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Show (57) In thi; hour or" '1‘ v.9 :3: danger, it would become u: turn our thoughts . f m r fl his is whatrour brethren the Colonies are doing. From one. end of [Var/[r 17175377542 the other, they are FAsrtrzonnd, PRAYI'N'G: llut what are we doing P--~Shocl:iug thought! ye are ridictlmg them .113 Fours/Eu, 21nd {Golfing at rCllglOiL------I-\VC are running Wird after leeufut'e, and tic-getting er. thing ferrous and (recent at Ala/fizrrm/nr. ------ We are, (It'lfllbllllgdn gaming-heme; ; trallicking for Boroughs; perjurinfj; (rudely/es at Lleé‘uons, and telling ourlélves for places. ------ ‘Nlnch fide then 13 Proxidence likely to favour ? ‘ ‘ 1n Amrn'm we fee :1 number of iifing flates in the Vigcur of youth, infpircd by the noble": of all pallions, the pnfiion for being free; and animated by piety. ----- If we lee an old ll" t great indeed, but inflated and irreligious; enervnred by luxury: encumbered with debts; and hanging by :1 thread. ------'--'L‘:m any one lock without pain to the illite? May we not expect calamities that {ball recover to @35an (perhaps to {timer/ion) our Libya/5m; and //t/;3.jfl'r P ‘ Is our mule inch :15 gives us reuion to all: God to blefs: it? «mu-"Cm vse in the face ofheaven declare, "that we are not ' the agr>relfors in this war; and that we mean by it. not to zuuuiicu or men pretexve dominion for its own felze; not C"-ti(;u<‘ii', or empire, or the gratification of role ‘ ‘Yll'; but folely to deliver ourfelvce from oppreffion ; .L r partition for injury,- and to 3. fend ouriehres againft men who would plunder or kill .21" P ember, reader, Loexfir thou art, that there are no other} ": Carries of war; :and that blood fpilled, with. ny other views, mud: "me time or othcr be accounted fer.---'---~But n .t to erpole i'rzjylislt~ by {living more in this way, lwill now beg leav'e to recapitulate fame of the arguments I have old; and to deliver the feelings all" my heart in a brief, but earn-oft atldrel‘} to my countryZLL n. l mu hearing it continually uxu J\ ' Are they not cut t:LjCtis."------i--'l‘l:e plain airliner is, they are not your {ub- tl:. The people of A'merira are no more the {ubje‘drotr . , ,.x :le of Brim/v, than the icopfe of Yer/v" rl‘j" 1e lubjefis , .I Ht v 6 people of. rlq'z'd'zlyhx. They 3:3. your 1‘7 "'7 r . ‘ 5/1275, v' But raw: are taxed; and Why 9:01:71. not #35} be taxed 1‘ " u? 'cu are taxed by yourfilzw. 'ii‘hey infill: on the ' pn- ----- 'l'h:‘y zue taxed to bloom; their own governments; :1 p, r? and they help alfo to pay your taxes by purchafing your manu~ flrélures, and giving you a monopoly of their trade. Mull they maintain two governments? Mult they fubmit to be trip/e taxed P---Has your moderation, in taxing yourfelves, been fuch as entourages them to truft you with the power of taxing them ? " But they will not obey the Par/iammt and the Larwr. " ~-~»Sa y rather, they will not obey your parliament and your laws. Their reafon is: They have no voice in your parliament. They have no {bare in making * your laws. ----" Neither have mafl ofus."----Then you {0 far want Libert y; and your language is, "We are not free, Why will they be free ?"----But many of you have a voice in parliament: None of them have. All your freehold land is reprefented: But not a foot of their land is reprefented: At worll, therefore, you can be only enflaved pm‘t:'a/_/y.---They would be enflav cd totally.--~-They are governed by parliaments chofcn by them- {elves, and by legiflatures fimilar to yours. Why will you dil‘turb them in the enjoyment ofa blefling f0 invaluable? ls it real'onable to infill, that your dil‘cretion alone {hall be their law; that they {hell have no conltitutions of government , ex" cept inch 215 your parliament {hall be pleafed to leave them 9-- What is your parliament ?---Powerful indeed and refpeétable: Eutis there not a growing intercourfe between it and the court r" Does it awe minifters of [late as it once did P Inflead of contending for a contrculing power over the governments of Am;rim, fhould you not think more of watching and rcform in your own .P-~-Suppo{e the worfi. Suppofc, in oppofition to all their own declarations, that the Colonifls are now aiming at H independence " " I have no other notion of flavery, but being bound by a law. " to which I do not content." See the cafe of Ireland ‘s bung bound by ails of parliament in Eng/amt, fluted by William Mo- lyneux, Efq; Dublin.-----In arguing igninfl the author Communities, and all people not incorporated, overity of one another, Ibave confined my views to taxati on and internal legiflation. Mr. Molyncux carried his views much farther; and denied the right of England to make any laws even to regulate the trade of Ireland. He was He intimate friend of Mr. Locke; and writ his book in 1698, foon after the publica- tion of Mr. LoCke's Treatife on Government. that I have {aid in Part 11%. Scét. 3d, of lubjtéling a number of (tatrs into a general council reprelénting them all, I l'uppofe every one mutt confider as entirely theoretical ; and not a propofal‘of any thing I with mly take place under the Blitilh Empire. |