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Show 36 COMMON SENSE. man afl'irs, he will become convinced, that it is infinitely writer and fafer, to form a conflitution of our own in a cool deliberate manner, while we haveit in our power, than to troll (rich an interefling event to time and chance. If we Omit it now. firm" "‘ Vlafl'anello may hereafter arife, who laying hold or popular d:fquierudes, may. colleét together the deitierate and «he dilc-mtenied, and by affirming to them{elves the powers of government. tray fweep away the liberties of the. c-intinent like a deluge. Should the government of America re:urn again into the hands of Britain, the tottering titration of things, wil be a temptation for fame delpeiate adventurer to try his fortune; and in fuch a cafe, COMMON SENSE. 37 England are prefenting addrefl‘es againfi us. There are injuries which nature cannot forgive ; the would ceafe to be. nature if {he did. As well can the lover forgive the ravilhet‘ of his mil'rrefs, as the continent forgive the murderers of Britain. The Almighty hath implanted in us thefe uncxtin. guifhable feelings for good and wife purpofes. They are the guardians of his image in our hearts. They diflinguiih us from the herdofcommon animals. The focial compafl would dlir-ch, and juflice be exiirpate‘d the earth, or have only a. cafua. exiflence were we callous to the touches of affection. The rubber, and the murderer. would often efcape unpuniih- what relief can Britain give ? Be {he could hear the news, ed, did not the injuries which our tempers fultain, provoke us into i rilice. the rats! huh-refs might be done a and ourlrlves {offering like the wretcherlBritons under the onpreflion of the Conqueror. the twanny, but the tyrant, f'rand forth l Every fpot ofthe old 0 ye that love mankind ! Ye that dare oppofe, not only Freedom hath been hunt- Ye that ogrn le independance now, ye knew not what ye world is overrun with opprefhon. d r; ye are opening a door to eternal tyranny, by keeping ed round the globe. vacant the feat of'govevnmsnt. There are thoufands, and tem of rhoulanls, who won d think it glorious to expel from her --Europe regards her like a (hanger, and England hath given her Warning to depart. O ! receive the fugitive, and prepare in time an afyllum for mankind. the continent, that barbarous and helliih powe', which hath flirted up the Indians and Negroes to deltroy us, the Cruelty hath a doah'e guilt, it is dealing brutally by us, and treachemufly by them. To talk .rf friendthip with ihofe in whom our reafon forbids us to have faith. and our alieélions wounded through a thoufand pores inilruét us to detell, is madnefs and fully. Afia, and Africa, have long expelled O/Ibeprefent ABILITY ofAMERICA, witb fame mi/cel/amau: REFLEXIONS. Every day wears out the little remains of kindred between Have never met with a man, either in England or Ame; rica, who hath not confclTed his opinion, that a feparation between the countries, would ta kc place one time or o- us and them, and can there be any reafon to hope, that as ' ther: And there is no inflance, in which we have fliewn the relationfhip expires, the affcétion will increafe, or that lei. judgment, than in endeavoring to defcribe, what we cal the ripenefa or fitnefs oi the Continent for independance. As all men allow the meai'ure, and vary only in their 0- we iltall agree better, when we have ten times more, and greater concerns in quarrel over than ever? Ye that tel us of harmony and reconciliation, can ve re- flore to us the time hat is pail? Can ye give to prollitution is former innocence? Neither can ye reconcile Britain and America. The lafl cotd now is broken, the peeple of England * Tbamar lire/la. atberwifi llhflbnello, a fi/btrman of Nap/u wbn after [writing up bi: countrymen in tbs public mmbrr place. agui'n/I tbs oppreflim of (be Spaniardr, tn wbom rim place was rbm fu/ajfi. prumpted rbm to revolt, and in tbs jpare of a day became King. pinion of the time, let us, in order to remove miltakes, take a general furvey of things, and endeavor, if poflible, to find out the wry time. But we need not go far, the inquiry ceafes at once, for, the time barb found 11:. The general concurrence, the glorious union of all things prove the fafi. It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great {liength lies ; yet our prefent numbers are fuflicient to repel the force of all the world. The Continent hath, at this time, the his gcft body of armed and difciplined men of any power under Heaven 5 |