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Show 288 A015 RELATING Part IL: Sect. XI. and it is indeed a declaratory 218:. It pres ferved the authority of Great Britain" How? By declaring it to be preferved. ‘What elfe does it ? Juf'r nothing-It exacts no recognition of that authority. It pre-s fcribes no means of enforcing it. What a victory ! what dangers furrnounted! what giants vanquiihed ! I hope the ora- tor Will forgive me; but I could not help exclaiming with lord Grizzle to Dollal- TO THE Commas. 289 rat, and declare our right to lay it? to tear up a tree which if watered mig ht have "yielded fruit," for no other pur poih than to " plant What was called in " America a barren yew, cafii'ng a noxious " ihade over the eolonies'* .P" "79.3 it not timid to afibr‘t at home a right, of which he dared not exact a recognition on the other tide the Atlantic? Is not leaving every thing to be decided hereafter, to 1011a, Procraltinate? This vaunted aé‘t " (:fy'ml'i‘z‘ I tell you, madam, it is all a trick, " andgf'brtz'z‘udaJ'm" of fupreme magna- He made the giants firf'c, and then he " nimitv," what was it after all, more than the unmeaning rhodomantade of killed them *1 At belt the noble lord mil'rook the object of his attack. He thought all was done when he had out~talked and out- voted " an unfcrupulous oppofition :" this ambaflhdors, who flyle their matters kings of France, or of Jerufalem? thefe titles do not fecure a foot of land : the declaratory act does not fecure an atom of antho- rity. was done, but was nothing that ought to have been done procrallinatcd? "[33 it "fyf'cematic" Wholly to take away the If the colonies had objected to the {lamp aft on principles of expediency, on name commercial principles, it might have * Tragedy of Tragedies, or the Hiftory ot‘Tom Thumb. {6 See Farmer's Letters, p, 7 n1‘ tax, U been |