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Show '32 COMMON SENSE. . the alteration of anrme: And in mdm é thew hatremfiu ciliatirn is new a dangerrtus ds' fliire. l dirt. that start/d h pelic; {71th Hag at tbit time, to refeal (:t/ the t J}; 1 lb" file afrrr'rflatirg him/elf in the goon 71mm! 0/ tbs ft what; 3-3 COMMON SENSE. have heard fome men fay, many of whom, I believe, fpoke without thinking, that they dreaded an independance, tearing that it would produce civil wars. It is but {eldom that out firi‘l thoughts are truly correa, and that is the cafe here, in order, that HE AAY ACCOMPLHH BY CRAFT MD for theve is ten times more to dread from a patched up can3 SUBTIL‘TY. I'N 'I'PF. 1.31511. RUN WHAT Hr CA Not" Do BY FObC- AND vtoLt hCE IN THE stiou'r CINE- nexion, than from independanee. R‘c~:nciliation ant: ruin 316 only rested. ' Second/fly. That as men. the bell (CHILE which we can expcéi to obtain. can amrunt to no more than a temporary expedientmr a land ti government by gumdiat (hit, iiilmh can latt no 'ottprr than till the co'ot-irs (,t me It age. to he genera‘ {ace and {law of things, in the interim. Wt ‘ be unfett‘ed and unp'romihug. Emigrarts of property will not check to crme to a Country vvhofc form or g. vernment hangs but by a thread, and who is every day tortuing on the hurt of cm motion and d Ptuvhance; and numbers of the piet'eni inhibivants would lay ho‘dlof the interval to" (hippie of ll‘ttll ifftéis, and quit the" continent. ' b Bot the m R powerful of all arguments, is, that nothirg ut Independence, i. e. a continental farm of government loan keep the. peace of the continent, and prefetve it invio- wiifhmlgitzlirl [3:25- a: itire-ad the event of a tece-nciliation 'i be followed l; is more than probable, that}; I make the fufieters cafe my own, and I protefl. that were I driven from houie and ‘. home, my property deflroyed, and my circumflances ruin- .ed, that as a man, ienfible of injuries, 1 could never reliih the doétrine of reconciliation, or confider myfelf bound thereby. The colonieshave manifefled fuch a fpitit of good order and obedience to conttnental govesnment, as is iufiicient to make every reafonab'e perfon eafy ard happy on that beat]. No man can aflign the leafi pretence for his tears, on any tether grounds, than furh as are truly childtih and ridiculous, viz. that one colony willtflrive for fuperiority over another. Where there are no difiinfiions these can be no {uperiolity, perfeét equality afliirds no temptation. The repub'ic! :of Europe are all (and we may fay a'w.ys) in peace. Holland and Swiiletland are without .wats. foreign or domeflic: :Monarchical governments, it is true, are never long at left; the crown itfelf is a temptation to ente-prizing ruflians a: borne; and that degree of pride and infolenre, ever attendant on regal authority. {wells into a rupture with foreign pow. cwolnfCQuencrs of Willa}: disilchb man" of Brim". y c{037° 01h", morewill: atal 0'than all lb: the ers, in irritant-es, where a republican government, by being unfaitgdxr5,2221%;"irsifih‘?is"? b?'*'""i; "m": formed on more natural prinupies, would negociate the miflake. If these is any true caufe of fear, refpeéting independance, T t . . . , . ', have other feclin s than us who it , m?! a") l "f9 men they mw' tin-{it {5%3 libcrt h ave nothing {ll-Ell": ‘ A" crificed y,dwhal-lh'y.bef.°'p {3" the d"dto _ itsr krum ., an avlng nothing enjoyed more toIslife, way out-Wherefore, as an opening into that bufinefs, I one: the following hints; at the lame time modefily affirm- c ly . it air. .uum fiion. Btfldt'S. the general trmpetofthe ing, that l have no other opinion of them myie f, than that soy‘éll'i:31:33:irg'ziii‘ufiirciifim' .w‘" be '3‘?" "‘3‘ "f they may be the means of givmg rife to fomething better. '5' little about her, Arid a t-‘ierniiiye‘c 9 ""Efthdi. C3" "9' it is becatiie no plan is yet laid dowri. Men do not tee their Could the (haggling thoughts of individua's be colleéied, they would frequently form materials for wife and able men fervethe peace, is no marge", ' ab, 'r!" and i" X Cin that "mm" 7. at raiepref we to improve into uleful matter. pay our money for melting; and may what is it En land can do, while noisier Will be wholly on part-er. fhtuldga Cl: LE F theaifemblies he annual, with a P'rfident only. The repreft-ntaiion mote equal Their bulinefs wholly do- ml tumult bier}; but the my dayaftcr a reconciliation ‘? I mefiic. and tubjeét to the authority of a Continental ConLet E grcfs. have |