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Show 70 ADDRESS AND APPEAL To Application do we make of fuch hiltorical 1M9mentos to the Bufinefs of the prefent Day? The THE LANDED INTEREST. remoteil of our Provinces in Frame were hardly 300 Mites dii'rant from our own Coafis, the Means follow, that we fhould be deftitute of their Trade, if each American Province was nearef't of [hole in flmcrircz are about 3000. The erected into a feparate and independent State; nay, tho' the contrary hath been made to ap- Provinces in France were already fully peopled, and peopled for the molt Part by Inhabitants extremely well affected at that Time to the Englzflz Government: Whereas the Deferts of l. l" i v \ l imulmmm ,L;,;...m,~_4-‘:' ‘ ‘1‘" w ‘ ' u-nIquuuu‘fiw flmerim require firlt to be peopled by Draughts either from ourfelves, or from our European Cuf'tomers ; and then when thefe Emigrants have been fettled for a Generation or two, they 71 pear by fuch a Chain of Evidences, as no Man hitherto hath attempted to break or weaken, yet, granting the worft, granting even that thefe Nari/z-a/r/merz'cmzr traded with us as little after a Separation as they do at prefent, {till it is polfible that we may then live, becaufe it is certain we do now live without them; and do not become native Americans, who naturally forget only live, but alfo enjoy as many of the Comforts and Elegancies, not to mention the Profu- the Supremacy of that Country, with whole _ . Government they have f0 little Connections, from whofe Seat of Empire they are {0 far dif- lions and Luxuries of Life, as any Nation ever did, and more than we orirlelves did heretofore. .tant,_ whofe ruling Power they {0 feldom feel (and therefore do not regard) and confequently whofe Claims they confider as f0 many auda- cious Attempts to rob them of their beloved Independence. THEREFORE (to be more particular on this Head, for furely it is a molt important one) we were gravely told, that as foon as ever the Amerim": fhould {hut their Pores againl't us, Famine to our Manufacturers, Bankruptcy to our Mer- ' chants, Defiruction and Defolation to our Sea~ BUT this is not all: And the Abfurdity of our prefent Conduct in not abandoning the rebellious Provinces of Nort/z-Almerim, becomes {till more glaring, when we confider farther, (what we now find by Experience to be true) that we can live and flourith, even in our commercial Capacity, without the Aflifiance of thefe refractory Colonies. For tho' it doth by no Means port Towns mufi inevitably enfue. VJell, the flmcrimm have now {but their Ports for a confiderable Time againl't the Admifiion of Englg‘flz Manufactures. And what has enlued ? Nothing, that Iknow of, 1b very dil‘mal, or f0 very tragical; and none of thofe Mar/r and bitter Days, with which we were threatened, have yet appcared. Nay, according to the Accounts re- ceived from the principal manufac‘turing Places and |