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Show CANADA PAMPIILET. [Az B.T.] War in Amer. notfirColonies alone. 167 lonies ; in the courfe of this war, and indeed before it,has dif'turbed and vexedeven the beftand {troug- ef‘t of them ; has found means to murder thoufands of their people, and unfettle a great part of their country. Much more able Wlll it be to flarve the growth of an infant fettlement. _ Canada has alto found means to make this nation fpend two or a war for the protection of our commerce, and to fecure the exportation of our manufactures; would it be fair to reprefent fuch a war, merely as blood and treafure fpent in the caufe of the weavers of Yorkfhire, Norwich, or the Weft; the cutlets of Sheffield, or the button-makers of Birmin - ham? I hope it will appear before Iend thefe fheets, that if ever there was a national war, this is truly fuch a one: a war in which the interefl; of the whole nation is directly and fundamentally concerned-Thole who would be thought deeply {killed in human nature, affect to difcover felfinterei'ted views every where at the bottom of the fairei‘r, the molt generous condué‘t. Sufpicions 166 three millions a year in America 5 and a people, how fmall foever, that in their prefent-fituation, can do this as often as we have a war With them, is methinks, " an enemy to be apprehended. Our North American colonies are to be confi- dered as the frontier of Me Britz'f'b empire on that tide. The frontier of any dominion being'attack- ed, it becomes not merely "the 'caufe' of the eople immediately affeéted, (the inhabitants of that frontier) but properly " the caufe of the whole body. Where the frontier‘people owe and pay obedience, there they have a right to. look for roteétion: No political propofition is .better ef'tablifhed than this. It is therefore anldl'OuS to reprefent the " blood and treafure" fpentnin this war, as fpent in " the caufe of the colonies . only; and that they are " abfurd and ungrateful if they think we have done nothing, unlefs we " make " conquefts for them," and reduce Canada to gratify their " vain ambition," 8pc. It will not be a conqueft for r/Jcm, nor gratify any vain am- bition of theirs. It will be a conqueit for the whole; and all our people will, in the increaie of trade, and the cafe oftaxes, find the advantage of it.-Should we be obliged at any time to make a war 3 and charges of this kind, meet with ready recep- tion and belief in the minds even of the multitude ; and therefore lefs acutenefs and addrefs than the Remarker is poffeffed of, would be futlicient to perfuade the nation generally, that all the zeal and fpirit manifef'ted and exerted by the colonies in this war, was only in " their own caufe," to " make conquef'ts for themfelves," to engage us _to make more for them, to gratify their own " vain ambition." But thould they now ‘ humbly addrefs the ( mother country in the terms and the fentiments of the Remarker ; return her their grateful ac;knowledgments for the blood and treafure {he had fpent in " their caufe;" confefs that enough I t had been done " for them ;" allow that " Eng" l‘ifh forts raifed in proper paffes, will, with the " wifdom and vigour of her adminiftration " be a ‘ A‘ fuflicienc |
