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Show OBSERVATIONS ONTHE AAIERICAN REVOLUTION. . H E eil‘orts of G-reat~Britai11 to reduce theii: United States being now almoit brought to a period ; it is properthlit the citi7ens ofAmerica ihould look 1 ver the irrountl they have troald'n. This becomes necellary111 Oider that the pitiLntzD(renti1ation may fully c0211p1‘ehend thofe two points which poilerity indeed will pe1ceive at a i1n0le"lance, but which it is of im- p01t21nce to the conicie1ces of men to be Well imormed of now. For certainly it becomes us to know mat the contei't which hath emancipated our country, oririnatcd with our enemies, and hath been bv the in urged 011 for lt1e pinpoies of dommt on. 11.1.. :le on our part every itep hath been tuLen coniiitent v.it1poil1ble fatety to deprecate their vengeance and avert t.1e calamities 01' war. FOR the better underfznding this important fill\:C&, we mui‘r take '1 curlory vet 1 of the Br:t1 {l1 colonies before the revolution, previous to \"heh it may be nae- hairy to make fome few remarks 011 the ci1c1'mli1nce o. colonization. This tho' it introduced ne" inc ilents not to be met with111 the anti:nt l1i1tor2e13 ct hum?n affairs, neither did or could introduce 3..1y new realon or new maxims of juftice. THE great principle therefore is and ever will remain in force, that MEN ARE BY NATURE FREE. As accountable to him that made them, they mutt be {0; and {0 long as we have any idea ofd(ivine juilice, we muf't aflociatc that of human ireedom. VThether men can «par: with their liberty13 among the queflions which have i ' A 25‘1" exeicil'ed |
