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Show smug!!! llll'i ,‘fj . ~ 1.. ': . ' _, p will further add, that any other Aft, or any Other Meafure, of the Britiflz Government, as well as the Stamp-Aét, if it were to compel the Colonil‘ts to contribute a fingle Shilling towards the general Expence of the Britz'flz Em~ pire, would have had the lame Effect. For, be it ‘ever remembered, that the Coloniftsdid not fo niu'eh object to the Afode of this Tax4 ation, as to the Right itfelf of levying Taxes. Nay, their Friends and Agents here in Englamd were known to have frequently declared, That if any Tax were to be crammed down their Throats without their Confent, and by an Au-‘ thority which they difallowed, they had rather mel'tic Friends and Relations, they had for f0 many Years preceding been accullomecl to trefpafs upon their Forbearance and Indulgence, even when they molt wanted their Protection, ."2 . nounce an Authority which they never thoroughly approved of, and which now they found to be no longer necefl‘ary for their own Defence. But here fome may be apt to alk, " Had the " Colonies no Provocation on their Part P And " was all the Fault on one Side, and none on " the other 5'" Probably not :---Probably there were Faults on both Sides. But what doth this ferve to prove? If to exculpate the Colonies in regard to their prefent refraélory Behaviour, it is needlefs. For I am far from charging our others; becaufe I believe (and if l am wrong, not the Stamp-Aét which increafcd or heightened, let the Hifiory of all Colonies, whether antient thefe ill Humours in the Colonil‘ts -, rather, it or modern, was the Red uélion of Canada, which called forth down to the prefent Time, confute me il‘iit can ; thofe Difpofitions into Aélion which had long been generating before; and which were ready I fay, 'till that is done I believe) that it is the to burll forth at the lirlt Opportunity that fhould and to fet up for themleves as foon as ever they Colonies in particular with being Sinners above from the Days . of ‘fx'zztg'dtfz'des Nature of them all to alpire after lndcpcndence, U find mry‘g‘wr: D‘ i, -, ,,. . v that it was no Wonder they fhould openly re- pay this Stamp-Duty than another. BUT indeed, and properly (peaking, it was offer.- Aw Hum "13. from a foreign Enemy ; and as to their own do‘ " Aft irritated and inflamed, and greatly en" creafed all thofe ill l-Iumours, which were but " too predominant before." Granted; and I Pollefiion of the Eizglz'flz, an End was put to the Sovereignty of the Mother-Country over her Colonies. They had then nothing to fear - " HUM foned with any longer. " But the Stamp-Act " made had to become -worfe:---The Stamp- ‘4‘ of COnviétion, and therefore is not to be rea- . offer. For an undoubted Fact it is, that from the Moment in which Coma/[a came into the who can maintain thefe Paradoxes, is incapable a 3," [ I53 ] . [ I52 ] the Right of the Mother-Country P The Mad |
