againſt intentional depravations of Government as human wiſdom can make us, and upon this ſecurity the Americans may venture to repoſe.
It is ſaid by the Old Member who has written an Appeal againſt the Tax, that as the produce of American labour is ſpent in Britiſh manufactures, the balance of trade is greatly againſt them; whatever you take directly in Taxes, is in effect taken from your own commerce. If the miniſter ſeizes the money with which the American ſhould pay his debts and come to market, the merchant cannot expect him as a cuſtomer, nor can the debts already contracted be paid.—Suppoſe we obtain from America a million inſtead of one hundred thouſand pounds, it would be ſupplying one perſonal exigence by the future ruin of our commerce.
Part of this is true; but the Old Member ſeems not to perceive, that if his brethren of the Legiſlature know this as well
