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Show OF PROPRIETY i4 continent, tln' cultivation of the earth for the [ulzfi/lance of it: proprietor. Here was no feudal tenure from fome mid 15 which the conolifls have no voice at all, I do not yet underi'tand them; and if they do mean that we {hould litary lord ; every cultivator being the lord of his own admit the claim of any flate, or any part of the power of foil, and content with its produce, had no thoughts of any flare, with which the democratic power of this {late encroaching upon and fubjee‘ring his neighbour to his ab- is not incorporated, to give us law In any cafi whatever, folute dominion. Hence a handfome competency has enabled the bulk of the people to give their Children fuch an education as enables them to read, and become acquainted with the ufurpations of the (leepel't plotters of their ruin. The fpirit of the people for obtaining this neceii'ary information, is evident from the incredible number of nevrs-papers. and other periodical publications which they encourage, and the elieét of fuch in- they admit afiéra, which I mull make free to tell them, flitutions never have been f0 great in any community, yet known, as in thcle pautaplrbean (altogether commons) colonies. How quickly the molt important revolution of the fundamentals of our policy can pervade a conti- nent, may e gtiCllhd at by the progrefs of the idea of colonial indepentlancy in three weeks or a month at far- thell! Surely thoufands and tens of thoufands of common farmers and tradefmen mull be better reafoners than fome of our trammeled juris coir/altars, who to this hour feel a relué'tance to part with the abominable chain, which remaining, in any ihape whatever, though modified by all the wifdom and caution of the greatelt men now liv- u‘uiair INDEPENDENCY. will fpeedily grow into an iranflmw, which neither them~ {elves nor potterity will be able to endure or burl't afun- der. And further, it is not only the aclmillion of fome poflible law from a foreign power, that hurries a people into flavery; a meer negative power on ails for the re- peal of grievous laws will more flowly, but as certainly, fubvert liberty. Again, Mr, Hume's obfervation, [Per/"ea? Common- wealr/J, p. 301.] that " the {word being in the hands of a fingle perfon who will always nag/elf} to dzfiz'plz‘ne tlye militia, in order to have the pretext to keep up aflandz'ng army;" and the fucceeding one, " that this is a mortal all/{rm er in the Britt/l1 government, of which it mu/l, at lyi, inevitably perifla," now f0 fatally confirmed, may be a fuficient warning to the colonies to [aware of being again entangled will) ti): ya/ée of bondage. Many objeét to a republican government as imprafiicable in a large l'rate. " The contrary of this (lays Hume) [Pen (Jam. 302.] feems evident. Though it is more difiicult to form a republican government in an exing, mull in a very little time dragthe colonies into the once it is formed, of preferving it {teady and uniform, without tumult or faé‘tion, in the former than the latter. obtruded on mankind, lknow not the meaning of the delled with mafterly (kill, there is compafs and room term! Civil [fluffy never was defined in fiiiéter terms than an EXEMPTION fit-m all mztraal, WITHOUT THE CO M M UNITY, in w/Jirlr 51*er qua/{fled member has an equal . .1. "NW".ww-mw‘ax tenfivecountry than in a city ; there is more facility, when molt abjeét fiavery. Many profefs themfelves zealous for the liberties of America, yet declare an abhorrence of the idea of independancy on Great Britain. If this be not a folecifm, as abfurd and irreconcilcablc as ever was 'L‘azcc'. No American, as inch, has the fhadow of in- corporation with the government of Great Britain; and n1 conlequcnce, if he receives the leall fyllable of law from that quarter, he gives up his claim to the definitive exemption. It the flicklers for alepandanre do not mean (Per. Com. 303.) ln a large government, which is moenough to refine the democracy from the lower peOple, who may be admitted into the tirft elections, or firft concoClion of the commonwealth 3 to the higher magiilrates who direéi all the motions. At the fame time the parts are f0 difiant and remote, that it is very dillicult, either by intrigue,mprejudice, or pafiion, to hurry them into meafures againit the public interell." Hume. DEMOPHILUS. dependanCe for tome certain laws, in the forming of which Thus far Mr. CZ flRKUlflw |
