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Show (I2) man.- Every member of a Free (late, having his property T‘CLli‘TC, and knowing himfelf his own governor, poiTeifes a S E C T. Ill. Contciouinels of dignity in himlelt‘, and feels incitements to emulation and improvement, to which the miierable flavcs of arbitrary power mull be utter (hangers. 1n inch a hate all the {pimps of action have room to operate, and the mind is itiniulated to the noblett exertioris.+--- Put to be obliged, from our birth, to look up to a creature no better than ourieives as the matter of our fortunes; and to receive his w l as our law----Vvlliat can be more humiliating? VVhat elevated ideas can enter a mind in {uch a iiiuation ?----Agrceahly to this remark , the {objects of tree flutes have, in all ages, been molt dzgtingaiilxed tor genius and knowledge. Liberty is the toil where toe arts and i‘ciences have fiourilhed , and the more free a limit: has been, the more have the powers of the human mind been drawn tortn into action, and the greater number or brave men has it produced. VJith what luilre do the an- titrnt iree llaies of Grate thine in the annals of the world? How tillTCl'Cnt is that country now, under the Great Turk? The difference between a country inhabited by men, and by brutes, is not greater. Theie are reflections which {hould be conl'tantly prefent to every mind in 'his countryu-u-As Abra! Liberty is the prime bleiiing ol man in his private capacity, to is Civil Liberty in his [rub/1r capdt‘ity. There is nothing that requires more to he warty/Jed than power. There is nothing that ought to be oppoi'ed with a more determined reiolutiori than its encroachmtllts. Sleep in a hate, as [Identify/lieu lays, is always fol.lthd by ilavery. ' The people of this kingdom were once warmed by inch {entimer ts as thoie. Many a fycophant of power have they i'at‘i‘ificed. Liberty. Often have they fought and bled in the caufe of But that time teems to be going. The {air inhe- ritance of Liberty left us by Our ancei'lors many of us are not unwilling to refign. An abandoned venality, the infeparablc companion of diihpation and extramgance, has poifoned the ipiings of public virtue among us :‘ ~And fhoultl any events ever ariie that {hould render the oppofit-ion neceflary that took place in the times of King Char/£5 the Firi'r, and 79mm the Second, 1 am afraid all that is valuable tous would be loft. The terror of the {landingr army, the danger of the public funds, and the all-corrupting influence of the treafury, would deaden all zeal, and produce general acquiei'cence and fervility. S I", C T. 1- Sec Dr. Prictllcy on Government, 3212; 65, 6-9, Sm. III. Of the Aid/rarity of one Country war amt/Jar. ROM the nature and principles of Civil Liberty, as they have been now explained, it is an immediate and neeellary inference that no one community can have any power over the property or legiflation of another community, that is not incorporated with it by a juf'c and adequate reprefentation.--- Then only, it has been lhewn, is a {late free, when it is governed by its own will. But a country that is {ubjeét to the legiflaturc ofauother country, in which it has no voice, and over which it has no controul, cannot be {aid to be governed by its own will. Such a country therefore, is in a Fate of flavery. And it defervcs to be particularly confidered, that fuch a flavery is worfe, on {everal accounts, than any flavery of private men to one another, or of kingdoms to deipots within themfelves.---~Between one date and another, there is none of that fellow-feeling that takes place between perfons in private life. Being detached bodies that never {ec one another, and refiding perhaps in diflereiit quarters of the globe, the {late that governs cannot be a witnefs to the {offerings occafioned by its oppreflions ; or a competent judge of the circumi'tances and abilities of the people who are governed. They mutt alfo have in a great degree feparatc interefis; and the more the one is loaded, the more the other mav be eaied. The infamy likewifc of oppreflion, being in fuch cireumflances Ihared among a multitude, is not likely to be much felt or regarded.-----On all their: accounts there is, in the cafe of one country fubjugated to another, little or nothing to check rapacity; and the molt flagrant injultiee and cruelty may be praélifed without remorie or pity.-~--~l. will add, that; it is particularly difficult to {bake of? a tyranny of this kind. A tingle defpot, ifa people are unanimous and refolute, may be {con fubdued. But a defpotic {late is not ealily {Ubu Jed, and a people fubjeéi: to it Cannot emancipate themfelves Without entering into a dreadful, and, perhaps, very unequal contefl'.‘ I cannot help obierVing farther, that the {lavcry of a people to internal defpots may be qualified and limited; but I don't fee what can limit the authority of one fiate over another. The exercife of power in this cafe can have no other mealure than difcretion; and, therefore, mutt be indefinite and abfolutm ‘ Once |