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Show [39] in many places. You cannot flation garrifons in 'reie 3 ans, to change the Spirit as every part of thefe deferts. y to: roving the caules, I think is people from one place, they will carry on their inconvenient, the molt like . lyrematiclt proceeding. If you drive the It is annual Tillage, and remove with their flocks "dical in its principle; but it is attended with and herds to another. Many of the people in the back fettlements are already little attached to particular fituations. Already they have topped the Apalachian mountains. From thence they . dil'cculties, tome of them little fhort, as ' conceive, of impotiibilities. This will appear by examining into the Plans which have been propofed. As the growing population in the Colonies is evidently one caule of their refil‘tance, it was laft fellion mentioned in both Houles, by men of weight, and i'CCeived not Without applaule, that, in order to check this evil, it would be proper for the crown to make no further grants of land. But to this fcheme, there are two objeclions. The firft, that there is already to much unfettled land in private hands, as to afford room for an immenfe future population, although the crown not only withheld its grants, but annihilated its toil. if this be the cafe, then the only effect of this avarice of defolation, this hoarding of a royal wildernefs, would be to mile: the value of the pofieilicns in the hands of the great private monopolids, without any adequate checl' to the growing and alarming milchief of population. behold before them an immerib plain, one vafi, rich, level meadow; a {quare (F five hundred miles. Over this they would wander, without a poflibility of reflraint; they would change their manners with the habits of their life; would foon forget a government, by which they were difowned; would become Hordes of Englifh Tartars; and, pouring down upon your urnbrtified frontiers a fierce and irrefiftible cavalry, become matters of your Governors and your Cournellors, your collectors and comptrollers, and of all the Slaves that adhered to them. Such would, and, in no long time, mull be, the etioct of attempt- ing to forbid as a crime, and to fupprefs as an evil, the Command and Blefirng of Providence, " Encreafe and Multiply." Such would be the happy refult of an endeavour to keep as a lair of wild beads, that earth, which God, by an exprefs Charter, has given to the children of men. Far diflrerent, and furely much wil‘er, has been our policy hitherto. But, if you flopped your grants, what would be the eonl‘auence? The people would occupy Vithout grants. The have already to occupied in Hitherto we have in- vited our people by every kind of bounty, to fixed efiablifhments. We have invited the hafi bandman, to look to authority for his title. "We D 4. have |
