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Show t 52 ) ( 53 made, or ought to have been made, whofe re;cital did not exprefs the fources from whence ) fince,‘ the douljle Cabinet, as Mr. Burke calls the Confiitution, or iizdz'refl from other Aé'ts of Parliament founded on the Conf'ritution, or from general Cuf'toms, or particular Cuftoms, which make the Common Law of the Land. Look from .Magmz Clmrta, through every de- them, has made an infamous life. They knew' not where to look for the Right of Taxation. They found it in this Aet, and have [0 tyrannized under it, that America has now ftainped its foot upon it, and will never flit a ftep until " this tyranny b'e overpafl'." Every ifland in claratory Law, down to the 116? of Settlement, the Weft-Indies look upon it with terror. and it will be found that they are, every one of them, in perpetuum m' z‘e/lz'monlum, or telli- Ireland fee it with a jealous eye: For who is the Caiuifi, that can difcriminate between a monials only of what had lztj'bre exif'red: But Britifh parliamentary Right to tax America, this Law is declaratory not only of what never and a Britifh parliamentary Right to tax Ireland ? The cafe is the fame. The Right has been avowed in Parliament, and add to the thofe Rights are derived; whether dz'reé? from exifted éefbre, but of a Right, againf't which common ufizge, which is the common Law of the Lmzzz', has been in direé'r oppofition. I fay in direé't oppofition, for America, from beyond the memory of man, nay, even from the very firf't date of its civil exif'rence to the era of this reign, has been uninterruptedly ufed to the internal Taxation of itfelf. This Law therefore mull: be repealed. _As it was enacted for the dignity of this country, {0 forjuftiee fake, which is the true dignity of this country, let it now be repealed. It, is againi't Right, and ufurped Power cannot up- hold it. It is true the motives that brought it into being were intentionally upright, but with the patronage of the Author of thofe motives, All 6. Geo. 1. ch. 5. or Irifh declaratory Aét, the words only, " in all 64/635 wlamjbewr," and the matter is at iffue: but Iizexpc'dz'mcy prevents the exercife. Iizexpezllmcy! curfe on the term! What may be lit/expedient to-day, maybe exfezllem‘ to-morrow. Im'xjéc'dz'eizcy is as the tyrant's fword, that hangs over tne head, fuf- pended by a thread; and which Dz'flrez‘z'm ‘only is to keep from falling. But are Englifhmen to be thus wort/ed out of their Rights? Forbid it, Common-Sonic! Or rather let the fixed Principles of the Englifh Conl'litution, and the eternal Rights of Humanity, be the filter Fates to cut this Thread of Danger, by ef'tablifhing in its roonI-T/Jemfllver. the motives themfelves ceafed 3 and of the Aét ‘ fince, One word more. It may be further aiked, D 3 \Nhatl |