive War that ever was known; and thefe, by being repeated, will f'timulate the dulge every Man in, as far as ever is confif'tent poor injured Savages to redrefs their Wrongs, me For indeed Governments there mufi be oflo ion Kind or other; and Peace and Subordinat and retaliate the Injury as foon as they can, by fome Means or other. You did therefore ex- ceedingly right, in manifel'ting the utmol't Abhorrence and Deteitation of all fuch Praetices. BUT of late I cannot fay, that I receive the fame Satisfaction from your Correfpondence: You, and your Countrymen', certainly are difcontented to a great Degree; but whether your Difcontent arifes from a Delire of Change, and of making Innovations in your Form of Government, or from a mii'taken Not-ion, that we are making Innovations in-it, is hard" to-fay. GIVE me Leave, therefore, to expofiulare with you, on this flrange Alteration in your Conduct.» You indeed talk loudly 0E Chains, and exelaim vehemently againfi Slavery':--- But furely you do not fufpeé‘t, thatI can entertain the molt diliant Willi of making any Man a Slave, much lefs my own Brother's Son, and my next of Kin‘.- So far from it, that whether I can make you a Convert to my Way ofthinkmg or not, I lhall {till aét by you as my neareft Relation; being always delirous of allowing that Liberty to others, which I hope ever to enJOY Judgment :---This I-fay, I would willingly iny. with gooerOVernment, and the public Safet would are to be preferved; otherwile, there in be no fuch Thing as true Liberty fublit'ting the World. IN ‘Purfuance therefore of this rational Plan young of Liberty, give me Leave to afk you, to me Man, What is .itiyou mean by repeating oft/re Confli{0 often in everyLetter, The spirit approve of this lution? I-own, _I do not much gue and in‘I'hrafe, becaufe its Meaning is fova be made to determinate; and becaufe it may or bad. And Ierve all Purpofes.,,.alike, good , :I‘hat indeed it has been-my coni'tantRemark Arguments when Men were at a Lofs for folid cal Dilputes, and Matters of Fa&, in their politi of the Conthey then hadRecou-rle to the Spirit and the only I‘titution as to their lai't Shift, for Ex- Thing they had to fay. An zlmerican to the Splrlt ample now infifis, That according t not to be of the Englzylz Conl'titution, he ough given either by taxed without his own Confent, in Parliament himfelf, or by a Reprei‘entative he not 2 And ‘-Chofen by himl‘elf. Why ought ny Worfis, doth the Conltitution fay in IQ ma t at "V‘mlllllllllm » " _ |