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Show 324 ACTS RELATING Part III. Sect. II. dreamt of going. The utmoi't that any American ever thought of maintaining, was, that America was out of the dominion of the Britilh parliament. In all the paroxyfms of party-rage, no one ever thought of maintaining that America is out of the dominions of the king. Here then have you gone to work, and cut the ground TO THE CJLONIES. breafi' of the arbitrary 325 monarch upon whom it is now attempted to be fathered. Even that defpot, under all the anxiety which dictated the extenfion of the penalties of treafon t0 ails done out of his do- minions, thought not of punifhing them any otherwife, than in the perfons of fuch as lhould happen to be found in this his from under you; and in the waywardnefs kingdom; for as to bringing over by force perfons rcfiding out of it, no fuch power is given: that power is now, it of your cunning, and the blindnefs of your zeal, blundered out a parliamentary recognition of your own injuflice and ufurpation.-Nor is all the venom of this infidi- ous proceeding apparent on the face of it. The main purpofe ofit, which it was refolved to accomp/ifla, though it dared not to aoaw, was to give fanétion to meafures conflrué'tion, for the firf't time to be af- that were concerted by the miniflry, for anfwer that might be, and was I fuppofe made to them, feems notwithl‘tanding fa- feizing obnoxious perfons in the colonies, feems, by fome forced and unnatural fumed. To thefe arguments, as being once my own, I hope I have done no injultice. The tisfaétory. and tranfporting them over to England : a meafure too odious to be trufied to open debate; too unpopular to be warranted by' a law, to be 7207:) made for it on purpofe ; too atrocious even to have entered into the The preamble, without doubt, may be, and fometimes is of ufe in dire€ting us, when the words are ambiguous, to the meaning of a fiatute, as men ought to give attention to all circumfiances that. breafl: i Y3 promife |