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Show l 96 ] [97] own government; that fenfe of dignity, and that fecurity to property, which ever attends freedom, has a tendency to increafe the flock of the free community. Moll: may be taken where molt is accumulated. And what is the foil or climate where experience has not uniformly proved, that the voluntary flow of heaped-up plenty, hurfiing from the weight of its own rich luxuriance, has ever run with a more copious ftream of revenue, than could be loneezcd from the dry hufks of opprefl‘ed indigence, by the {training or all the politic machinery in the I, for one, protefi againft compounding our demands: I declare againf't compounding, for a poor limited fum, the immenfe, evergrowing, eternal Debt, which is due to generous Government from protected Freedom. And lo may I fpeed in the great object I propofe to you, as I think it would not only be an aét of injuflice, but would be the worf't oeconomy in the world, to compel the Colonies to 21 {um certain, either in the way of ranfom, or in the way of compulfory compact. world. But to clear up my ideas on this fubj‘eét-a-a re: Next we know, that parties muf't ever exifl: venue from America tranfmitted hithera-do not in a free country. We know too, that the emulations offuch parties, their contradii'tions, their reciprocal neceflities, their hopes, and their fears, mutt fend them all in their turns to him that holds the balance of the Prate. The parties are delude yourfelves-you never can receive it-n No, not a fhilling. we have experience that from remote countries it is not to be expected. If, when you attempted to extract revenue from Bengal, you were obliged to return in loan what the Gamefiers ; but Government keeps the table, you had taken in impolition; what can you CX‘ and is lure to be the winner in the end. When this game is played, I really think it is more to be feared, that the people will be exhaulted, than peé't from North America? for certainly, if ever there was a country qualified to produce wealth, that Government will not be fupplied. Whereas, it is India; or an infiitution fit for the tranfmif- lion, it is the Ball-India company. America has whatever is got by a€rs of abfolute power ill none of thefe aptitudes. obeyed, becaule odious, or by contracts ill kept becaufe confirained ; will be narrow, feeble, un: taxable ohjeé'rs, on which you lay your duties here, and gives you, at the fame time, a furplus certain, and precarious. " Eafe wall/drama? vows by a foreign {ale of her commodities to pay the -" made 2321mm, as violent and void." duties on thefe objects which you tax at home, If America‘gives you {he has performed her part to the Britifh revenue. 3 I, for ' H But |