2.4 OF t ABILItY OF AMERICA, ItIONS

        I     fessed    a separatiories, ake plae time or otance, in o describe, ness of ti for independence.

        As all men alloime, let us, in order to remove mistakes, take a general survey of to find out time.    But    go far, t once, for, tIME h FOUND US.

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        It is not in numbers, but in unity, t reat strengt our present numbers are suffit to repel the world.

        ti    time, t body of armed and disciplined men of any po t pitgto support itself, and ted,    aplister, a be fatal in its effects.    Our land force is already suffit, and as to naval affairs,    be insensible, t Britain o be built,    remained in    branc trutimber of try is every day diminis, ,    to procure.

        ere ti ts,    circumstances olerable.    t too lose.    Our present numbers are so ioo our s, t no man need be idle.

        tion of trade affords an army, and ties of an army create a nerade.

        Debts ra t o of our virtue.        leave posterity tled form of gover, an indepe stitution of its o any price o expend millions for tting a fes repealed, and routing t ministry only, is uy most cruelty; because it is leaving t o do, and a debt upon tage.    Suc is unrue ceristic of a narroi.

        t ract dot deserve ard, if t aplision ougo be    a debt.

        A national debt is a national bond; a, is in no case a grievance.    Britain is oppressed    of uperling, for .    And as a pensation for , s a debt, and    a navy; yet for tiet of tional debt, could     time, more terling.

        t and sed editions of t ions, imation of t.

        [See Entiaval ory, intro.    page 56.]    te, and furniss, yards, sails and rigging, togetion of eigsers seastores, as calculated by Mr. Burct, Secretary to the navy.

        [pounds Sterling]     For a s is easy to sum up t ratis    its greatest glory sisted of t of one.Cost of all 6 -     100     -35,553- 213,31812 -90     -29,886- 358,63212 -80     -23,638- 283,65643 -70     -17,785- 764,75535 -60     -14,197- 496,89540 -50     -10,606- 424,24045 -40     - 7,558- 340,11058 -20     - 3,710- 215,180 85 Sloops, bombs,    and fires    3,266,786    Remains funs,_________    233,214_________3,500,000     No try on tuated, or so internally capable of raising a fleet as America.    tar, timber, iron, and ce are ural produce.    e need go abroad for notcs by    to tuguese, are obliged to import most of terials they use.

        e ougo vie as an article of erce, it being tural manufactory of try.    It is t money .

        A navy .    And is t nice point in national policy, in ion are united.    Let us build; if    t,    means replace our paper currenanning a fleet, people in general run into great errors; it is not necessary t one fourt should he sailors.

        terrible privateer, Captaiood ttest e of any s     ty sailors on board, t of men wo hundred.

        A feruct a suffit number of active landmen in to begin on maritime matters timber is standing, our fiss out of employ.    Men of y and eig forty years ago i pride, and in he whole world.

        t empires of t are mostly inland, and sequently excluded from ty of rivalling her.

        Africa is in a state of barbarism; and no po of coast, or sual supply of materials.

        ure o Amerily    empire of Russia is almost s out from ts, ar, iron, and ce are only articles of erce.

        In point of safety, ougo be    a fleet?    e are not ttle people no t time ed our property is, or fields rat securely    locks or bolts to our doors or ered, and our met to improve y.    A on pirate, t y of Pant tribution, for her places.

        Nay, any daring felloeen or sixteen guns migi, and carried off half a million of money.

        tances ion, and point out ty of naval prote.

        Some, per after ai us.    ean, t s purpose? on sense ell us, t to subdue us, is of all ot improper to defend us.

        quest may be effected uence of friendser a long and brave resistance, be at last ced into slavery.    And if    to be admitted into our o protect us?    A navy ttle use, and on sudden emergencies,    all.

        er protect ourselves,    for ourselves?    t of s not a tent of t any oime fit for serviumbers of t in being; yet tinued in t,    f only a plank be left of t a fift of suc for service,    be spared on any oation at oime.

        t a Indies, Mediterranean, Africa, and ots over ends her claim, make large demands upon her navy.

        From a mixture of prejudid iion, ed a false notion respeg talked as if o enter at once, and for t reason, supposed, t     being instantly practicable,    of disguised tories to disce inning trutiet of tain, sc, o oage of to sail over, before ttack us, and tao return in order to refit and recruit.    And altain, by , rade to Europe, o t Indies, , is entirely at its mercy.

        Some met be fallen on to keep up a naval for time of peace, if    necessary to support a stant navy.

        If premiums o be given to mercs, to build and employ in ted y, ty, forty or fifty guns, (to be in proportion to to ts) fifty or sixty of tant duty,    navy, and t    burdening ourselves , in time of peace to lie rotting in to urengto eaal enemy.

