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Rh And urely the Declaration of the American Congre is an inult offered to every one who bears the name of Briton. For in conidering the preent contet between Great Britain and America, it is a truth which deerves our peculiar attention, and which therefore cannot be too often repeated, nor too trongly inculcated, that the dipute is not, nor ever has it been, between his Majety and the whole, or any part, of his ubjects. The dipute is clearly between one part of his ubjects and another. The blow given by the Congres appears indeed to be levelled at his Majety; but the wound was intended for us.

For let us eparate in idea, o far as they can be eparated, the interets of the King from thoe of his ubjects: And let us, for the ake of argument, uppoe—what I trut we hall hereafter mot fully diprove,—that the preent contet took its rie from a claim et up by Parliament to the exercie of uncontitutional, unprecedented power over the Colonies: What in this cae had his Majety to gain by upporting the claim

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