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Show [55] [54] that are ufelefs. Such is the winlom of our plan in both its members. They are feparately given up as of no value; and yet one is always to be defended for the fake of the other. But I, cannot agree with the Noble Lord, nor with the pamphlet from whence he feems to have bor- rowed thele ideas, concerning the inutility of the trade laws. For without idolizing them, lam fure they are flill, in many ways, of great ufe to us; and in former times, they have been of the greatel'c. They do confine, and they do greatly riecellary to put the taxes out of the queftion by a repeal. See how the Americans act in this pofition, and then you will be able to difcern correctly what is the true object of the controverfy, or whether any controverfy at all will remain? Unlefs you content to remove this caufe of difference, it is impofiible, with decency, to aflert that the diipute is not upon what it is avowed to be. And I would, Sir, recommend to your ferious confideration, whether it be prudent to form a rule for punilhing people, not on their narrow, the market for the Americans. But niv perfect conviction of this, does not help me in own acts, but on your conjectures 9f Surely it is the leatl to dilccrn how the revenue laws form any fecurity whatloever to the commercial regu- ing your anger, by their mifconduxf‘t; but it is prepofterous at the very heft. It is not jullify- converting your ill-will into their delinquency. lations; or that theie commercial regulations are the true ground of the quarrel; or, that the giv. 111g way 111 any one initance of authority, is to 1016 all that may remain unconceded. But the Colonies will go further.--Alas! alas! when will this fpeculating" againil no: and realon end? What will quiet thefe panic fears which we entertain of the hollile elicit ofa conciliatory The public conduct? Is it true, that no cale can exifl, in and avowed origin of this quarrel, ~was on taxatlon. ThIS quarrel has indeed brought on new dilputes on new quellions; but certainly the leafl: which it is proper for the fovereign to accede to the defires of his difcontented firbjeé‘ts? Is there bitter, and the fewell ot‘iall, on the trade laws. '10 Judge which of the two he the real radical for itfelf? Is all authority of courfe loll, when it is not pufhed to the extreme? Is it a certain 1 maxim, that, the fewer carries of difiiitisiaé‘tion One fact is clear and indifputable. Chile or quarrel, we have to IE: whether the commercial dilpute did, in order of time, precede tyre dripute on taxation? There is not a {had ow or evrdence for it. Next, to enable us to judge whether at this moment a diililtc to the Trad e Laws be the real cauli- ol' quarrel, it is abfolutcly any thing peculiar in this cafe, to make a rule are left by government, the more the iubjefi will be inclined to refifi; and rebel? All thefe objections being in no no more than fufpicions, conjectures, divinations; fori ed in E 4 necefiin‘y defiance |
