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Show E so 3 E 5'! J they ought not to refuli: contributing to its flapper; Yet it is certain, that to any tax exaé‘ted by the Romans, the confent of no Jew was ever alked. Is it (0 then, that this original, this unalienable, this inrlcfeilihlc right, to which, in the turgid dialeél: of America, flit" 121w: gf‘ nature and of naturc'r God (life-:n'er whit is clear as denomination to all our wv/J'c'i'fl Iver/ire», that Without fuch confent, by whatever law or Quote the tax was impofed, it could he no better tlmnflizivfrzb/i) plank)" 1? Or knowing it, dial they tiifi'enible the matter, tzlte the aid of equivocation, that they might conceal it from the entitle every man, that no part ofhis pronerty can be alienated without his confent, was totally un- people, Zillil court the favour of the great? Virill any known to our Lord and his apol'deo '0? Did fir} not chrifi'ian utiirm tl is; and not rather, that, if they b it is indeed fiercely crzji‘oie that any who ev‘nii {livct‘y on timir fellow-creatures. whom they buy and fell like Clinic in the market (and {tune inch, it is thin, rare in the (‘07: my?) {iti‘ttlti have the ahfurd efirontery to adopt this language. if tlu y t'wzelly belies: their own rioélrine, n'hat opinion mutt they €l)ltl‘.lill of then'dllres, who can haughtily trample on wlnt they acknowledge to be the unalienable rights of I‘l'lalllililtl.' \‘Vill they dare to elude this. charge, by (‘ZCClz'ZI‘iHK that they Clo not: (:orilitler 375311!!! and Indium as of the human thicies? That they necrunt them healis, or rather worfe, one would naturally in 1:: from the treatment they too commonly give them. list } lazy," not yet heard, that they opezily profefs this hail known of fuel) a right, they would have fut"; nii'hetl their countrymen with this additional argu. went in fupport of their pie: ; ini'iruc‘ling them heeter in the prerogatives of the fpecies, which were not the let‘s theirs, becaufe they were [0 Rapid as not to find them out? Further, did the firlt publii'hers of the gofpcl never eileé‘t that Juries: was one country and Italy another, that the Jews and the Romans were two very dillnnt peoples, different in origin, manners, laws, and language, and of religions oppofite in every article and Opinion. How well does their contluet veiit'y what has been renizu‘kei with great juitice of all thot‘e repu‘ilicun incompatible? The argument would have been in,- levellcrs, who raife a clamour about {/55 Fifllill'al qua/if} of comparably {tron-germ their cafe than it isin our-pre- 71257.1, anti 251:5," {izdrylj'iéi'e r3515; that they mean only to {ent contefi, which admits only the plea. of difiance:. level all dizlizzelions above them, and pull (loun their fil' periers, at the fame time that they t'.":tnuize over "Mr ini‘cz'iors, and widen, as much as egiib'e, the tlliiz‘tECC between themfclves .nd thol'e belt-n" thezai. Indeed this Has Paul in particular acted the politician in this athtir? Has he {lirewdly given an ambiguous order to pay tribute to whom tribute is due, that on the one charaeler, if 1' unuerlland him rigrf‘t, is- given to the {outli- ein proxinccn, particularly Virginia and the Cafiiliuas by their celebrated patron Mr Burke. [tire his {pcech Iviarch, 1775.] Nay, 1/33 'IJM'U't/i of dami/zatirsr: 73 he exprell'ct l‘. it, exerciftd over the watches in their power. is by the A ‘ . ." " _ . LIAX‘JC m 1"" (li‘llli‘li‘i't‘, Converted into an argument Withtllelt‘112;)erlot"3,th€ liritilli legiflature, to treat theft Filly, tyrants with greater lenity than would be proper towards perfons more humble and immune. An ordinary genius would have deduced the oppofite conclufion; for if any people tiel‘erve 1054116 judgment without mercy, it is they rw/Joflm-w m merry. I do not fay however, that this ought to be our rule of dealingr with them. " Let mercy, tho‘ unmeriu ‘ ted, {till triumph over judgment.' 3 A favourite phrafe1 of the Congrel‘s, It .1 |