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132 ALBANY PAPERS continual. [Az B.T.] PLAN/or two IVcflorzzCo/o m'ar. 133 all included in the Britifh empire, which hfis only extended itfelf by their means; and t 1e {trength and wealth of the parts is. the {trengti and wealth of the whole 5 what imports it 1:0 PLA N for felt/Mg two I/Vg/i'em Colom'er in Nort h America, wit/J Reafonsjor :69 Plan, 1 754. 9". the general (late, whether a merchant, a fmlt 5 or a hatter, grow rich in Old or New Eng/mfg]. and if through increafe of people, two fm1t s are wanted for one employed before, why may not the new fmith be allowed to live and thrive HE great country back of the Apalzzc/Jzor z mountains, on both fides the O/Jz'o, and between that river and the lakes; is now well known both to the Englifh and French, to be one of the in the new country, as well as the old one 1n the old? In fine, why fliould the countenance of a {late be partially afforded to its people, unlefs 1: be moft in favour of thofe who have molt merit . and, if there be any difference, thofe who have mof'r contributed to enlarge Brztam s empire and commerce, increafe her ftrength, herwealth, and ‘ Extrafl of a Memorial Jra'wn up .5} Ordtr of, and pref/Enter! ‘ to 171': the numbers of her people, at. the rifque of their Royal Higbnlfi the Duke if Cumberland, r756, by ‘ T. Pownall. own lives and private fortunes, in new and ftrange countries, methinks ought rather to expect fomc preference. With the greatefl: refpeét and eiteem, I have the honour to be Your Excellency's molt obedient, and humble Servant, B. FRANKLIN. ‘ In other parts of our frontier. that are not the ihould be thought of, of which nothing can be more effectual than a barrier colony: but even this cannot . . . . . . . . . . . . . into execution and effect, withoube carried t the previous meafure of immediate re‘ fidence and country of Indium, fome other {pecies of barrier flan-QAIAAA "Y'T""'l"l"" ‘ ‘, u. "w Yllflll.‘ w' m; k fineflt [For the occafion which produced this plan, fee what fol. lows. I apprehend it was given to Govern Pownall, 1754, for the purpofe of being inferred in his memorior al; but this point of anecdote I cannot fufliciently afcerrain. entrepo‘tr in the country between us and the enemy . . . . . . . . . All mankind mull know that no body of men, whether as an army, or as an emigration of colonifl march from one country to another, through an inhofpi s, can table wildernefs, without magazines; nor with any fafety, withoutpofls communicating among each other by practicable roads, to which to retire in cafe of accidents, repulfe, or delay. ' It is a fact which experience evinces the truth of, have always been able to outfettle the hem; andhav that we e driven the Indian: out of the country more by fettling than fightin g; and that whenever our fettlements have been wifely and completely made, the Franco neither by themfel ves, nor their dogs of war, the Indium, have been able to remove us. It is upon this faét _Ifound the propriety of the meafure of {ettlin g a barrier colony mthofe parts of our frontiers, wool: are m to: iwmodiatt rt‘ firm" |
