us at no loſs: And every line convinces, even in the moment of reading, that he who hunts the woods for prey, the naked and untutored Indian, is leſs a Savage than the King of Britain.
Sir John Dalrymple, the putative father of a whining jeſuitical piece, fallaciouſly called, "The addreſs of the people of England, to the inhabitants of America," hath, perhaps, from a vain ſuppoſition, that the people here were to be frightened at the pomp and deſcription of a King, given (though very unwiſely on his part) the real character of the preſent one: "But," ſays this writer, "if you are inclined to pay compliments to an adminiſtration which we do not complain of (meaning the Marquis of Rockingham's at the repeal of the ſtamp-act) it is very unfair in you to withhold them from that Prince by whoſe nod alone they were permitted to do any thing " This is Toryiſm with a witneſs! Here is idolatry even without a maſk: And he who can calmly hear and digeſt ſuch doctrine, hath forfeited his claim to rationality—an apoſtate from the order of manhood, and ought to be conſidered—as one, who hath not only given up the proper dignity of man, but ſunk himſelf beneath the rank of animals, and contemptibly crawl through the world like a worm.
However, it matters very little now, what the King of England either ſays or does; he hath wickedly broken through every moral and human obligation, trampled nature and conſcience beneath his feet; and, by a ſteady and conſtitutional ſpirit of inſolence and cruelty, procured for himſelf an univerſal hatred. It is now the intereſt of America to provide for herſelf. 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 ſupport a power, who is become a reproach to the names of men and chriſtians.—Ye, whoſe office it is to watch over the morals of a nation, of whatſoever ſect or denomination ye are of, as well as ye, who are more immediately the guardians of the public liberty, if ye wiſh to preſerve your native country uncontaminated by European corruption, ye muſt in ſecret wiſh a ſeparation.—But leaving the moral part to private reflection, I ſhall chiefly confine my farther remarks to the following heads:
Firſt,—That it is the intereſt of America to be ſeparated from Britain.
Secondly,—Which is the eaſieſt and moſt practicable plan, Reconciliation or Independence? with ſome occaſional remarks.
In ſupport of the firſt, I could, if I judged it proper, produce the opinion of ſome of the ableſt and moſt experienced men on this Continent; and whoſe ſentiments on that head are not yet publicly known. It is in reality a ſelf evident poſition: For no nation, in a ſtate of foreign dependence, limited in its commerce, and cramped and fettered in its legiſlative powers, can ever arrive at any material eminence. America doth not yet know what opulence is; and although the progreſs which ſhe hath made ſtands unparalleled in the hiſtory of other nations, it is but childhood, compared with what ſhe would be
