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Show 433 PLAN or RECONCILIATION. 489 for then ; mifchiefs, if not created, yet RYE!" lay the foundation of a regular per- molt certainly precipitated by the very men manent l‘yltem. The foundation of fuch a fyftem could who clamoured againlt the remedies. As to the two permanent laws, we may he laid only in a bill ofAmerican rights. 1 his bill lhould have alibi-ted the fupre- upon the whole perhaps, in fome mealiire exeuic, but we cannot praife them : they maey of the Britifh parliament, and its might be, we mutt l‘nppofe they were po yer to make laws binding over the co- well meant; but that is their chief merit. lonics~not in the fiyle of the Rockingharn act, " in all cafes whatever."-This the colonies derided at the time as a mere To the deep policy, to the. eompreheniive \‘ril‘dom of an enlightened legillature, their pretences fnrely are but ilender. érrzz‘mafia/211m, and have fince declared to " C'rfl [my c/iq/e [vii/1 jar/[5 (lays tome " one) 10:56 a" fire/(fie (rpm; cor/fa" And no doubt when a plan has been tried, and be uncom'litutional. cept taxation, But in all cafes, ex- abiolutcly and uncondi- tionally. has mifcarricd, it is eafy to deceive our- \Vith refpec‘t to taxation, it had been lel\'es, and to imagine we ‘fhould have urged in the lait parliament on behalf of fanjiwi the inconveniencies which the ex- perinrnt only has difeovered ; yet in this cafe it does appear, that the feheme of the Americans, " that parliament had no To repeal a " right to lay infer/ml taxes on them, be" eaufe they have no reprel‘entatives in " parliament; but that it had a right to part of an uneommcrcial regulation, up- " impole port duties, or external taxes, on motives pr‘ofefleclly commercial, and yet to retain the obnoxious principle, " becanfe izch duties are for the regula" tion of trade." The dillerence befiwcen Without any qualification Whatever, could taxes external and internal was, at the DCV€F fame parliament was defeétive. |