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Show [ I4 ] [ I5 1 often to expofe the calamities and difgraces of of this preamble? Is not the inpply there {lated as effectually abandoned as if the tea duty had Parliament. The preamble of this law,. {tand- ing as it now fiands, has the 116 direct giyen to perifhed in the general wreck? it by the provifionary part of the Act; if that can be called provifionary .which makes no provifion. Ifhould be afraid to exprefs my: felfin this manner, efpecially 1n the face of limb a formidable array of ability as is now Speaker, is a precious mockery-a preamble carefully kept up! This is raifing a revenue in America! This is preferving dignity in Eng- drawn up before me, compofed of the antient land! If you repeal this tax in compliance houfehold troops of that fide ofthc lioufe, and with the motion, I readily admit that you the new recruits from this, if the matter were lofe this fair preamble. not clear and indifpntable. Nothing but truth could give me this firmnefs; but plan; truth and clear evidence can be beat down by no ability. The Clerk will be fo good as to turn to it. The object of the act is gone already; and all you fufi‘er is the purging the Statute-book .of the opprobrium of an empty, abfurd, and Here, Mr. without an act-taxes granted in order to be repealed-and the reafons of the grant fiill Ef'timate your lofs in falfe recital. the Act, and to read this favourite preamble: lV/Jerear it is expedient t/mt a renenue flaw/d 5:3 rafia' in your .Majgflyis Domzmons 272 America, for making a more certain and adequate provflon for rig/raving t/Je Marge qfrbe adminiftration of jufl‘ice, and fupport of c1v11 government, 172 fur/J Province: luv/Jere {If/3411 fie found fleetflzry; and towards further defraying the enhancer of defending, protecting, and fecuring the fad Earninions. You have heard this pompous performance. Now where is the revenue which is to do all thefe mighty things? Five fixths repealed-abandoned--funk--g0ne-lofl for ever. Does the poor folitary tea duty fupport the purpolesfl ‘ ' or It has been faid again and again, that the five Taxes Were repealed on commercial prin- ciples. It is f0 faid in the paper in my handi"; a paper which I conf'tantly carry about ; which I have often ufed, and {hall often ufe again. What is got by this paltry pretence .of commercial principles I know not; for, if your government in America is deftroyed by the re- peal! qf Taxes, it is, of no confequence upon what ideas the repeal is grounded. Repeal this Tax too upon commercial principles if you pleafe. Thefe principles will ferve as well now as they did formerly. But you know * Lord HillIborough's'Circular Letter to the Governors the Colonies concerning the Repeal of fome of the Duties laid of in the Act of1767. that, |