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Show t 3+ J fl‘here is no middle way. The divine precept is {olely in favor r of obedience; to difobey is in {38: to decide in favour of an exception, which, unlefs it be glaring, ought never to be fuppofed to exift. In reyard to it the law is filent. It is not of the fpirit of the law to put eXtraordinaI‘y cafes. It leaves fuch, ') from the manifefl‘ urgency and importance of the circumliances, to lug-cell the necellity of a deviation from the rule. To rtffl has been, with the greatell jull‘ice, ftyled in the body politic a ale/perm: reme- afy, as it brings into the molt imminent hazard its very exif'tencc; it would then be no other than diftraélion to employ it, if we were doubtiul whether the difeafe of the Rate were de/fierate, or even perhaps whether {he laboured under a difeafe or not. If difo~ bedience and reliltanee are to be regarded as by all [=25] In the-fe obfervations I have all along argued from what both reafon and fcripture {how to be the end of government", public utii'iz‘y, a principle fufficientl y .fipmple and intelligible, and from which alone every juft linnratitizn may mlily be deduced. I have not mentioned fife" oir'igiizalcompaéi‘, one of the hackneyed z' flow mutljudge foriti‘ell', when it ought tohe exercifell. But was it ever deduced as a confequence, that this right canno t mean lefs than a rag/Er in every people to make war an every other, whenever iii-gr ruin-"2215i! mirrjizry P On the contray," thole " who involve a people in it fift'dltf/lb‘," I we th * objector's Own words, " will find they have much to aufwer For. Nu . " thing can everjjltil‘y it, but the neeeffity of it," ( lively he means real, not fdffiy/F‘J, or pretended, necellity, for this is never wanting-\ " to fecure fome Lfléntial interell againfl un" jull; :ittackij." Have- lhey lel‘s to anti-net for, who kindle a civil war. of all kinds the melt dreatll'ul? ‘R'ill lefs ferve t0 jufiify iii-w-mlu this particular. our republicans have wife and good men they have ever been regarded) as advanced higher claims in ihvour at hell but neceflhrv evils, common fenfe requires, that votaries to the patriarchal {theme ever did in favour of the fo-vcreigfz. "the former {maple not to at'cribe areal famili- we be convinced of the neceflity, before we recur t0 the evil. 3 3 It does not overthrow this fyl'tem, as has been objcf ted, that the people muiljudge, whether in any exige ncy that 3‘ rifes, they oughtto recur tr reliltance; nor does it follow, that they have arzg/it to. refill, whenever they thin/é it needfary. Theirright commences with the real, not with the z'magz'md, mar/11974 Theyjudge therefore, and mull confider themfelves asjudging, in peril of incurring by ralh judgment; the complicated guilt ofmurder, rebellion, and the worfi of parricides, the defiruction 0" their count ry. Autecedently to every aetion that can he called a man's own, he mull both judge and determine. But did ever any body conclude hence, that he has a right to do whatever he deter mines- in other words, that he cannot determine wrong? " War i; a dread‘ "' fulev il." ‘ Yet one nation haxa right to make war on ano- ther M cerium (afar. Now, if there is fuch a right, every natt- bz'lz'ty to the multitude. of the page, tha' the' l ne'er heard of any of {hr latter, however bigoted to the principle of divine, hereditary inc defeafible right, tin-:1. attrihute-zi fo much ofilivmit; to the monarch. Tizefe will not hefiiate tw :ulnnt that a ‘I ins; may be a tyrant, tiio‘ ii thei: judgment, it does not belong: to the nation either to check, or to chafilt‘e him, whereas the former will not allow that the people ever can be ref/alt. I am hopeful, however-r. they will not maintain that the people every Where. and ir- al] ages, have been endowed with this 27:- fai'i'ibz'e difcernment 0‘?" what is necefl‘ary. \Vill they fay that the lfraelites in the wildv‘rnefs were pell‘ellbd of it when they compelled Aaron to make the golden calf, and celebrated a feliival in its honour: or when, upon hearing the report of the fire, they tunnzlivoully clamoured for the election of a captain to lead men) back to Egypt: Yet they iten‘l‘to have been almofi unanimous in thinking thel'e meafures auto; Lute} y mwflary. |