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Show ( 29 ) ( 28 l foggy iflands; and this under the imperious of human felfifhnefs ; but fhould you be cona {way of a domefiic defpot, or you will be- tented to bid, defiance to the warnings of come the provinces of fome powerful Euro- common policy,-fhould you be contented to be'flaves on the hope that the Americans pean flare. will bear the greater part of the burden of If a long fucceflion of abufed profperity your enormous taxes,-be afl'iired, that fuch ihould, my friends and fellow citizens, have an alternative will never be in your power: -No ;--if a civil war commences between entirely deprived you of that virtue, the re- Great-Britain and her Colonies, either the Mother Country, by one great exertion, may ruin both herfelf and America, or the Ame-- ricans, by a lingering contef'r, will gain an independency , and in this cafe, all thofe ad- vantages which you for fome time have enjoyed by your Colonies, and advantages which have hitherto preferved you from a national bankruptcy, muf't for ever have an end ; and whilfc a new, a flourifhing, and an nown of which makes you even at this day refpeétable among all the nations of the civilized world ;-if neither the principles of jufi'ice or generofity have any weight with you, let me conjure you to take into confideration the interefls of your fafety and prefervationz-Sufei‘ me again to remind you of the imminent danger of your fituation :- Your Minii‘rers, by attacking the rights of all America, have efefied that which the malicious policy of more judicious minds extenfive empire of freemen is eflablifhed on would have avoided. the other fide the Atlantic, you, with the vinced that their fafety depends on their lots of all thofe bleflings you have received harmony, are now united in one {trong bond of union; nor will it be in the power of a Machiavel by the unrivalled Rate of your commerce, will be left to the bare pofl'eflion of your foggy Your colonif'rs, con- |