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Show mm...",.~.avW1'-"'-"4""‘ i 32 SENDING COMMISSIONERS TO THE CONGRESS . is to caioie and deceive; and that large promifes, lies, bribery; and corruption, are the means they will ufe. I befeech you to lend all your fpirit and Vigour to the Congrefs on the occafion. want it. Depend on it, they will Pray them to take one decilive ftep-s-to fend orders to the Commander in Chief in each province to arrefl: faid Commifiioners, in the name of the Thirteen United Colonies, as foon as they fet foot on (lime, and fend them, under frrong guards, to the Congrefs, with the firiéteft injunétion that they be permitted to fpeak with no man, befides the guards and their fervants , until they arrive in Philadelphia; and that, as foon as they arrive, a deputation from Congrefs wait upon them, and afk them this one plain queition,---Have you authom rity to order home your fleets and armies immedia tely? If they anfwer in the negative, then to break off all farther conference, and fend them off that irritant to the enemy's head-quarters, with this information, That we fcorn as much to treat with a dagger at our hreafis, as we difregard their forces. If they anfwer in the af~ int firmative, then to aifure them, that, as foon as the intelligence of their fleets and armies arrival in Great~ Britain {hall have reached America, the confere nce {hall he opened, and not before :-that they, in the mean time, {hall be kept in fafe cuftody, treated like gentlemen, but not permitted to correfpond or converfe with the inhabitants before the treaty is completed. Every hour {pent in conference with Commilfioners before this takes place, is an hour. loft to America, and two gained to Great-Britain, befides the immenfe damages which will arife from the powers of deceit and Corruption: Englilh gold, Government promifes, penfions , titles, and every art which malice, cunning, and religious hy- poerify can invent or ufe, will be played off againlt ourIiberties. 'l hele, judicioufly applied, will convert fuch among the great as have not virtue and integrity to withltand their force; and you will be fold, without pocketing a penny of the price. Withou t porketing, did l fay? Nay, yourfelves muff pay it. Hard lot indeed! But if you have not virtue and fpirit liifiicient [Q 33 to hippo-rt the Congrefs in exe for your fecurity, you deferve it.cuting thefe meafures I horting you to keep on the watch- conclude by ex lofe not fight of the army by looking at the Prime Minifler, Parliament, and Commiflionets. One bold firoke will effectually defeat the machinati ons of the latt er, and then the former will fiand alone and unf upported, and a fecond Vigorous exertion will‘crufh thei r evil deligns againfl: your liberties. Remember thef e Commiflioners are the wooden horfe which is to take thof twelve years holtility could not rede by flratagem whom uce Laocoon; {trike the dagger into his . Aét then like brealt, and never permit your credulity or inaflivity to give the perjured Sinon an opportunity of making a worn-out, deluded, or corrupted Whig, the altar on which to offer up your deanbo ught privileges. CA SS P. S. 1 (ball be told, this would be trea A N D R A. ting the Com- miflioners too cavalierly. To this I anfwer , men comina on fuch an errand cannot be treated too much {0. Le: any one thew the leaft mark of a deli gn in Adminiftration to rclinquiih their claims, and I will treat them with the utmolt ceremony and refp ecft. I will publifh an ancient tzflimwy in their own favour, if it can be but coniidered as doing them honour . For though, I rrult, Iihall never profiitute a pure and holy religion to pay my court to men, though the y be kings, yet I will do any an errand. right thing,r for thofe who come on Io good QUESTIONS and ANSWERS. IS the floppage of our exports to Grea t-Britain, and its dependancies, a political meafure? They who afiert that the meafure is impolitic, argue thus. -It is the interelt of every country to export its produce, and to import as little as poflible of the luxuries and manufaétures of other countrie S, the former en- tiChes, the latter impoverifhes the inhabita nts of a ? country |