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Show ,QOMM'O'N S'ENSE. 43 ‘Vho will temnre his life to reduce his own countrymen (03 foreign ohcdience ? The difference between l'enntyl.‘vatria and Connecticut,- refpeéiing frtnc unlocatttl landr, fhews the infignihcance of a Britifh government, and fully :proves, that trolling but Continental authority can regulate Continental ma ms. ' ' Another rcafon why the prefent time is preferable to all others, is, that the fewer our numbers are, the more land there is yet unoccuPicd, which inflertd ef beir'g laviflred by the king on his worthlefs depcnlants, may be heteatter applied, not only to the difeharge of fire prefent debt, but to the confiant fupport of government. No nation under heaven hath fuch an advantage as this. The infant {late of the Colonies, as it is called, fo far from being againft, is an argument in favor ofinclependznce. We are'fufliciently numerous, and were we more fo, we might he lets united. it is a matter worthy ofobfervation, that the more a country is peopled, the [mailer their armies are. 'In military numbers, the ancients far exceeded the modems: and the reafon is evident, for trade being the eonfequence of population, men become too much abforh~ ed thereby to attend to any thing elfe. Commerce diminifhes the fpirit, both of patriotifm and military defence. And hiltory fuflieiently informs us, that the bravefi ments were always accomplifhed in the non age tion. With the increafe of commerce, England its fpirit. The city of; ‘I.ondon, notwithfianding atchievc~ of a nahath lot} its num- bers, fuhmits to continued infults with the patzcncc of a coward" The more men have to lc-fe, the lefs willing are they to venture. The rich are in general {loves to fear, and fubmit to courtly power with the trembltnw rlupltcrty ' ofa Spaniel. ' . , - . Youth is the feed of good habits, as well. my nations as in individuals. It might be ditlicult, if not impelfrble, to form the Continent into one governmenthalf a center}: hence. The vafl variety of in'erefls, cccafioned by an in- create oftrade and popularity). would create confufton. $.0lony Would be againft colony. Egch‘lwrng able m'llhf {cornxeach other'a nflil'lancc : and while the proud and-fool- "; , the~ wife would- ‘ "Etch3‘ dittinétions little d in their ilh .4 glone _ u, . -. '. - |