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Show 192 CANADA PAMPIILET. difi'erent forms of government, different laws, different interefis, and fome of them dittcrent relia gious perfuafions and diflEreiit manners.--Their jealoufy of each other is {0 great, that however necelT-ary an union of the colonies has long> been, for their common defence and {eeurity againft their enemies, and how fenfible foever each colony has been of that neceflity; yet they have never been able to efieét fuch an union among themfelves; il‘ nor even to agree in reqiielting the mother coun- al"! l ,V I" il" ..i .l 1 try to eitablith it for them. Nothing but the immediate command of the crown has been able to reduce even the imperfect union, but lately feen ' , w‘ "7V7": mm ‘,._ 5i; ‘ W'TMW TTITFTWFPW‘ I , l. I there, of the forces offomecolonies. If they could not agree to unite for their defence againft the .French and Indians, who were perpetually harafling their fettlements, burning their villages, [Az B.T.] (70/012er not dangerous toG.Brz'ta z'Iz. 193 union is impoflible, I mean, With out t grievous tyranny and Oppreflion. Peotil: rvlitloifd: have property in a country which they may lofe and prrv rlegeswhich they may endanger, are ge: nerally difpofed to be quiet,- and even to bear much , rather than hazard all. While the go- vernment is mild andjuf't, while importan t civil and religious rights are fecure, fuch fubie éts will be dutiful and obedient. The waves do not rife but when the winds blow. What fuch an adminif'cration as the Duk e of Alva s in the Netherlands, might produce, I know not; but this I think I have a right to deem im- ‘ poffible.--And yet there were two very mani feft differences between that cafe, and ours; and both and murdering their people; can it reafonably are in our favour. The/fry}, that Spain had already united the feventeen provinces unde r one be fuppofed there is any danger of their uniting againf't their own nation, which protects and en- yifible government, though the flates cont inued independent: Theflcma', that the inhab itants of courages them, with which they have {0 many thofe provmces were ofa nation, not only different conneétions and ties of blood, interett and affec- tion, and which, it is well known, they all love from, but utterly unlike the Spaniards. Had the Netherlands been peopled from Spain, the worfi ' of: oppreflion had probably not provoked them to much more than they love one another ? In fhort, there are {0 many caufes that muff operate to prevent it, thatI will venture to fay, an union amongt't them for fuch a purpofe, is not merely improbable; it is impoflible. And if the union of the whole is impofiible, the attempt of a , part muf't be madnefs; as thofe colonies that did not join the rebellion, would join the mother country in fiipprefling it.--When l fay fuch-an union Wifli a feparation of government. It might, and probably would have ruined the country; but would never have produced an independent {ove- reignty.-ln faét, neither the very worlt ofgo- .Vemments, the worlt of politics in the laft cen- t-UYY; nor the total abolition of their remaining liberty, in the provinces of Spain z'g/é/ , in the pre: fent; have produced any independency [in Spain] that could be fupported. The fame may be obfervcd of Frame. C C And |