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Show (Ital (.15) But to return more direétly, to the argu» t!‘ do allure you, (and they who know me pub- ment of Mr. Burke, and admitting that " all " oppofition, where the namenot Amencafap» " pears, is vain and frivolous," and there ore that Mr. Burke was right U1. not debaltlmlg _ " lickly and privately will bear witnefs to me) " that if ever one man lived, more zealous againi'c the ‘Bill, the fame realon mull oh good in every cafe of oppofition where t.e Now if I canth join with fame circumi'rances mill: .for not to debate in this ini‘tance, and to debate in another, A where " the name of America appears, mutt be " than another, for the fuprcmacy of Parlia" ment, and the rights of this imperial Crown, 5‘ it was myfelf." Mr. Burke in this folemn declaration of his, I trul't, it will not he therefore imputed to me, that ‘I am leis zealous than he is for the rights of the Britifh Legiflature; nor ifI object to the terms of his propofition {hall Ibe condemned wrong. [Both cannot be right. iAnd their)? fore Mr. Burke's repeated propofitions foa hy as captious; for to cavil does not belong to me, made, and {0 well fupported, for Peace, mig t Objeétions to taxes, and more efpecially about words. But when I fee, and know, and am perfuaded, that thef e in aid of, this def'rruétive war, were unnecefla. ‘ very modes of fpeech, fizpremaey of Parliament, have been difpenfed with. ry. In fhort all debate was 8‘ Time mifpent, and language mifapplied :" for " all oppofition is vain and frivolous, where " the name of America appears, - Having thus Rated the reafons, and examined the motives that occafioned a dyfi'erence 22; con,dué? between Mr. Burke and me 5‘ Ilhall now? turning over thofe many leaves of .hlS letter, e which, were I to take any notice, it muff be in rngts qu‘laz's imperial Crown, with their kindred others, unity qumpz're, allegiance t0 the State, and fuchlike high-founding fifgaz'pea'alta ‘veréa, by becoming, in defiance of their impropriety, the deities of modern invocation, and by ope- rating as incantations to miflead mankind, have done more mifchief to the State even than the {word itfelf of Civil War; be their authority ever ['0 great, I can never fubfcribe to their ufe. Supremacy of Parliament is a combination of terms unknown to the Englifh polity; and as to allegiance to tlze State, though it be the admiration and in praife, proceed. to that part of it wherein our dlflereizce m opzmqn Prevailsl. fanétified phrafeology of an Archbifhop, it is, And here, in page 46, Mr. Burke fays, 4" Bil‘tdo like the " Whiggifm" he cenfures, allegiance ff run |