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 They mean not to exchange olid money for uch airy honour. They ay, and ay willingly, that they cannot conveniently be repreented; becaue their inference is, that they cannot be taxed. They are too remote to hare the general government, and therefore claim the privilege of governing themelves.

the principles contained in the reolutions of the Congres, however wild, indefinite, and obcure, uch has been the influence upon American undertanding, that from New-England to South-Carolina there is formed a general combination of all the Provinces againt their Mother-country. The madnes of independence has pread from Colony to Colony, till order is lot and government depied, and all is filled with mirule, uproar, violence, and confuion. To be quiet is diaffection, to be loyal is treaon.