Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1775 Excerpt: ...you therefore, my dear Sir, to impute these lines not to a petulant itch of scribbling, but to the most unfeigned solicitude for (he futuie tranquil lity of your mind, and for your reputation. I sincerely lament the infatuation of the times, when men of such a stamp as Mr. Burgoyne nd Mr. Howe, can be seduced into so impious and nefarious a service by the artifice of a wicked and insidious court and cabinet. You, Sir, must be sensible that these epithets are not unjustly severe. You have yourself experienced the wickedness and treachery of this court and cabinet. You cannot but recollect their manœuvres in your own select committee, and the treatment yourself as president received from these abandoned men. You cannot but recollect the black business of St. Vincent's, by an opposition to which you acquired the highest and most deserved honour. I shall not trouble, you with my opinion of the right of taxing America without her own consent, as I am afraid, from what I have seen of your speeches, that you have already formed your creed upon this article: but I will boldly affirm, had this right been established by a thousand statutes, had America admitted it from time immemorial, it would be the duty of every goad Englishman to exert his utmost to divest parliament 9s this right, as it must inevitably work the subversion of the whole empire. The malady under which the state labours is indisputably derived from the inadequate repre:ntation of the subject, and the vast pecuniary influence of the crown. To add to this pecuniary influence and inco'mpetency of reprefenta tion, is to insure and pr. cipitate our destruction. To wish any addition dan scarcely enter the heart of acitizen who has thelenft spark os public virtue, and who is at the fame time capable o...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1775 Excerpt: ...you therefore, my dear Sir, to impute these lines not to a petulant itch of scribbling, but to the most unfeigned solicitude for (he futuie tranquil lity of your mind, and for your reputation. I sincerely lament the infatuation of the times, when men of such a stamp as Mr. Burgoyne nd Mr. Howe, can be seduced into so impious and nefarious a service by the artifice of a wicked and insidious court and cabinet. You, Sir, must be sensible that these epithets are not unjustly severe. You have yourself experienced the wickedness and treachery of this court and cabinet. You cannot but recollect their manœuvres in your own select committee, and the treatment yourself as president received from these abandoned men. You cannot but recollect the black business of St. Vincent's, by an opposition to which you acquired the highest and most deserved honour. I shall not trouble, you with my opinion of the right of taxing America without her own consent, as I am afraid, from what I have seen of your speeches, that you have already formed your creed upon this article: but I will boldly affirm, had this right been established by a thousand statutes, had America admitted it from time immemorial, it would be the duty of every goad Englishman to exert his utmost to divest parliament 9s this right, as it must inevitably work the subversion of the whole empire. The malady under which the state labours is indisputably derived from the inadequate repre:ntation of the subject, and the vast pecuniary influence of the crown. To add to this pecuniary influence and inco'mpetency of reprefenta tion, is to insure and pr. cipitate our destruction. To wish any addition dan scarcely enter the heart of acitizen who has thelenft spark os public virtue, and who is at the fame time capable o...
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