Common sense: addressed to the inhabitants of America, on the following interesting subjects. I. Of the origin and design of government in general, with concise remarks on the English constitution. II. Of monarchy and hereditary succession. III. Thoughts on the present state of American affairs. IV. Of the present ability of America, with some miscellaneous reflections. A new edition, with several additions in the body of the work. To which is added an appendix; together with an address to the people called Quakers. N.B. The new addition here given increases the work upwards of one third.

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the Continent divide thereon, Do they train: within their new, all the various orders of men whofc filuatidn and cirFVmflances, 38 well as their own, are to be cirnfitlered there. 10. Do'they ,put themiclvca in the pl:ce of the fuffire: whole 41] is already gone, and of the (citizen who hath quit- ted all for the defence of his country. If their ill judged moderation be fuited totheir own private fnuaticns ml}, re- gardlefs of others, the event will convince them, that " they are reckoning without their Hoff." ‘ Putt", {aye fame, on the footing we were on in fixty-' three: To which i aniwer, the requefl is not now in the power of Britain to comply with, neither will‘fhe propofc it -, but if it were, and even fhtfuld be granted, I talk, as a ~ reafonable quefiion, By what means is iueh a corrupt and (lithlefs court to be kept to its engagements? Another parliament, nay, even the prefent, may hereafter repeal the obligation, on the pretence. of its being violently obtained, or unwifely granted; and in that caie, Where is our re- drelt I-No going to law with nations; cannon are the barriflers of Crowns; and the (word, not ofjuflice, but of war, decides the hair. ‘To be on the touting of {1ny three, it is not (efficient, that the laws only be put on the fame fiatc, but, that our circumflances, likewilc, be /put on the fame Hate, Our burnt and deflroyed towns repaired or built _ up, our private loiTes made good, our public debts (contrafted for defence) dilcharged; otherwife, we {hall be millions Ivorfe than we were at that enviable period. Such: reguefl, had it been complied with a year ago, would have won the heart and tool at the Continent-«but now it is too late. " The Rubicon is pafl'cd." Befides, the taking up arms, merely to enforce the repeal of a pecuniary law, {cents as unwarrantable by the divine law, and as repugnant to human feelings, as the taking Up arms to enforce obedience thereto. The objeét, on either fidc, doth not jufliiy the means; for the lives of men are too valuable to be call away on fuch trifles. It is the triolence which is done and thwatened to our perfons; the de- flrtiction of our property hy'an armed force; the'env‘afion of our country by fire and (word, which confcrenttoufly Qualifict tht ufehf arms ; And the irritant, in which iuch a ; i '7 . I ,, .- ~"""u wwfirtw- mode ' r V N ‘uk-‘Mrm. me, ~. ».; .t i _‘,,