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Show (14) up properly alieaing .onrfelves, and to offer (15) of Britifh our own facrihees at the altar neratmg the country from which they l‘prung', contending that a forced devotion and pouring their gifts into her lap when their empire; h has a is idwlatrv, and that no power on eart graeious right to come in between ‘ ,us and a V t . loyalty, or foyereign, to mealure form our mt. to grant our property, without our (on/ countlels thoufands {hall far exceed hers. IT was our wilh that there {liould he an eternal " \rVitnefs bCi‘W‘SCn our bretl‘ren and us; that if a" any Future period. amid the rited THESE are the principles we inhe depart from Britons themielvesi Could we ihifting feenes of human interel'n and human ards from them, we {hould be deemed ball and not Ions, aliens and not brethren, children-"Ye have no portion" in the birth- alibitions, their Children {liould {av to our right of Britons, and lo Tech to pull} them from the common lhrine of Freedom, when T n E altars thereibre which we have built, are not 'X‘ high or rival altars to create jealoufy, but humble monuments oiour union and love; intended to bring7 millions yet unborn, from en very corner of this yal't continent, to bend at the great parent-altar of Britilh liberty; ve~ nerating '3 In this refpet‘t, our plea is even [tronger than that of the two tribes and a half. For, till an ex~ planation was given, the [5131"! oftheir altar, like thole ofthe heathen, who loved to {acrifice on lefty places, might create a fttfpieion of their " lapt'ing " into idolatry; either intending to worlhip other 3‘ Gods, or the God of Ifrael in an unlawful place 5". and manner." 13p. PATRICK, they come to pay their homage there; they might always have an aniiter ready--" Be~ hold the pattern of the altar which our Fa- thers built," Behold your own religious and civil infiitutions, and then examine the frames of government and {yllerns of laws railed by our fathers in every part of America! Could theie have been {itch exaét copies of your own if they had not inherited the fame fpitit, and fprung From the fame Hock, with yourfelves. THUS far you fee the parallel yet holds good, andl think cannot be called a perverfi~ on ofniy text; ifyou will allow that the f' prenie Y1) 'J 3‘! C I' |