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Show I, ‘ A l " .v a," .F-e ,A Advantage which the Minil'ter gave them by a whole Year's Delay, they eagerly feized the Opportunity; EmiITaries and Agents were difpatched into all O\uarters -,---the N ewfpapers were filled with inveetives againlt the new- intended Tax. It was injudicious !---it was ill- timed l---0ppreflive !.--tyrannical l---and every Thing that was bad i Letters upon Letters were wrote to 11mm"; to excite the People to afi'ociate, to remonftrate, and even to revolt. The molt ample Prornifes were made from hence, of giV- ing them all the Allil‘tance which Faction, and Clamour, and Mock-patriotifm, could mufler up. And then it was that this very Man, this fell» had efpoufed; and then, 13 the nymging Angel of flmm'ca, ~i \ He rode in tlm lV/Jirlzuz'n/Z tn (lira? f'i‘t' Siam/2. WELL, the Storm fell on the Mir. :I‘cr fem the Time being, and overfet him. (Mr (Mi; at Home became the 1m, and the Storm] :1; xix, cafion for it, were its molt obedient "Lin".lc Servants, and wifhed it to fubfide. Bur h: re For the Americmu had, in their 'l‘urn, learnmhe Art of making Tools of them, inflezid or 213.15 made Tools by them: So that having been taught by thefe Preceptors to feel their own Wezght and Independance, they were not to be whettlitd by foothing and cajoling Letters to give over their Enterprize, or to become a traéta‘oie, obedient People for the future. In fhort, hence it came to pafs, that even during the Continuance of this new and favourite Adminifiration, the American Spirit was rifing all the while, infiead of linking. And as like Caults will always payduce like Effects, elpecially fiice Things have been {Lifierezl to grow to fuch an Height, evident It is to common Senfe, that any future r‘t‘ttenipt 0f the Brilzflz Parliament to levy a. Tax on Am:77 w , .-' now done its Bufinefs, they had no i'urihr 1- ' ~;- they found themfelves egregioufly niiilskrn. Vn' Marl}, 'l . "Tull v -' v cry down that very Mir-nine which he hinifelf - Ell-iliilula alums; commenced a zealous Patriot: 'l‘hcn he no- peared at the Bar of the Flat-£71, or Conan-1m: yo d being a flaming American Patriot, he would probably have acted the Part of a Tax-Gatherer and an flmeriam Publican. But when the Out: and the Power; on this Side the Water, faw the and u Act paffed within the ufual Time, inflead of [ 18t ] felt-intended Publican, changed Sides, Ut‘lut‘fiui' 'Cm L A t'wmi p :-‘4€. A tors and Leaders ufed confiderable Intereft to be employed as Agents in the Diltribution of thefe Stamps : And one among the ref't, whom I need not name, was more than ordinary affiduous in his Application on this Head: 80 that had the ‘ ' ~31, 1-. v‘ V A V ,., r --:..L. W ‘F‘tl‘fi g1» ,_ - e ‘r [ 180 ] Yum": Procraflz'nafimz was the main Engine employed to batter down the late Stamp-A61; When the Duty on Stamps was firl't propofed, the flmerz'cmzr made as little Objection to it, as could be fuppofed to be made to any new Tax whatever. Nay, feveral of their popular Ora- |