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Show at THE THE DESIGN. DESIGN. per clafs, to prefent them to the reader in that point of View, in which alone they are applicable to the queltions we are are to examine. In the difcuflion of thefe quefiions we ihall reap little benefit from the dogmatic tone of general allertion, from the ingenuity of metaphor, or from the pompous difplay of " thofe gratuitous and acknowledged truths, " which being generally received, are little " doubted, and being little doubted have x; What avails it to tell us, that " thejul}, " wife, and necellary confiitutional fuperiori- " ty of Great Britain over her colonies fhould " be maintained unimpaired, and undiminilhw " ed *?" But one American has yet denied the pofition 1-. What avails it to tell us, that the fupe- riority of Great Britain over her colonies is not to annihilate the liberties of the Americans, is not " to put them in a fituation To many of the ‘5 not becoming a freeman * P" Thefe truths, what courtier is hard} enough to difpute ? latter clafs one general anfwer would fufiice. If you mean to inl‘truEt us, go one ficp " been rarely proved ‘4‘." " To be prejudiced is always to be weak 1-." farther, teach us to apply each our own "What avails it to tell us, that " a colony " is to the mother-country as a member to maxim to our own cafe: define this confiituv tional fuperiority of Great Britain : teach us to reconcile Britifh fuperiority with Ameri- can liberty ‘ This is not a queftion of the fchools, to be decided by random maxims, or apophthcgms of the fages. XVhat avails it to cite detached uncon-- ‘ the body, deriving its action and its " firength from the general principle ova " tality 1:. The colonifts may {mile perhaps at the pomp with which the hackneyed metaphor is reproduced; but they will add, " If " you think us incurably tainted, fubmit us " to amputation, you will find we have a 4‘ principle of vitality Within ouriclveS; we nec'ted opinions from writers on our laws ? This is not a quellion before a common court of juitice, acknowledged to be com- " i‘nall not perilh like a putrid limb", *‘ Mr. Burke's Speech to the Elcitors of Briiiol. * Sec Taxation no Tyranny, p. I. + See ihid. p. 3. T. See ib. p. 28. tr Dr. Franklin, as cited by Dr. Tucker, but it is fince {aid the performance which the dean refers to is not Dr. Franklin's. "Unit (9 petent |