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Show 3:: COMMON SENSE. whole detef'table junto, is a matter unworthy the millions we have expended. A temporary floppage of trade, was an inconvenience, which would have fufhcicntly ballanced the COMMON SENSE. as bet? he will {offer no law to be made here, but {och as may the by ved enila ually efeét as be {uit bi: purpofe. We may for made laws to tting fubrni by as , want oflaws 'inAmerica repeal of all the aé‘ts complained of, had fuch repeal: been obtained; but if the whole continent mufl take up arms, if every man mutt be a ioldier, it is {carcely worth our while i to fight againft acontemptible miniflry only. Dearlv,dcarly do we pay for the repeal of the'aéts, if that is all we fight for ; for in a jail efiimation, it is as great folly to pay a Bunkerhtll price for law, as land. As 1 have always confidercd the it is called) us in England. After matters are made up (as the crown of r powe can there be any doubt, but the whole humble and low as nent conti will be exerted, to keep this ward back go (hall we rd forwa going of as poflible? Infi'ead ioning.- petit y uloufl ridic or g ellin quarr y tuall or be perpe to be, and We are already greater than the king withes us rndependancy of this continent, as an event, which former the er fays mt profperity, a proper power to govern us .? whoev cy means endan to this: qneflion is an independent, for indep or, or later mutt arrive, ft) from the late rapid prcgtefs of the continent to maturity, the event could not be far ofl‘. Wherefore on the breaking out of hottilities, it was not worth the while to have difputr'd a matter, which time Would have finally redrefl'ed, unlefs we meant to be in earnef‘t; otherwife it is like waiting an eflate on a fuit at law, to regulate the trcfpafl'es of a tenant,whofe leafe isjufl expiring. "No man was a warmer wither for a reconciliation than myfelf, before the fatal nineteenth of April r775 *, but the moment the event of that day was made known, I rejcéled the hardened, fullen tempered Pharaoh of England forever and dtfdatn the wre'ch, that With the pretended title of FA: THEIR or HIS PEOPLE can unfcignedly hear of their flaughter,and compofedly fleep with their blood upon his foul. 3:; badmfittmg thapt Imatters were now made up, what ‘ ' t: t e event. anf won And that for feveral reafonsfv", the film 0‘ the €00"?an Fuji. The powers of governing flill remaining in the hands of the king, he will have a negative over the whole legtflrtron of. this continent. And as he hath {hewn him- feit fuch an inveterate enemy to liberty, and difcovered fuch To bring will he not hereafter endeavor to make us leis? us of our jealo is who r powe the Is matter to one point. our own laws, no more than whether we {hall make continent bath, this y enem ll greate whether the king, the as butfucb or can have, {hall tell us " there/ball b: no law: I like." and; the But the king you will fay has a negative in Engl nt. In his confe people there can make no laws without hing very ridicug fomet is there , order good point of right and often happenlous, that a youth of twenty-v one (which hath and wife: older e, peopl ed) (hall fay to {everal millions of be law. to yours of aél: that or than himfelf, I forbid this h I will But in this placel decline this for: of reply, thoug anfwer, only and never ceafc to expofe the abfurdity of it, ca not Ameri and nce, that England being the king's refide bar: is ive negat s king' The cafe. fo, makes quite another it can be in Enten times more dangerous and fatal than nt to a bill conle gland, for there he will fcarcely refule his as poth- ce for putting England into as flroug a Rate of defena bill to be fuch {ufi'er never d ble. and in America he woul aired. a thirfi for arbitrary power ; is he, or is he not a proper man to fay to thele colonies, " Tau flmll maize no, laws but rebut I plea/2." And is there any inhabitant in America {0 in the fyfiem of Brip America is only a freondary object no ignorant, as not to know, that according to what is called the prefmr con/trmtion, that this continent can make no laws of our: in way own interctt leads her to fupprefs the growth or in the leafl tage, cafe which doth not promote her advan be in un{one d {houl we interferes with it. A pretty Rate has what ering confid , nment gover der fuch a fecond hand by ds frien to ies happened l Men do not change from enem the . > but what the king gives leave to; and is there any 'man it) unwtfe, as not to fee, that (confidering what has happened) ,‘ Maflam at Lexington. this country, tilh politics, England confults the good of her farther than it anlwers her own purpofc. Wherefore |