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Show i 83 ] [ 89 l underftand it when you pleafe, to be not a dill the prevailing virtue, anl C511C8ClOUS operation 05 tinétion 05 geooraphy, but 05 policy, that it is a powei 501' regulating trade, and not 501 ittpport- lenity, though working111da1knels, and111 chaos, ing efiablithments. The di {Tiné‘tiorn which15 as nothing with 1egard to right, is of mofi: weighty confideration in praé‘tice. Recover your old ground, and your old tranquillity-try itj-I am perluaded the Americans will c0111pr0111iie with you. VJhen confidence1s 011cc 1151'11'C1l, the odi- ous and 5115picious flmzm1722 77:: will periih 05 cou 1"15e.he lpii'iit o1puntrcaawty, 051110deratio1, and mutual convenience.vill never call111 geometiical cxacT11c5s as the arbitrator (:5 an amicable 513ttle111cnt. C11115uit and 5.llo1v you: cipcrn 11cc. Let no: the 111)!) hoiy 1vitl1:vl1iC1i1 lave 14213101111 youi patience, {11010511115155 to you' 1111(‘1tho. 1'(,1 my part, llhouldc.ht105 (it; could have my "ith) thta thepioz‘o051tion oi ‘1l *r'lon. (3611-. 1125111111 for th1e repeal, could go to America Without the attendance 05 the penal bills. AloneI coul almolT aniner 501' its 511C0053. I cannot be certain ofits reception in the had com11111y it may keep. In 511ch heterogeneous aflortments, the, moit innocent potion will lole the 655ccT 05 his in- 11ocency. Though you 5l1ould fend out this an- gel of peace, yet you are fending out a deflroying auoel too; and what would be the e55€ét 05 the confliét 05 their: two adverfe .5pi1its, 01 which would predominate111 the end, is What I dare not 5ayzvvhethe1 the lenient mealmes would caule in the midit or all this unnatural and turbid combination. I fhould hopeit might produce order and btauty111 the end. Let 113, Sir, embrace 501110 5yflcm 01' other before we end this 5e51ion. Do you mean to tax America, and to draw a producTive revenue from thence? If you do, 5110151. out: name, fix, a5certain this 1eve11ue; fettle its quantity; define its objec‘ts, plovide for its colleCtion; and then fight when you have 50mething to tight 501'. l5you 11111rder--robl It you kill, take poflehion; and do not apoem in the cl1a1a€tcr o5 madmen, as well as aflafiins, violent, Vindi é‘rive, bloody, and tyran- nical, without an objec‘t. But may better coun- 5els guide you! Again, and again, revert to your old principles -..-5eck. peace and 011511 it ' ' . 7 a, if [he has taxable matter in her, to tax hcr5e15. lam not here going" into theldil‘tincTions of rights, 1101' attempting to maik their boundaries. I do not entex into thele metaphylica (11111116110115; 1 hate the veiy 5o1111d or them. Leave the Americans as they antiently flood, and the5e dii‘tinél'ions, horn of on 1 unhappy conteft, will die along with it. They, and we, and their and our anceftors, have been happy under that 5yftem. Let the me- inory 05 all acTions, in c011tradiéTion to that good old mode, on both fides, be cxtinguifhed for ever. Ameiican pa.i10n to 5ublide, 01' the 5eveic \1ould Be content to bind America by laws of tr;ade you increale its nary-All this13 in the hand 05 P10- have alwavs done it. Let this be your realon tor vidcncc; yet now even 1101131 {hould conhue in bindinor their trade. Do not burthen them by taxes, you were not uted to do to from the be- '5 1111'. Fuller. tll‘? (Ti ' in". p11) |