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Show V __ ,_,, And however unimportant the judg, Ezzg/iflamcn iiz Aazrriia would conduct on fuch occzm ment of Americans may now appear to that augnit body-yet furely the judgment of Europe and fu- ture aves is not unumrthy their high confideration. lions. \Vhat ihall we then fay ? Shall we impure .to thote, who are dignified as "the wifeit and moit giflature. ‘\ «1C. ,- x‘wr-Hmwfi‘zuvwfim".‘.. V ,6 Removed from the eye of royalty, the piety of 21 Sovereign may ceale to pity initeries it doth not behold ; remote from the cries of publicjufiiee and the eflbrts of popular delpair, Lords and Commons may re- main unaffected, for a feafon, with American conrulfions; yet juftice and humanity mutt foon ex- cite thofe operations in America and Europe, which hereafter will move even the lenate of Britain. True knowledge and real‘virtue perhaps was never more ditluted than on this northern contine nt; re- fined humanity ('tis boafied) was never more predominant than in Europe at this day :--Can it be fuppofed, that this virtue will be difcordant and inaftiVe ; that this knowledge will omit to unfold public wrongs, or that fueh humanity will eeafe auguit" the barbarous projection-deliberately to enlnare, that they might luperlativdy puniih ? The calm deliberation of premeditated malice feems rather more charaéteril‘tick of a private bolbm, than a pubic hody. But Governor Hutchinfon ( the repre- fentative of his Majeity in this Province ) when treating upon an aft of the Mtg/[itcbzq'f‘Z/x CII,‘€/‘}l.'/‘I€‘?t impqflng a tax or duty upon goods of the inl'iabitants of other colonies, hath aflurcd us, that " in all ages " and countries, by bodies and commzmi/iux xy'mm {uch ." deeds have been done as mofl: oi" the individuals " of which fuch communities conliiled, 3&ng re; " parately, would have been (y/mmm' 7/." X‘ An ob- fervation that his Excellency might have imbibed, from that prince ofhiftorians, Dr. Robertfim. "To abandon q/furped power, to renounce [emit-'1? er. i ror, are facrifices, which the virtue of I‘m/:7;rider/fly, has, on fome occafions, offered to TRUT H 3 but That commotions were in Bolton; that Eati- from ANY SOCIETY ofmm, no fuch cfl'ort can be to interpoie .9 The corruption: 9f [111503 recommended India tea was deitroyed, are faéts not controverted. expe€tec1. But that fuch commotions were natural to be ex- by common utility, and juttilied by iniiverial pected ; that they were fuch as flafcjnmz muft have forcfeen and A FATHER or Hls COUNTRY, who fore? prac'tice, are viewed by it's members, evil-{writ flame or barror ; and reformation 7181'6')' proceeds faw, would prevent, rather than punilh, is equal- 4‘ from themfelve‘s, but is afwgrxi roac no 1!:"1'1 ly true. The fentiments of all Americans relative to the Tea aé‘t are no fccret , their fervor in the fOM MON CAUSE equally known; and their probable intemperance in confequenee of the arrival of India teas, it required no profound fkill in men and politics to predict. Nay the Britifll papers were " them by fome FOREIGN hand." 4.- " (Influx lac- " pidus and Antony, fays Plutareh, {hew, that m " beatt is more image than man, when pofllill-d of ‘, ', " power egzm] [a Mr [my/3072". It the l‘entin‘mnts or i Robertfon are jutt, have wenot came to liar ("z-mu every powwfizl Rates and legillators an equal throri‘; .' A. full, and the fenate echoed, with the prediétions Ami {imilar to thofe which are now fulfilled. It was not difficult for E72in men in Britain to tell how ‘ ' ' ‘ ' i ‘ Englg'flamm * 2 Vol. Mall. Hill. page 1;". ‘1‘ Rift. Scotland, I Vol. page 1")": |