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Show [loo] flex} . pervades, feeds, unites, invigoratcs, vivilics, every part of the empire, even down to the minutel'r member. Is it not the fame virtue which does every thing for us here in England 3 Do you imagine then, that it is tl e land taxi acl which railts your revenue? that it is the annual vote in the com- mittee of fupply, which gives you your army? or that it is the Mutiny Bill which inlhires it with bravery and difcipline? tNol lurely no! It . ' . . i a . u o and all in all. l‘v/li‘igllalllt‘flltV in politic ks 18 not teldom the truel't Wilden); and a great empire and little minds go ill together. If we are conlcrous of our htuation, and glow with zeal to fill our place as becomes our Portion and ourfelves, we ought to automate all our public proceedings on America, With the old warning of the church, Surzrm carda.' We ought to elevate our minds to the greatnefs of that trufl to which the order or‘1‘ lrovrd ence ,. has‘ .ficalled us. . By,. advertirw to . ~ . - . O. the dignity of this high calling, our ancel‘to rs is the love of the peoPIe; it is their attachment have turned a lavage wrldernels into a glorious to their government from the {cute of the deep empire; and have made the molt extenfive, and the only honourable conqiie'lls; not bv deltro - flake they have in lizch a glorious inllitution, which gives you your army and your navy, and infules into both that liberal obedience, without which your army would be a ball: rabble, and your navy nothing but rotten timber. All this, I know well enough, will found wild and chlmerical to the profane herd of thofe vulgar and mechanical politicians, who have no place among us; a lort of people who think that nothing exills but what is grols and material; and who therefore, far from being qualified tobe directors of the great movement of empire, are not fit to turn a wheel in the machine. But to‘men truly initiated and rightly taught, thefe ruling and matter principles, which, in the opi- mg, but-by promoting, the wealth, the number, the happlnefs, of the human race. Let us get an American revenue as we have got an American empire. Englifh privileges have made it all that it is; Englilh privileges alone will make it all it can be. In full confidence of this unalterable truth, ' .J If]? flair/f j v zm‘gzw/ : Jj-lay the firft a now (yr/fa, tone or the lernple of Peace; and I move you, " flan! 2735 Colon/'65 and P/alzrm‘z'orzr 9/" Grant " Brill/1172 zeJVor/b gamer/ca, cog/fling of Fourteen " chczmte {year/227367115, and caizmz'm'ng 7100 A127- nion ofluch men as I have mentioned, have no " A0725 (mat 1/2/9371]; affixes [ii/fméz'tmztr, [7427M not fubfiantial exillence, are in truth every thing, " bad i/Je Mic/{y mzt/prz-w/ri ge "if skiin'g andfind‘ z'rzrr A a and ll 3 " (my |