author of the Reflections on Learning has rightly obſerved, that no man ever could give law to language, it will be vain to prohibit the uſe of the word ſlavery; but I could wiſh it more diſcreetly uttered; it is driven at one time too hard into our ears by the loud hurricane of Pennſylvanian eloquence, and at another glides too cold into our hearts by the ſoft conveyance of a female patriot bewailing the miſeries of her friends and fellow-citizens.
Such has been the progreſs of ſedition, that thoſe who a few years ago diſputed only our right of laying taxes, now queſtion the validity of every act of legiſlation. They conſider themſelves as emancipated from obedience, and as being no longer the ſubjects of the Britiſh Crown. They leave us no choice but of yielding or conquering, of reſigning our dominion, or maintaining it by force.
