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Show 46 .COMMON this Continentfrom ruin. SENSE.‘ Butasit is non-e than probable that we mall never be without a CONGRESS every well Wifhcr to good order, mufl own, that the mode for chant? ing members of that body. delerves confideration. And , put it as a queflion to thofe, who make atludy of Imankindy whether rcptelentation and elcétion is not too great a powor for one and the fame body of men to pollifsi When W3. are planning for poflerity, we ought to remember,‘ that viri . tue is not hereditary. It is from our enemies that we often gain excellent max‘ ims, and are frequently furprired into realon by their miftaltes. Mr. Cornwall (one of the Lords of the Treafury) treated the petition of the New'York Affembly with con; tempt, hecaufe that houfe, he laid, eooiifled but of twenty {ix members, which trifling numher, he argued, could not with decency he put for the whole. We thank him for his involuntary homily." To CONCLUDE, however titange it may appear to fame. or however unwilling they may he to think to, matters not; but many flrong and firiking reafons, may be given to thew, that nothing can fettle our affairs lo expeditioufly as an open , and determined declaration for independance. Same of which are, r ' Firfl. It is the cuflom of Nations, when any two are at war,- {or tome other powers not engaged in the quatrel,. of to ficp in as mediators and bring about the preliminaries a peace; but while America ealls herfelf the Subieé't of bel Great Britain,_no power however well dilpofed {he may can offer her mediation. Wherefore, in our prefent flare , (we may quarrel on for ever. , _ ' or Slcflfid'y.-h is ‘unreafonable to fuppafem that France mean only, to Spain will give us any kind of atliflance, if we the make ufe of that aflifianee for the purpofe‘of repairing Britain 'h‘etween connexion the bleach, and firengthening by and America; becaufe, thot': powers w0uld be fufferers . > _ _ . the confcquenccs‘ .Tbtrd/j. . , It . , e 6 11951:! great "fifth, ' * 772% who would fully under/70nd of (late, [bould riad‘ a. to it titn ent'a rkpnf :qual and large a gimme flurgb'r political Défiui/itlam. |