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Show [ 37 l l 36 l Pnrluing the fame plan of puniflaing by the denial of the exercilc of Corti'rrinent to Hill greater lengths, we wholly abrogated the antient Government of li'litfilicliulet. \Ve were confident, that if not the very profpeet of the tirll feeling, I anarchv, would infiantly enforce a compleat lub- niii'lioii. The experiment was tried. A new, firange, unexpected face of things appeared. Anarchy is found tolerable. :‘i vaft province has WW " which preferve the whole Spirit of our own. To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to depreciate the value of Freedom itlflelf; and we never teem to gain a paltry advantage over them in debate, without attacking tome of thole principles, or deriding fome of thole feelings, for which or r anceftors have fhed their blood. But, Sir, in wilhing to put an end to per- now liiblilled, and lislixlil‘tcd in a contiderable degree of health and vigour, for near a twelvenonth, without Governor, without public Coun- cil, without judges, without executive Magiftrates. How long it will continue in, this llate, or what may arile out of this unheard-of litua- vey it minutely in every pofiible aipee‘t. Sir, if I were capable of engaging you to an equal at- tion, how can the \vilefi of us conjefture? Our tention, I would flare, that, as far as I am capable late experience has taught us, that many of thole fundamental principles, forinerly believed infallible, are either not of the importance they were imagined to be; or that we have not at all adverted to tome other far more important, and far more powerful principles, which entirely over'rule nicious experiments, I do not mean to preclude the fullell enquiry. Far from it. Far from de- ciding on a fudden or partial View, I would pa- tiently go round and round the fubiee‘t, and fur- of difcerning, there are but three ways of pro- ceeding relative to this {tubborn Spirit, which prevails in your Colonies, and diflurbs your G0- vernment. Thefe are-To change that "Spirit, as inconvenient, by removing the Caufes. To pro- lam fecute it as criminal. Or, to comply with it as neceflary. I would not be guilty of an imperfect much againl't any further experiments, which tend to put to the prootany more of thefe allowed enumeration; I can think-of but thefe three. Another has indeed been fiarted, that of giving there we had conlidercd as omnipotent. opinions, which contribute lo much to the public up the Colonies; but it met lb flight a reception, tranquillity. home, by this loofening of all ties, and this 1 concullion of all cliablilhcd opinions, 's we do that I do not think mytelf obliged to dwell a great while upon it. It is nothing but a little tally of anger; like the frowardnels of peevilh abroad. For, in order to prove, that the Americ‘ans have no right to their Liberties, we are children; In effect, we full-ct as much at I every day endeavouring to- fubvert the maxims, which who, when they cannot get all they itvould have, are refolved to take nothinm D 3 (. ' Th: |