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Show or the other more uuufual accidents of Nor is it the worfl effect of this unnatural The act of which I have faid fo much is manners remain entire, they will correél the vices of law, and {often it at length to their nature. contention, that our laws are corrupted. Whill'c among the fruits of the American war; a war, own temper. in my humble opinion, productive ofmany mifChiefs of a kind, which dillinguilh it from all molt of the late proceedings we fee very few others. nity of mind, which formerly characterized this nation. War fufpends the rules of moral Not only our policy18 deranged, and our empire dillraeted, but our laws and our legiflative fpiiit are in danger of being totally pe1ve1ted by it. We have made war 011 our Colonies, not by aims only, but by laus. As hoflility and law are not very concordant ideas, every Prep we have taken in this bu- But we have to lament, that in traces of that generality, humanity, and dig- obligation; and what is long fufpended is in danger of being totally abrogated. Civilwars firike deepeft of all into the manners of a people. They vitiate their politicks; they tablifhed, and what principles overturned, (I will not fay of Englifh privilege, but of ge- corrupt their morals; they pervert even the natural taile and relilh of equity and jiullice. By teaching us to confidei our fellow- citizens in an hollile light, the whole body of our nation becomes gradually lefs dear to us. The very names of afrtclion and kindred, neral jullice , in the Bolton Port, the Malla- which were the bond of charity whilll we chufets Charter, the Military Bill, and all that long array of hollile ails of parliament, by which the war with America has been begun and fupported? Had the principles of any or" thefe acts been firl't planted 011 linglifh ground they would probably have expired as loon as they touched it. But by being removed from our peri‘ens, they have rooted in agreed, finefs, has been made by tiampling 011 {ome maxim ofjul'tice, or fome capital piinciple of wife government. VV'hat piecedents were el- our laWs; and the latelt pollerity' will tulle the fruits of them. Nor become new incentives to hatred and rage, when the communion of our coun- try is dillolvcd. Vie may flatter ourlblves that we {hall not fall into this misfortune. But we have no Charter of exemption, that lknow of, from the ordinary fi'ailties of our DREUFC. ‘vVhat but that blindnels of heart which miles from the 1phrenly of civil contention, could have made any perions (anceive the (I 3. piefent a :- M;mn.,.-aw~a-<qr-xswaps-4". [213 l 20 l |