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( 14 ) if it were to give up our colonies we should lose—Illusion!—The income of your colonies your income? Just as much as that of Britain is your income. Have colonies then no properties? If they are theirs, how are they your's? Are they theirs and yours at the same time?—Impossible.—If out of a hundred millions, they spend or lay up a hundred millions, pray how much is there left for you? Can you take a penny of that income more than they choose to give you? or would you if you could?—We have no such pretension, unless it be over conquered colonies, in our land of what you call imperfect liberty.

Oh, but of this income of theirs a great part centers here: it comes to buy our goods: it constitutes a great part of our trade—all this at least we should lose. Another illusion—Must you govern a people in order to sell your goods to them? Is there that people upon earth who do not buy goods of you? You sell goods to Britain, don't you? And do you govern Britain? When a colonist lends you sugar, does he give it you for nothing? Does not he make you give him value for it?—Give value for it then, and you will have it still. When he is his own master,