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Show [40] [41] have taught him pioufly to believe1n the myfle1ious virtue of wax and parchment. We have thrown each traft of land, as it was peopled, into old, and, as I thought, exploded problem of tyranny, which propofes to beggar its fubjeéts into and we have carefully attended every fettlcment with government. fubmiflion. But, remember, when you have compleated your fyftem 0f impoverifhment, that Nature fiill proceeds in her ordinary courfe; that difcontent will encreafe with mifery; and that there are critical moments in the fortune Adhering, Sir, as I do, to this policy, as well of all Prates, when they, who are too weak to contribute to your prolperity, may be fhong d1fir1€tsg that the ruling power fhould never be wholly out of light. We have fettled all we could; as for the reafons l have juf'r given, I think this new project of hedging-111 population to be neither prudent 11or practicable. enough to complete your ruin. Spolialzs armzz fuperfimz‘. The temper and character which prevail in To impoverilh the Colonies in general, and in 0111 Colonies, me, I am afraid, unalte1able by particular to arrefl the noble courfe of their ma- any human art. We cannot, I fear, falfify the pedigree of this fierce people, and perfuade them rine enterprizes, would be a more eafy talk. I freely confefs it. We have {hewn a difpofition to a fyllem of this kind; a difpofition even to continue the refiraint after the offence; looking on ourfelves as rivals to our Colonies, and perfuaded that of courfe we mufi: gain all that they {hall lofe. Much mifchief we may certainly do. The power inadequate to all othe1 things is often more than futficient f01 this. I do not look on the direft and immediate power of the Colonies to refift our violence, as very formidable. that they are not fprung from a nation, in whole veins the blood of freedom circulates. The language in which they would hear you tell them this tale, would detect the impolition; your fpeech would betray you. An Englilhman is the unfittef't perfon on earth, to argue another Englilhman into flavery. I think it is nearly as little in our power to But change their republican Religion, as their free defcent; or to fubflitute the Roman Catholick, when I confider, that we have Colonies for no as a penalty; or the Church of England, as an purpofe but to be ferviceable to us, it feems t0 improvement. The mode of inquifition and dragooning, is going out of fafhion 1n the old world; and I {hould not confide much to their In this, however, ‘I may be mifiaken. 11y poor undeifianding a little prepofterous, to make them unlerV 1ceable, in order to keep them obedient. It is, in truth, nothing more than the old, eflicacy in the new. ' 2 The education of the Americans |