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Show [ 92 l [ 93 1 Afi'eé‘tions of the Indians, is particularly to be commended; for thefe were the Things, as you jufily obferved, which involved us in the mof't bloody and expenfive War that ever was known -, and theIe, by being repeated, will I'timulate the poor injured Savages to redrefs their Wrongs, and retaliate the Injury as foon as they can, by fome Means or other. You did therefore exceedingly right, in manifelting the utmoi't Ab~ horrence and Detefiation of all fuch Practices. BUT of late I cannot fay, that I receive the fame Satisfaétion from your Correfpondence: joy myfelfl-vof letting every Man fee with his own Eyes, and aft according to his own You, and your Countrymen, certainly are difcon- tented to a great Degree; but whether your Dif"Ill/HINDI content arifes from a Defire'of' Change, and of making Innovations in your Form of Govern» ment, or from a mifi‘a'ken Notion, that we are making Innovations in it, is hard to lay. Give . me Leave therefore to- expofiulate with you, on this firange Alteration in your Conduct. You indeed talk loudly of Chains, and exclaim vehemently againf't Slavery :--‘ But furely you do not fufpeet, thatI can enter- Judgment :---This, I lay, I would willingly in- dulge every Man in, as far as ever is confif'tent For indeed Governments there muff be of fome Kind or other; and Peace and Subordination are to be preferved ~, otherwife, there would be no fuch Thing as true Liberty fubfif'ting in the BE" World. IN Purfuance therefore of this rational Plan of Liberty, give me Leave to alk you, young Man, What is it you mean by repeating to me {0 often in every Letter, 9725 Spirit of #26 Cari/filulioii ? I own, I do not much approve of this Phrale, becaufe its Meaning is {0 vague and in- determinate; and becaufe it may be made to ferve all Purpofes alike, good or bad. And indeed it has been my conf'tant Remark, That when Men were at a Lofs for folid Arguments and Matters of Fact, in their political Difputes, they then had recourfe to the Spirit of the Confiitution as to their lalt Shift, and the only tain the molt difi‘ant Wllh of making any Man Thing they had to fay. a'Slave, much lefs my own Brother's Son, and ample, now infil'ts, That according to the Spirit of the Englifli Conf'titution, he ought not to be my next of Kin-480 far from it, that whether I can make you a Convert to my Way ofthinking or not, I lhall {till a& by you as my neareit Relation; being always defirous of allowing that Liberty to others, whichI hope ever to enJOY ‘ iflliima I with good Government, and the public Safety. An flmerimn, for Ex- taxed without his own Confent, given either by himfelf, or by a Reprel‘entative in Parliament chofen by himfelf. Why ought he not? And doth the Confiitution fay in lo many Words, M 3 that |