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Show COMMON SENSE. ea. will [a]? my time." Should a thought to fatal and unman- COMMON SENSE.' 23 pinefs, and will always have the fame efl'cfi. Nothing ly poliefs the colonies inthe prefent conrefi, the name oi ancellors will be remembered by future generations with can be more fallacious than this kind of argunient.We may as well alliett that becaule a child has thrived upon mirk, that it is never to have meat, or that the fill} twenty years of our lives is to become a precedent lor the next [Wfifly. detettation. The: {on never lhined on a caufe of greater worth. 'Tia not the affair of a city, a county, a province, or a kingdom, but of a contirien'--r>fat leat‘rl one cigh it part of the habitabe globe. 'Tis not the concern of a day, a year, or an But even this is admitting more than is true, for l anfvver roundly.that America would have flouriihed as much, and and probably much more, had no European power had any age ; goiterity are virtually involved in the contcft, and will thing to do with her. be more or leis slicéted, even to the end of time. by the enriched herielf are the necrfl‘aties of life, and will always proceedings now. have a market while eating is the cufiom ofEnrope. But {he has proteéied us, lay lome. That the hath engroli‘nd us is true, and defended the continent at our expence Now is the feed time of continental union, faith and honor. The leafl fracture now will be like a name engraved withnhe point of a pin on the tender The, commerce, by which {he hath rind of a young oak ,the wound will enlarge with the tree, as well as her own is admitted, and the would have defend- and pofierity read it in full grown characters. ed Turkey from the fame motive, viz. the lake of trade and dominion. Alas, we have been long led away by ancient prejudices, and made large factifices to fuperl'titinn. We have hoai'red the proteéiion of Great Btitai'n, Wilh'tut conlirlering, that her motive was inert/i, not attachment; that {he did not proteét us from our enemies on our account, but from fur enemies on her own act-aunt. from thole who had no quarrcl with us on any atber account, and who will always be our enemies on the/am: amunt. Let B itain wave her By relerringthe matter from argument to arms, anew ' a for politics is Rruck ; a new method of thinking hath artien. All plans, propofals, 8.0:. prior to the nineteenth of April, 1'. e. to the comnvtcement oi hoflilities. are like the almanacks of the lafl year ;whit;'ri, though proper then, are fuperccdt-d and ut'eleis now. Whatever was advanced by the advocates on either tide of the queflion then, terminated in one and the fame point, viz. a union with Great- Britain ; the only difference between the parties was the method at effséiing it ; the one propofing force, the other triendihip ; but it hath in far happened that the firft hath failed, and the fecond hath withdrawn her influence. As much hath been {aid of the advantages of reconcilia-' tion, which, like an agreeable dream, hath pallcd away and left us as we were, it is but right. that we lhould examine the contrary fide of the argument, and inquire into {omeof the many material injuries which thefe colonies fui'tnin, and always will l'uflain, by being conneé'ted with, and dependant on Great-Britain. To examine that connexion and dependance, on the principles of nature and common . fenfe, to ice what we have to unit to, if l‘eparatcd, and what we are to expeé'l, it dependant. I have heard it Iaifl'erted by fame, that as America hath‘ flourilhed under her former connexion with Great Britain, that the fame connexion is neceffary towards her future hap/ pitteiit pretenfwns to the continent, or the continent throw of the dependence, and we thould be at peace with France and Spain were they at war with Britain. The mifeties of Hanover lafl: war ought to warn us againft connexions. It hath lately been aflimed in parliament, that the colonies have no relation to each other but through the parent country, i. e. that Pennfylvania and the Jerfeys, and {0 on for the wit, are filter colonies by the way of England ; this is certainly a very round about way of proving relationlhip, but it is the neareit and only true way of proving enemyfhip, iii may in call it. France and Spain never were, not perhaps ever wil' be our enemies as Americana but as our being lhE/uljffit of Great Britain. . But Britain is the parent country, fay {ome. Then the more (hame upon her eondufl. Even brutes do not devout their young, nor ravages make war upon their iamilies; wherefore |