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Show [94] [95] accord with one whofe foundation is perpetual difcord. But what (fays the Financier) is peace to us Compare the two. This I offer to give you is plain and fimple. The other full of perplexed and intricate mazes. This is mild; that harfli. This is found by experience effectual for its purpofes; the other is a new projeé'c. This is univerfal; the other calculated for certain Colonies only. ration; pl 11/ mm This is immediate in itsconciliatory opethe other remote, contingent, full of hazard. Mine is what becomes the dignity of a ruling people; gratuitous, unconditional, and not held out as matter of bargain and fale. I have done my duty in propofing it to you. Ihave indeed tired you by a long difcourfe; but this is the misfortune of thofe 'to whole influence no- without money? Your plan gives us no Revenue. No! But it does-For it fecures to the fubjeét the power of REFUSAL; the firft of all'Revenues. EXperignce is a cheat, and faé‘t altar, if this power in'the fubjeé't of proportioning his grant, or of not granting at all, has not been found the richef'r mine of Revenue ever difco- vered by the {kill or by the fortune of man. It does not indeed vote you ,1; 152,750: 11.123119. nor any other paltry limited fum.---But it gives the firong box itielf, the fund, the bank, from whence only revenues can arife amongf't a people fenfible of freedom : Pafim [zzditzzr arm. Cannot you in England; cannot you at this time of day; cannot you, an Houfe of Commons, truf't to the thing will be conceded, and who muf't win every principle which has raifed fo mighty a revenue, inch of their ground by argument. You have heard me with goodnefs. May you decide with Wifdom! For my part, I feel my mind greatly difburthened, by whatI have done to-day. I have been the lefs fearful of trying your patience, hecaufe on this fubjefl I mean to fpare it altogether in future. I have this comfort, that in every fiage of the American affairs, I have Readily oppofed the meafures that have produced the confufion, and may bring on the defiruc‘tion, of this empire. I now go f0 far as to rifque a propofal of my own. If I cannot give peace to my and accumulated a debt of near 140 millions in country; I give it to my confcieuce. But this country? Is this principle to be true in England, and falfe every Where elfe? Is it not true in Ireland? Has it not hitherto been true in the Colonies? Why {hould you prefume that, in any country, a body duly confiitnted for any funétion, will negleét to perform its duty, and abdicate its trnf't? Such a prefumption would go againfi all government in all modes, But, in truth, this dread of penury of fupply, from a free afiembly, has no foundation in nature. For firfl: obferve, that, befides the define which all men have naturally of fupporting the honour ‘of their own |
