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Show 34- i S E C T. (<3) V} inipoflible, [mic or ntz/ying can be done with it, mom will not hurt omyi'l-w: more than the Collar/it.""Such of their Of the Prolmfifféy of Succeeding m the [Var ref/£7 America. maritime towns as they cannot guard againll our lletxrz. and have not been already deltroyed, they are determined either to give up to our i'efeiitnierit, or ' dcllroy themfelvcr; : The c n, lequence of which will be, that thele towns will be rebuilt in infer fitnntions; and that we thall lofe {nine of the principal pledges by which we have hitherto held them in fubjec‘tions-N- ET us next cnfider how far there is a poflibility of (u; cecding in the preterit "73.31. . Our own peipie, being unwrlling to enli}, and the attempts to procure armies of Rujz‘msr, Indian: and Cmmdz'am, haying As to their trade; having all the necefliiries and the chief ntiicai‘ricd; the utmoll force we can employ, including fw‘r‘eig‘nefs, (1035 not exceed, if I am rightly informed, 30,000 cfl'iejttive men. Let it, however, be called 40,000. This is the force that is to conquer liulfa niiliionntvlczr/F of deter: mined men fighting on their own ground, Within light of their "is 1nd hurries, and for that {acred blefling of Liberty, With-cut w .ich man is :1 head, and government a curle. All hiriory proves, tliz: , in fuch a fituazlon, a handful is a match for millions. In the Z‘fcl/Jrr/tnzdr a few flares thus circumfianced, withfiood. Gr; thirty years, the whole force of the Spanii'h monarchy, when at its Lil-nith; and at loll humbled its pride, aid emancrpated themfelves from its tyr‘aiiny.«--The citizens of SYRACUSE alfo. thus circumltzmced, witlillood the whole power of the fit/amid": an nlmoit ruined tliem.~---lee fame happened in the contort between the horde ofii'ig/irnzz, and the cantons 1-0f Switzer/md. ----There is in this; etude an infinite difference between attack-A ing and beingr attacked; between fighting to air/fray, and fighting to prgf‘ri-a, or (Icy/(ire Liberty.----_Were we, there- fore, zipuble of employing a Mm! force ngamll: Amerzm equal to its own, there would be little probability oi luccefs. But to think of. conquering that whole continent wlth 30,000 or 40,00 men to he rnnfported tier-ole the. flr-lanrzc, and fed from hence, and incapable of being recrurted after any defeat----- This is indetd a folly {0 great, that lot f'uage does not afford ; nznne {or it. . With refprc‘t to our naml fez-Ce, could it'filil at land :15}: at fez, much might be done mth it; but as that 15 Impofiible, A quarter of the inhabitants of every country are fighting "'ellIf, therefore, the Colonies conlilt only of two milliono of inhabitants, tne number of fighting men in them will be halt a million. ~ convenieneies of life within thcmfelves, they have no depend- ence upon it; and the lots of it will do them unfpeakn. lo good, by prelbrving them from the eiils of luxury and the tenptations of wealth; and keeping them in that llzste oi: virtuous fimplicity which is the greateit hanpinelis. . know that I am now {peaking the fenfe of {Cine of the wili‘ii' men in America. It has con long their wilh that Brit/12>; would [but up all their ports. have grown weary of tl eir agreements not to export or import, But this aft will oblige them to keep the e 'tgreetncnrs; 3.2;: confirm their unanimity and zeal. It will alli) liirniih them with :1 realon for confilcating the ellates of all the friends of our government among them, and for employing their (others. who would have been otherwife idle, in making repriials on Britilli property. Their (hips, before ufclefs, and confilling of many hundreds, will be turned into {hips ofwnr; and all that attention, which they have hitherto confined to trade, will be employed in fitting out a naval force for their own defence; and thus the way will be prepared for their becoming, much fooner than they would otherwile have been, a great maritime power. This aft of parliament, therefore, crowns the folly of all our late mealhrenv-N'one who know me, can believe me to be dil‘poled to hiperllition. Perhnps, however, i am not, in the prelkent inltance, free from this weakness. ------- l fancy I fee in thefe Inenfures foinething that cannot be accounted for merely by human ignorance. I am inclined to think, that the hand of Providence is in them working to bring about tome great ends. ~~~~~ But this lend: me to one cenfiderution more, which i cannot help offering to the public, and which appears to me in the highezt derrree imprinting. in 15 See the Appendix to Dr. Zuhly's Sermon, preached at the npcng log ol‘tlie Provinciil Congrei‘s at 05093113. They will rejoice, particularly, in the hilt reliraining act. It might have happened, that the people wonkl NEW-YORK has been long drfcrtcd by the greater'l part or the inhabitants; and they are deienninctl to burn it tf':;*.‘\:'.lv: ., rather than {utter us to burn it. |