        In almost every article of defense        ce.    Our iron is superior to t of otries.    Our small arms equal to any in the world.

        on    at pleasure.    Saltpetre and gunpo t ?     t e?    From Britain    not ruin.    If sted to t of America again, ti    be h living in.

        Jealousies ions antly o quell ture o reduce rymen to a fn obedieicut, respeg some unlocated lands, sis, and fully proves, t not tial auty    regulate tial matters.

        Anot time is preferable to all ot t unoccupied,    only to t debt, but to tant support of gover.    No nation under age at this.

        t state of t is called, so far from being against, is an argument in favour of independance.

        e are suffitly numerous, and were we more so, we miged.

        It is a matter ion, t try is peopled, tary numbers, ts far exceeded t.    for trade being tion, men bee too muco attend to anyt, botriotism and military defence.    And ory suffitly informs us, t t acs were always aplision.

        it its spirit.    ty of London, notanding its numbers, submits to tinued insults ience of a coo lose, to veo fear, and submit to courtly porembling duplicity of a Spaniel.

        Youtime of good s, as ions as in individuals.

        It mig, if not impossible, to form ti into one gover ury    variety of is, occasioned by an increase of trade and population, e fusion.

        y    y.    Eac s eace: and ins, t, t t been formed before.

        tIME is tRUE tIME for establis.

        timacy ed in infancy, and tune, are, of all ot lasting and unalterable.

        Our present union is marked ers:    our cord ood our troubles, and fixes a memorable are for posterity to glory in.

        t time, like peculiar time, ion but once, viz. time of f itself into a gover.

        Most nations    slip tunity, and by t means o receive laead of making la, t; , s, and men delegated to execute ter from tions, let us learn unity --tO BEGIN GOVER At t END.

        t of til , t t of gover, in America, be legally and autatively occupied, unate ruffian,    us in ty? As tion, I    to be ty of all gover, to protect all stious professors t o do t a man t narro selfiso part    delivered of    y.    For myself, I fully and stiously believe, t it is ty, t ty ious opinions among us: It affords a larger field for our    kindness.    ere ions    matter for probation; and on tions among us, to be like c is called, tian names.

        In page forty, I t a fes on ty of a tial Cer, (for I only presume to offer s, not plans) and in take ty of rementioning t, by , t a cer is to be uood as a bond of solemn obligation, o, to support t of every separate part, wy.

        A firm bargain and a right reing make long friends.

        In a fe I likeioy of a large and equal representation; and tical matter ion.    A small number of electors, or a small number of representatives, are equally dangerous.

        But if tatives be not only small, but unequal, tance of tion tors petition y-eig, all ty members, being eiged against it, and er members doies only, and t is alo.

        table stretc    sitting, to gain an uy over tes of t province, ougo    large, rust po of t of instrus for tes    toget of sense and business    doors, o t ill- ered on some necessary public measures, t ate a moment to trust.

        Immediate y makes many t, o oppressions.    Expediend rig things.

        ies of America required a sultation, t t time so proper, as to appoint persons from t purpose; and ti from ruin.

        But as it is more t    o t body, deserves sideration.    And I put it as a question to tudy of mankind, ion aion is not too great a poo possess?    erity,    virtue is not ary.

        It is from our e en gain excellent maxims, and are frequently surprised into reason by takes, Mr. reasury) treated tition of tempt, because t ed but of ty-six members,    for tary y.

        [tand of    sequence a large and equal representation is to a state, sical disquisitions.]     tO CLUDE, ra may appear to some, or o tters not, but many strong and striking reasons may be given, to s nottle our affairs so expeditiously as an open aermined declaration for independance. Some of    is tom of nations,     engaged in to step in as mediators, and bring about t    Britain, no poate we may quarrel on for ever.

        SEDLY. -- It is unreasoo suppose, t France or Spain ance, if o make use of t assistance ftioain and America; because, the sequences.

        ts of Britain, , in tions.    be sidered as rebels.    t is someo to be in arms us; ,    solve t to unite resistand subje, requires an idea mucoo refined for on uanding.

        FOURto to be publiscn courts, setting fortually used for redress; declaring, at time, t not being able, any loo live ion of tis, y of breaking off all es    time, assuring all sucs of our peaceable disposition t into trade s to ti, ted itions to Britain.

        Under our present denomination of Britiss, om of all courts is against us, and il, by an independance, ake rank ions.

        t first appear strange and difficult; but, like all oteps ime bee familiar and agreeable; and, until an independance is declared, ti self like a man ting off some unpleasant business from day to day, yet kno must be doo set about it, inually ed s of its y.
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