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Show [227.u [23l things; whenl know that the Colonies in ge- neral owe little or nothing to any care of ours, this, in a profitable and fubordinate connexion with us. and that they are not fqueezed into this happy form by the conllraints of watchful and lulpicious government, but that through a wile and {alutary riegleél, a generous nature has been ltifiered to take her ‘wn way to perfection: when I refieét upon thele effects, whenl lee how protitable they have been to us, I feel all the pride of power link, and all prelumption in the will dom of human contrivances melt, and die at ray within me. My rigour relents. I pardon lomeu thing to the lpirit of Liberty. Firfl, Sir, permit me to obferve, that the titre of force alone is but taiizponiry. It may fubdue for a moment; but it does not remove the ne- celiity of lubtluing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered. My next objection is its uncertainty. Terror is not always the effect of force; and an arma- ment is not a victory. If you do not fucceed, you are without refource; for, conciliation failing, force remains; but, force failing, no further I am fenfible, Sir, that all which I have all ferted in my detail, is admitted in the grois; but that quite a diner-ent conclulion is drawn from it. hope of reconciliation is left. Power and authority are fometimes bought by kindnefs; but they can never be begged as alms, by an impo- America, Gentlemen lay, is a noble obiccfi verilhed and defeated Violence. it is an ol‘jeét well worth fighting for. Certainly it is, it lighting a people be the belt wav of raining them. Gentlemen in this relpeét will be led to their choice of means by their com: plexions and their habits. Thole who under- fland the military art, will of courle have fume predileflion for it. Thole who wield the thunder of the Pratt, may have more confidence in the efficacy or arms. But I confels, pofi'ibly for want of this knowledge, my opinion is much A further objection to force is, that you impair the 0/3/56} by your very endeavours to prelerve it. The thing you fought for, is not the thing which you recover; but depreciated, funk, walled, and confirmed in the contePt. Nothing leis will content me, than fw/Jo/e America. Ido not choole to coufume its firength along with our own; becaule in all parts it is the Britilh firength that I confiime. I do not choofe to be caught by a foreign enemy at'the end of this more in favour of prudent management, than of tone; coniidering force not as an odious, but a feeble inllrument, for preferring a people 10 it. numerous, lo active, lb growing, it) lpirited as againfi; fuch an event. this, exhauf'ting conflict; and {till Jets in the midft of ' I may elcape; butI can make no infurancc‘ Let me add, that I do C. A a not |