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Show 33) ted among you, already overfpreads the land, ex, tending its arms to the ocean, and it's limbs to cy.-- Vhat, tho' they ‘fubdue every generous pair- the rivers.--Unclean and voracious animals under it's covert, find protection and food,--but the lhade blafieth the green herb, and the root thereof poifoneth the dry ground, while the Wll'ldS which wave its branches featter peltilence and death. on and extinguifll every lpark of virtue-all this defervcs fome confidcration.-VVhat regular gu- vernment can America enjoy with a legillative a thoufand leagues dil‘tant, unaequainted with her exigencies, militant in interelt, and unfeeling of her calamities, ? \Vhat protection of property- when Iiiiiiiltei‘s under this authority lhall overrun the land with mercenary legions P \Vhat per- fonal fafety when a Britifh adminiltratior1-(fiich as it now is, and corrupt as it may be)-pour armies into the capital and fenate-houfe,-point their artillery againlt the tribunal of juitice, and plant weapons of death at the polls of our doors ? * by tribute and plundered with impu- Amidft all the devices of man to the prejudice of his fpeeies, the infiitution of which we treat hath proved the molt extenlively fatal to religion, morals and focial happinefs. Founded in the molt malevolent difpofitions of the human breaft, difguifed by the policy of ltate, fupported by the lufts of ambition, THE SWORD hath fpread havock and mifery throughout the world. By the aid of mercenary troops, the linews of war, the pro-‘ perty of the fubjeet, the life of the common-wealth have been committed to the hands of hirelings, Whofe in-terelt and very exiftence, depend on an abufc of their power. In the lower clals of life, STANDING ARMIES have introduced brutal debauchery and real cowardice ; in the higher orders of fiate, venal haughtinefs and extravagant diffipation. In {hort whatever are the concommitants of defpotifm ; whatever the appendages of oppreflion, this ARMED MONSTER hath fpawned or nurtuor ellablifhed ;-monuments and s red, protec'ted 4i but they will never make a progrels 1n literature or the ufeful arts. Surely a prohc1ency in arts and fciences is of fome value to mankind, and exhauflcd nity. « Regular government is necellary to the-prefervati. on of private property and perional feeurity. With out thefe, men will defeend into barbarifin, or at heft become adepts in humiliation and .fervility; mull be done, before empires will fubmit to be * All this, anl mushmore, hath Boflon been witzzefs t3. .‘C _ , liant a figure, who would not for want ofproperty have been driven from a Roman cohort, w/Jm jbldier: were the defender: of liberty? * Booty * See Roufl'eau's Social Comp. 202... ,1 characters compole it .9 Is there a private centincl of all the innumerable troops that make to bril- -=:,s._-r_'~vnvcr-.-_,.a-_a-_ cy.-- Review the armament of modern princes :- what fentiments actuate the military body? what -. Thus expofed to the power, and infulted by the arms of Britain-STANDmG ARMIES become an objeft of ferious attention. And as the hiltory of mankind allords no inl‘tance of fuccefsful and con- firmed tyranny, without the aid of military forces, we {hall not wonder to find them the a'gfia'uram of princes, and the grand Object of modern poli- fcourges of the folly and turpitude of man. |