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Show ( r7 ): CIC‘)‘ look at the fubjeé‘ts of Venice, of Genoa, or even, of Holland. Should any manitalkx or write of the Dutch government as every cobler does of the Englilh, he would be laidl in irons, before he knew where he was.And then we be to-him! Republics 1hew~ no mercy... 12. " But ifwe fubmit to one tax, more will follow." Perhaps fo, and perhaps not.. than that \vhichyou enjoy already 9 hIay But if they did ;. if you were tax-ed (which, not every one among you worihip God ac- is quite improbable) equal with Ireland on cording to his own comcience E: What. civil liberty can you delire, which you are not already polli‘fll'd of? Do not you fit without refiraint, army man {cm/(r M5 awn thine :9 I )0 you not). very one, high orlou, enjoy the fruit of your labour? This is real, rational liberty, fuch as is enjoyed: Scotland, flill Were you to prevent this by Republics : would a republican government off... 1 m, Brethren open your eyes l Come to' yourfelves ! Be no longer the dupes orde- figning men. I do not mean any of your give you more liberty, either religious or countrymen in America : I doubt whether. any of thefe are in the fecret. l he‘dcw eivil 9 No governments iighing men, the Aliithophels are In trig" under AR). By no means. XLV ~V l. i W533% W" ‘5 fuppofe, after numbcrlefs dangers-and mil; chiefs, you ihould fcttle into one ormore when it was efiablilhed ; when you had. received a yoke, whichyou could not fhake: V'Vv~ more free 9 Far, very far from- it. It‘ would hardly be pofiible for you to lleerfi clear, between anarchy and tyranny. But' For 0 l What convulfions mufi- poor Ame-r rica feel, before any other government wan fettled P I-nnumerable mifchiefs mufi enfue, before any general form could be ef'tabli‘fhed. And the grand mifchief would cnlue, v V by linglilhmen alone ; and not by any other peeplc in the habitable world. {Would thC being independent of England make you. renouncing conneélionv with England, the remedy would be worfe than the difeafe.. i enjoy? After all the vehement cry for liberty, what more liberty can you have 9' ""hat more religious liberty can you deiire, trary a manner, as thofe of a Common~ wealth. If any one doubt of this, let him- V mfg-U I I. But, my brethren, would this be any' advantage to you .9 Can J9]! hope for a more dclirablc to rm of government, either in Eng-' land or America, than that which you now under heaven are fo dcfpotic as the Kepub‘» lican :. no fubjeéts are governed in f0 arbi-- M with-or without foreign afiif'tance, intirely‘r to overturn the government: efpecially while the main of both the' Englilh and lrilh forces, are at to convenient adif-w tance. |