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Show '08 EOMMON‘SENSE. A P P E N D I X. it could not have brought it forth, at a more feafonable 'unél-ure, or a more neccfl'ary time. The bloody mindednefs of the one, flew the neceffity of purfuing the doctrine of the other. Men read by way of revenge. And the Speech, inflead of terrifying, prepared a way for the manly . principles of Independance. Cer any, and even, filence, from whatever motive they may attfe, have a hurtful tendency, when they give the leafi degree of countenance to hair: and wrclred performances; wherefore, if this maxim be admitted, it naturally follows, that the King's Speech, as being a piece of finifhed vitlany, '49' to be frightened at the pomp and defeription of a king, given, (though very trnwifely on his part) the real charaéter of the prefent one: " But," fays this writer, " if you are inclined to pay compliments to an adminifirat'ion, which we do not complain 0f," (meaning the Marquis of Rockingham'a at the repeal of the Stamp Act) " it is very unfair in yota to withhold them from that prinCe, 5v abofl NOD ALONR' they were permitted to do any tbz'r‘rg." This is toryifm with a witnefs ! Here is idolatry even without a maflc: And he who Cat) calmly hear, and digefi fach doctrine, bath forfeited his claim to rationality-~an apoflate from the order of deferved. and hill deferves, a general exec-ration both by manhood; and ought to be confidered-as one, who hath the Congrefs and the people. not only given up the proper dignity of man, but funk him- Yet, as the domcflic tran- quility of a nation, depends greatly, on the rim/lity of what may properly be called NATIONAL MANNERS, it is often better, to pat: fome things over in filent difdain, than to make ufe of fuch new methods of diflike, as might introduce the lead innovation, on that guardian of our peace and fafety. And, perhaps, it is chiefly owing to this prudent delicacy, that the King's S,-,eech, hath not, before now, {offered a public execution. The Speech if it may be Caticd one, is nothing better than a wilful audactous libel agatnflt the truth, the common good, and the exifience of mankind; and is a formal and pompous method of offering up human facrifices to the pride of tyrants. But this general maflacre of mankind, is one of the privileges}, felf beneath the rank of animals, and contemptibly crawl through the world like a worm. However, it matters very little how, what the king of England either faya or does; he hath wickedly broken through every moral and human Obligation, trampled nature and confcience beneath his feet ; and by a Ready and. confiitutional fpirit of infolence and cruelty, protured for himfelf an univerfal hatred. It is new the interefl of Ame- rica to provide for herfelf. She hath already a large and young family, whom it is more her duty to take care of, than to be granting away her property, to fuppo‘rt a pOwe-t‘ who is become a'reproach to the names of men and chriflians-Y3, whofe office it is to watch over the morals of: and the certain confcquence of Kings 3 for as nature nation, of whatfocver feet or denorrrination ye are of, as well knows them not, they know not Im, and although they are beings of our own creating, they know not at, and are become the gods of their creators. '1 he Speech hath one good as ye, who, are more immediately the guardians of public liberty, it We wifh to pt'eicwe your native country uncon- taminated by European corruption, ,ye muff in feCret with quality, which is, that it is not calculated to deceive, nei- a feparatiott-But leaving the moral part to private reflecti- ther can we, even if we would, be deceived by it. on, i f‘mll chiefly confine 'my farther remarks to the follow-t lity and tyranny appear on the face of it. Bruta- It leaves us at no loft: And every line convinces, even in the moment of reading, that He, who hunts the woods for prey, the naked and untutored Indian, is left a Savage than the King of Britain. Sir John Dalrymple, the putative father of a whining jefuitical piece, fallacioufly called. " 7b: addn/r of tbe puo ing heads. I Ftrlt. That it is the intereft of America to be feparated frbm Britain. Secondly. Which is the eafiefl and moflt praaicabld plan, Raconcrtm'now or INDEPENDANCE i with {ome occaiional remarks. pl: of ENGLAND to rb: inhabitant: pf Amsrttcrt," hath, in fupport of the (Mt, I could, if Ijudged it proper, pro" perhaps, from a vain fuppofitiorr, that the people lure were to dune the opinion of fame of the ablefl and malt experien (ted fi met |