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Show ( 4° ) ( 4x ) be given? Is it then a rule, that no man in this nation lhall Open his mouth in favour of the Colonies, {hall defend their rights, or merce, which the wealth of this nation enabled you to defpife. When they found that neither prayers nor menaces had any fort of weight, but that a firm refolution was taken to re- duce them to unconditional~obedience by a military force, they came to the lafi extremity. Complain of their fufferings? Or, when war finally breaks out, no man {hall exprefs his defires of peace? Has this been the law of our Defpairing of us, they trulted in themfelves. pull, or is it to make the terms of our future couragement here lelferled, their difiance from connexion? Even looking no further than ourfelves, can it be true loyalty to any government, or true patriotifm towards any country, to degrade their folemn councils into fervile this country encreafed. The encouragement is over; the alienation is compleat. drawing-rooms, to flatter their pride and paflions, rather than to enlighten their reafon, and in dclulion, and to prevent all pofiibility of a to prevent them from being cautioned againft violence, left others lhould be encouraged to ments for our continuance in this courfe are drawn from the wretched fituation itfelf into refiftance! By fuch acquiefcence great Kings which we have been betrayed. and mighty nations have been undone; and being at war with the Colonies, whatever our fentiments might have been before, all ties between us are now diflolved ; and all the policy we have left is to {trengthen the hands of if any are at this day in a perilous fituation from rejecting truth, and lifiening to flattery, it would rather become them to reform the errors under which they fuffer, than to {6-, proach thofe who have forewarned them of their danger. Not {trong enough themfelves, they fought fuccour in France. In proportion as all en- In order to produce this favourite unanimity return to our antient happy concord, argu- Government to reduce them. It is faid, that On the prin- ciple of this argument, the more mifchiets we fuffet from any adminif'tration, the more our trufi in it is to be confirmed. Let them but But the rebels looked for afliflance from this country. They did f0 in the beginning of this once get us into a war, their power is then fafe, and an act of oblivion paft for all their controverfy molt certainly ; and they fought it mifconduét. by earnelt fupplications to Government, which dignity rejeéted, and by a fufpenfion of com5 ' merce, D 4. But "" TVWKEWfl-afiriw Wimwm:wa_;fi:nw§ 14 .3; 9'... 12:94.32 -I-1:Zl1"¢-t4 ‘r couraged to refift s" The very tendency of fuch projects to produce rebellion is one of the chief rcafons againfi them. Shall that reafon not |