advantage,or in the least interferes with it. A pretty state we should soon be inunder such a secondhand government, considering what has happened!Men do not change from enemies to friends by the alteration of a name:And in order to shew that reconciliation now is a dangerous doctrine,I affirm, THAT IT WOULD BE POLICY IN THE KING AT THIS TIME, TO REPEALTHE ACTS FOR THE SAKE OF REINSTATING HIMSELF IN THE GOVERNMENTOF THE PROVINCES; in order, that HE MAY ACCOMPLISH BY CRAFT AND SUBTLETY,IN THE LONG RUN, WHAT HE CANNOT DO BY FORCE AND VIOLENCE IN THE SHORT ONE.Reconciliation burberry outlet and ruin are nearly related.SECONDLY. That as even the best terms, which we can expect to obtain,can amount to juicy couture outlet online no more than a temporary expedient, or a kind of governmentby guardianship, which can last no longer than till the colonies come of age,so the general face and state of things, in the interim, will be unsettledand unpromising. Emigrants of property will not choose to come to a countrywhose form of government hangs but by a thread, and who is every day totteringon the brink of commotion and disturbance; and numbers of the presentinhabitants would lay hold of the interval, to dispense of their effects,and quit the burberry outlet online continent.But the most powerful of all arguments, is, that nothing but independence,i.e. a continental form of government, can keep the peace of the continentand preserve it inviolate from civil wars. I dread the event of areconciliation with Britain now, as it is more than probable,that it will be followed by a revolt somewhere or other, the consequencesof which may be far more fatal than all the malice of Britain.Thousands are already ruined by British barbarity; (thousands more willprobably suffer the same fate) Those men have other feelings than us whohave nothing suffered. All they NOW possess is liberty, what they beforeenjoyed is sacrificed to its service, and having nothing more to lose,they disdain submission. Besides, the general temper of the colonies,towards a British burberry outlet government, will be like that of a youth,who is nearly out of his time; they will care very little about her.And a government which cannot preserve the peace, is no government at all,and in that case we pay our money for nothing; and pray what is it thatBritain can do, whose power will he wholly on paper. should a civiltumult break out the very day after reconciliation! I have heardsome men say, many of whom I believe burberry outlet online spoke without thinking, that theydreaded an independence, fearing that it would produce civil wars.It is but seldom that our first thoughts are truly correct, and thatis the case here; for there are ten times more to dread from a patched upconnection than from independence. I make the sufferers case my own,and I protest, that were I driven from house and home, my property destroyed,and my circumstances ruined, that as man, sensible of injuries, I could neverrelish the doctrine of reconciliation, or consider myself bound thereby.The colonies have manifested such a burberry outlet online spirit of good order and obedienceto continental government, as is sufficient to make every reasonableperson easy and happy on that head. No man can assign the least pretencefor his fears, on any other grounds, than such as are truly childishand ridiculous, viz. that one colony will be striving for superiorityover another.Where there are no distinctions there can be no superiority,perfect equality affords no temptation. The republics of Europeare all (and we may say always) in peace. Holland and Switzerlandare without wars, foreign or domestic: Monarchical governments,it is true, are never long at rest; the crown itself is a temptationto enterprising ruffians at HOME; and burberry outlet that degree of pride and insolenceever attendant on regal authority, swells into a rupture with foreign powers,in instances, where a republican government, by being formed on morenatural principles, would negotiate the mistake.If there is any true cause of fear respecting burberry outlet sale independence,it is because no plan is yet laid down. Men do not see their way daring fellow, in a brig of fourteen or sixteen guns might haverobbed the whole continent, and carried off half a million of money.These are circumstances which demand our attention, and point outthe necessity of naval protection.Some, perhaps, will say, that after we have made it up Britain,she will protect us. Can we be so unwise as to mean,that she shall keep a navy in our harbours for that purpose?Common sense will tell us, that louis vuitton outlet the power which hath endeavouredto subdue us, is of all others the most improper to defend us.Conquest may be effected under the pretence of friendship;and ourselves after a long and brave resistance, be at last cheatedinto slavery. And if her ships are not to be admitted into our burberry harbours,I would ask, how is she to protect us? A navy three or four thousand milesoff can be of little use, and on sudden emergencies, none at all.Wherefore, if we must hereafter protect ourselves, why not do it for ourselves?The English list of ships of war, is long and formidable, but nota tenth part of them are at any one time fit for service, numbers of themnot in being; yet their names are pompously continued in the list, f only a plank be left of the ship: and not a fifth part of such as arefit for service, can be spared on any one station at one time.The East and West Indies, Mediterranean, Africa, and other partsover which Britain extends her claim, make large demands upon her navy.From a mixture of prejudice and inattention, we have contracted a falsenotion respecting the navy of England, and have talked as if we shouldhave the whole of it to encounter at once, and for that reason, supposed,that we must have one as large; which not being instantly practicable,have been made use gucci outlet of by a set of disguised Tories to discourageour beginning thereon. Nothing can be farther from truth than this;for if America had only a twentieth part of the naval force of Britain,she would be by far an overmatch for her; because, as we neither have,nor claim any foreign dominion, our whole force would be employed onour own coast, where gucci outlet we should, in the long run, have two to one the advantageof those who had three or four thousand miles to sail over,before they could attack us, and the same distance to returnin order to refit and recruit. And although Britain, by her fleet,hath a check over our trade to Europe, we have as large a one over her tradeto the West Indies, which, by laying in the neighbourhood of the continent,is entirely at its mercy.Some method might be fallen on to keep up a naval force in time of peace,if we should not judge it necessary to support a constant navy.If premiums were to be given to merchants, to







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