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Show [ r14 ] BUT complain you will; and no looner is one Recital of imaginary Grievances {ilenced and confuted ; but, like the Hydra in the Fable, tered your former haf'ty, and ralh Opinion -,---I 1390, that with all your Zeal, and Good-will, bate the Point with you, as though you had ac- you are able to mui'ter up.-" The l'nexpediency knowledged the Parliamentary Right of Tax- " and Exceflivenefs of fuch a Tax ! a Tax ill- ation, and only excepted to the Qaantum, or the Mode, the Time, or the Manner of it. " laid on !' and exceeding all Rules of Propor" tion in regard to the Abilities of thofe, who: " are to pay it!" Now, my Friend, had! there been any Truth in thefe AIIertions, which I [hall foon make to appear, that there is not ,---but had there been,» 1i? V l‘ .V"gin. {green 9 A, 1 .1 '. vv") .l‘. Nu » .3 yourfelf was not originally quite fatisfied with the Juflice of your Caufe ~,---and mull have feen abundant Reafon before this Time to have a1- up {tarts another. Let us fee therefore, what is your next Objection, which I think, is the " timed in itfelf, and ill digef'tedl unfeafonably 05M{WK '[ I I5 ] the Plea itfelf comes rather of the latef't, and out of Place from you -,---from you, I fay, who peremptorily object to- the very Power and Authority of the Brim/z Parliament of laying (my internal Taxes upon the Colonies, great or fmall, or any Time feafonable, or unfeafonable. And therefore, had you been able to have proved the E'egalz'ty of fuch a Tax, it would. have been quite fuperfluous to have informed us afterwards, that this Ufurpation of your Rights and Liberties was either an excellive, Of an unfeafonable Ufurpationt But as you have failed in this firl't Point; nay, as all your own Arguments have proved the very reverfe‘ Of what you intended; and very probably, 83 you yourfelf will therefore wave the Advantage, and now de- Now two Things are here to be difcrilfed; firl't, the pretended Exreflvem'fi of the Tax; and fecondly, the Unfinfmmé/emfi of it. As to the Exceffivenefs of the Stamp Duties, the Proof of this muf't depend upon the Proof of a previous Article,-the relative Poverty, and Ina- bility of thofe, who are to pay it. But how do you propofe to make out this Point 3 And after having given us for fome Years pafi: fuch Dii2 plays of your growing Riches and encreafing Magnificence, as perhaps never any People did in the fame Space of Time; how can you now retract and call yourfelves a poor People? Re< member, my young Man, the feveral Expoi'tu- lations I had with your deceafed Father on the prodigious Increafe of American Luxury. And what was his Reply? Why, that an Increafe of Luxury was an infeparable Attendant on an Increafe of Riches -, and that, if I expeéted to Continue my North-A'merirmz Trade, I muf't fuit my Cargo on the Tal‘te of my Cufiomers; and P 2 not |
