1  he  danger  then  that  impends  from  thie  prefent  unlverfally  difcon-
tpted  and  in/lamed  ftate  of  America,  arinng  from  thefe  caufes,  is
great  {  but  happily  it  may  be  avoided  with  eafe.  Remove  the  caufe,
And  the  effedis  will  ceafe ;  abolifh  the  whole  fyftem  of  American  laws
and  regulations  fince  1 764,  reftoie  them  to  the  flate  in  which  the
wifdom  of  our  forefathers  jplaced  them,  and  to  the  good  policy  of
which  two  centuries  have  given  their  moft  ample  approbation.  This
» ihe  method,  and  I  will  venture  to  fay  the  only  method,  of  re*
eflablifhing  the  peace  of  America  and  the  commerce  of  Great  Pritaia.
The  Americans  are  content  to  \3c/uhordinate ;  but  they  never  will  fubr
mit  to  be  enjla<ved.  It  is  not  a  time  for  trying  expedients,  there  is
not  a  temper  in  America  to  be  played  with ;  there  is  no  alternative,
dreadful  as  it  may  feem,  but  tO  exterminate  her  inhabitants  or  reftore
them  the  violated  rights  of  free-men.  Let  humanity,  let  jnftice,  let
wifdom  determine,  which  meafure  fhall  be  purfued.
After  a  particular  recital  of  the  various  complaints  of  the  Ameri-
cans, and  the  caofes  of  that  univerial  difcontent  which  hath  fpread
from  one  end  of  their  contiment  to  the  other,  this  zealous  remarker
concludes  the  .whole,  in  the  following  animated  iirain :

*•  Whoever  will  co/ifider  thefe  grievances,  will  perceive  how  ini-
pbflible  it  i^  that  any  people  impreiTed  with  the  leafl  fenfe  of  con-
flittttional  lih^y*  ihouW  ever  patiently  fubmittp  bear  them.    Their

tendency


taiieticy  is  too  ericlent ;  and  thd  tbtil  fabverfi6a«f  erefy  right  and
ftcnrity  derived  from  that  facred  eonftitution  for  which  ouranceilorft
Ibf^bt  and  cowjveredy  is  too  andenikble  a  confequence  of  them,  to.
