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Show mmwaasnmui; [ 134 ] You {well with too much vain Importance, and Selllfufliciency already; and therefore, lhould we betray any Token of Submillion; or ihoulrl we yield to thefe your ill»humoured and petulant Delires; this would only lerve to confirm you in your prefent Notions; (viz. that you have nothing more to do, than to demand with the Tom of Autno- rity, and to inlill, with Threattnings and De- fiance, in ordtr to bring us upon our Knees, (anti/tar t7 and to comply with every unrealonable Injunction, which you fliall be pleated to lay upon us. So that at lafl', when the Time Ihall come of appealing to the Sword, and of deciding our ‘ Differences by Dint of Arms, the Confequence of this Procraf‘tination will be, that the Struogle will become [0 much the more obftinat e, zDand the Determination the more bloody. Nay, the Merchants themielves, whofe Cafe is trul y pitiable for having confided f0 much to your H0nour, and for having trul‘ted you with f0 many hundred thoufand Pounds, or perhaps with fome Millions of Property, and for whole Benefit alone inch 21 Sufpenfion of the Stamp Act could be propofed; they* will find to their Colts, *' The Event has feve rely but too jultly founded. proved this Conjecture to be that Renunciation of the Right, by repealing the Aft. This being the Cafe, nothing more than a Re- nunciation can be fatisfae‘l‘ory -, becaufe nothing elfe can amount to a Confeflion, that the Parliament has noted illegally and ulurpingly in this Aficair. A bare Sul‘penfion, or even a mere Re- peal, is no Acknowledgment of Guilt; nay, it fuppwfes quite the contrary; and only poi'tpones the lixercife of this ufurped Power to a more convenient Seafon. Corileqtieiitly if you think you could juftify the Nonpayment of your Debts, 'till a Repeal took Place, you certainly can jufiify the Sufpenlion of the Payment 'till we have acknowledged our Guilt. So that after all, the Qlefiion muf't come to this at lai‘t, 'vz'z. Shall we renounce any Legillative Authority over you, and yet maintain you as we have hitherto done P Or fiiall we give you entirely up, unlefs you will i'ubmit to be governed by the fame Laws as we are, and pay fomething towards maintaining yourfelves .9 THE firft it is certain we cannot do; and therefore the next Point to be confidered is (which is allb the third Propofai) Whether we are to give you entirely up Pwflad after liming ohlzged M an lnllance ofl',ir:n1ty. furnilh another Pretencc. to you for the. ii hzending of the Payment of theirjnfl Demands. In fhort, you declare, that the Parliament hath no Right to tax you -, and therefore you demand a 5 terpreted by you as a Mark of Fear, and not as [ 135 ] that every Indulgence of this Natur ‘ will only 4 aiHVVIt AA ‘Norld, that all Delays on our Side will only firengthen the Oppolition on yours, and be in- |