With what kindneſs they repay benefits, they are now ſhewing us, who, as ſoon as we have delivered them from France, are defying and proſcribing us.
But if we will permit them to tax themſelves, they will give us more than we require. If we proclaim them independent, they will during pleaſure pay us a ſubſidy. The conteſt is not now for money, but for power. The queſtion is not how much we ſhall collect, but by what authority the collection ſhall be made.
Thoſe who find that the Americans cannot be ſhewn in any form that may raiſe love or pity, dreſs them in habiliments of terrour, and try to make us think them formidable. The Boſtonians can call into the field ninety thouſand men. While we conquer all before us, new enemies will riſe up behind, and our work will be always to begin. If we take poſſeſſion
