This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1774 edition. Excerpt: ... are therefore 1 fpeak it with grief 1 fpeak it with indignation we are flaves. "Miferabile vu/gus." A miserable tribe. A FARMER. LETTER VIII.' Beloved Countrymen, IN my opinion, a dangerous example is fet in the laft act relating to thefe colonies. The power of parliament to levy money upon us for raiting a revenue, is therein avowed and exerted. Regarding the act on this fmgle principle, I mufr, again repeat, and I think it my duty to repeat, that to me it appears to be unconftitutional. No man who confiders the condudt of parliament fmce the repeal of the Stamp-act, and the difpofition of many people at home, can doubt, that the chief object of attention there, is, to ufe Mr. Grenville's expreffion, "providing that the dependance and obedience dience of the colonies be aflerted and maintained." all the former glorious exertions of their abilities. A foreigner might be tempted to thinl; they are Americans, averting with all the ardour of patrio ifm, and all the anxiety of appreheniion, the caufe of their native land, and not Britons driving to flop their miflakco countrymen from oppreffing others. Their reafoning is not Only jufl; it is " vehement," as Mr. Hume fays of the eloquence of Demofthenes, "'Tisdifdain, "anger, boldnefs, freedom, involved in A continual Itream "of argument." Hume's Effay on Eloquence. Under the influence of this notion, inftantly on repealing the Stamp-act, an adt pafled, declaring the power of parliament to bind theie colonies in all cafes whatever* This, however, was only planting a barren tree, that caft a fhade indeed over the colonies, but yielded no fruit. It being determined to enforce the authority on which the Stamp-act was founded, the parliament having never renounced the right, as Mr. Pitt...