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Show [30] [ 3I J , knew to a certainty, how much exactly, and not a fcruple more nor lefs, we were to repeal. pardon, and promifed that repeal to the obfti- We were unworthy to be let into the fecret of nate Americans which they had refuted in an The affemblies had confi- eafy, good-natured, complying Britrih Parlia- our own conduét. dential communications from his Majefiy's ment. confidential fervants. We were nothing but in- hcly and avowedly difiblved for their cdntu- macy, are called together to receive yam" fubmiflion. Your miniilerial direé'tors bluftered ‘ftruments. Do you, after this, wonder that you have no weight and no refpect in the Colonies? After this, are you furprized, that Parliament is every day and every where lofing 1ch1 it with forrow, I utter it with reluc~ tance) that reverential affection, which fo endearing a name of authority ought ever to carry with it; that you are obeyed folely from refpeét to the bayonet; and that this Houfe, the ground and pillar of freedom, is itfclf held up only by the treacherous under-pinning and clumiy buttrefies of arbitrary power? If this dignity, which is to {land in the The aliemblies which had been pub- like tragic tyrants here; and then went mumpmg‘with a lore leg in America, canting, and whining, and complaining of faé‘tion, which reprefcntcd them as friends to a revenue from the Colonies. I hope nobody in this Houfe Will hereafter have the impridence to defend American taxes in the name of Miniftry. The moment they do, with this letter of attorney ln‘my hand, I‘Will tell them, in the authoi- rifed terms, they are wretches, " with factions7" and feditious views; enemies to the peace " and profperity of the Mother Country and. place of juft policy and common fenfe, had " the Colonic ," been confulted, there was a time for preferv- " mutual afl‘bé‘tion and confidence on which. " the glory and iafety of the Britifh Empire ing it, and for reconciling it with any conceflion. If in the fefiion of t 768, that fefiion " depend." and fubverters " of the ' of idle terror and empty menaces, you had, as you were often prefled to do, repealed thefe taxes ; then your firong operations would have come juftified and enforced, in cafe your con- cefiions had been returned by outrages. But, prepofieroufly, you began with violence; and before terrors could have any elfeét, either good or bad, your minifters immediately begged pardon, After this Letter, the quellion is no more on prOprrety or dignity. They are gone already. J liefaith of your bovereign is pledged for the po itical prrncrple. The general declaration in the Letter goes to the whole of it. You muff therefore either abandon the icheme of taxing; or you mutt lend the Miniliers tarred and feathered to America, who dared to hold out the |
