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Show POPULAR OBJECTIONs m the utmoft of their Power, and would invite. Great-Britain to aid and amll' them. The very Principle of‘Jt'aloul‘y, natural to all States, ell OB]dECTI()N n pecially to imall Republics, would ( rive them OW lhall we prevent the IVcfl-Indz‘a Illands from falling under the Power of the growing Empire of flmerim, in Cafe of a Sepa~ ration? ANSWER 1. Tm: Northern and Southern Colonies of America have, and ever had, an in- veterate Hatred and Antipathy againfl: each other. to thefe Meal‘ures. For they would immediately fee, that the Aggrandizement of their Rivals foreboded their own Dell'ruetion. And Great- Britain would at all Times be capable of hold: ing the Balance of Power between thefe little, querulous, fretful States, by never inclining it too much to any one Side, lo as to enable it to give Law to the red. ' And nothing prevents this from break- ing out into Action '* even at prelent, but the Apprehenfion of common Danger. Remove, therefore, this Apprehenfion, and then there will remain no central Attraction uniting them in one common League or general Aflociation. And without fuch a Confederacy, it will be im- poffible for any one of thefe Republic's to make the Conquelt here propofedm ANSWER 2. SHOULD two or three of thefe little Republics join together in fuch an Expe- dition, the relt would oppofe them of Courfe to ANSWER 3. SUPPOSE the worll;---fuppofl: all thefe Colonies firmly united together under one Head [we know not how, nor 'w/I)‘, nor w/zm] yet even in inch 3 Cafe, the paultry little lflands in the flmeriwn Seas would be no Objeé‘t ade- quate to the Ambition of filth an Empire. For after the lirlt Plunder was over, (and if Plunder alone was to be the Motive, it would not repay a tenth Part of the Ifixpence of the Expedition) nothing farther could be obtained from {uch Spots without continual hard Labour, i'relh Capitals, new Stocks of Slaves, a peaeeable Bartering of Goods, with a long commercial Intercourfe, Etc. 86C. V‘lhereas the rich and * See the .47mriran Pamphlet Plain Trut/J, in Anfwcr to American Cammon Sufi. large Countries of Mexico, Peru, and the Brazil: the bition, would be more likely objects to roufe their Am- |
