2.4 OF t ABILItY OF AMERICA, ItIONS
I confessed a separation betries, ake place one time or otance, in o describe, ness of tinent for independence.
As all men alloime, let us, in order to remove mistakes, take a general survey of to find out time. But go far, t once, for, tIME h FOUND US.
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It is not in numbers, but in unity, t our great strengt our present numbers are sufficient to repel the world.
tinent time, t body of armed and disciplined men of any po t pitcrengto support itself, and ted, can accomplister, and eit be fatal in its effects. Our land force is already sufficient, and as to naval affairs, be insensible, t Britain o be built, remained in branc trutimber of try is every day diminis, , to procure.
ere tinent croants, circumstances olerable. t too lose. Our present numbers are so ioned to our s, t no man need be idle.
tion of trade affords an army, and ties of an army create a nerade.
Debts ract on t o of our virtue. Can leave posterity tled form of government, an independent constitution of its o any price o expend millions for tting a fes repealed, and routing t ministry only, is unerity most cruelty; because it is leaving t o do, and a debt upon tage. Suc is unrue ceristic of a narroician.
t ract dot deserve our regard, if t accomplision ougo be a debt.
A national debt is a national bond; and erest, is in no case a grievance. Britain is oppressed of uperling, for . And as a compensation for , s a debt, and a navy; yet for tiet of tional debt, could time, more terling.
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[See Entics naval ory, intro. page 56.] te, and furniss, yards, sails and rigging, togetion of eigsers seastores, as calculated by Mr. Burct, Secretary to the navy.
[pounds Sterling] For a s is easy to sum up t ratis its greatest glory consisted of t of one.Cost of all 6 - 100 -35,553- 213,31812 -90 -29,886- 358,63212 -80 -23,638- 283,65643 -70 -17,785- 764,75535 -60 -14,197- 496,89540 -50 -10,606- 424,24045 -40 - 7,558- 340,11058 -20 - 3,710- 215,180 85 Sloops, bombs, and fires 3,266,786 Remains for guns,_________ 233,214_________3,500,000 No country on tuated, or so internally capable of raising a fleet as America. tar, timber, iron, and cordage are ural produce. e need go abroad for notcs by to tuguese, are obliged to import most of terials they use.
e ougo vie as an article of commerce, it being tural manufactory of try. It is t money .
A navy . And is t nice point in national policy, in ion are united. Let us build; if t, means replace our paper currency of manning a fleet, people in general run into great errors; it is not necessary t one fourt should he sailors.
terrible privateer, Captain Deatood ttest engagement of any s ty sailors on board, t of men wo hundred.
A feruct a sufficient number of active landmen in to begin on maritime matters timber is standing, our fiss out of employ. Men of y and eig forty years ago in Neest pride, and in he whole world.
t empires of t are mostly inland, and consequently excluded from ty of rivalling her.
Africa is in a state of barbarism; and no po of coast, or sucernal supply of materials.
ure o America only empire of Russia is almost s out from ts, ar, iron, and cordage are only articles of commerce.
In point of safety, ougo be a fleet? e are not ttle people no t time ed our property in treets, or fields rat securely locks or bolts to our doors or ered, and our met to improve y. A common pirate, t y of Pant contribution, for her places.
Nay, any daring felloeen or sixteen guns miginent, and carried off half a million of money.
tances ion, and point out ty of naval protection.
Some, per after ain, sect us. Can o mean, t s purpose? Common sense ell us, t to subdue us, is of all ot improper to defend us.
Conquest may be effected under tence of friendser a long and brave resistance, be at last ced into slavery. And if to be admitted into our o protect us? A navy ttle use, and on sudden emergencies, none at all.
er protect ourselves, for ourselves? t of s not a tent of t any one time fit for service, numbers of t in being; yet tinued in t, f only a plank be left of t a fift of suc for service, can be spared on any one station at one time.
t and est Indies, Mediterranean, Africa, and ots over ends her claim, make large demands upon her navy.
From a mixture of prejudice and inattention, ed a false notion respecting talked as if o encounter at once, and for t reason, supposed, t being instantly practicable, of disguised tories to discourage our beginning trutiet of tain, sc, o one tage of to sail over, before ttack us, and tance to return in order to refit and recruit. And altain, by , rade to Europe, o t Indies, , is entirely at its mercy.
Some met be fallen on to keep up a naval force in time of peace, if necessary to support a constant navy.
If premiums o be given to mercs, to build and employ in ted y, ty, forty or fifty guns, (to be in proportion to to ts) fifty or sixty of tant duty, navy, and t burdening ourselves , in time of peace to lie rotting in to unite trengto eacernal enemy.
In almost every article of defense
cordage. Our iron is superior to t of otries. Our small arms equal to any in the world.
Cannon at pleasure. Saltpetre and gunpo t ? t e? From Britain not ruin. If sted to t of America again, tinent be h living in.
Jealousies ions antly o quell ture o reduce rymen to a foreign obedience? ticut, respecting some unlocated lands, sis, and fully proves, t not Continental auty can regulate Continental matters.
Anot time is preferable to all ot t unoccupied, only to t debt, but to tant support of government. No nation under age at this.
t state of t is called, so far from being against, is an argument in favour of independance.
e are sufficiently numerous, and were we more so, we miged.
It is a matter ion, t try is peopled, tary numbers, ts far exceeded t. for trade being tion, men become too muco attend to anyt, botriotism and military defence. And ory sufficiently informs us, t t acs were always accomplision.
it its spirit. ty of London, notanding its numbers, submits to continued insults ience of a coo lose, to venture. to fear, and submit to courtly porembling duplicity of a Spaniel.
Youtime of good s, as ions as in individuals.
It mig, if not impossible, to form tinent into one government ury variety of interests, occasioned by an increase of trade and population, e confusion.
Colony colony. Eac scorn eacance: and inctions, t, t t been formed before.
tIME is tRUE tIME for establis.
timacy ed in infancy, and tune, are, of all ot lasting and unalterable.
Our present union is marked ers: our concord ood our troubles, and fixes a memorable are for posterity to glory in.
t time, like peculiar time, ion but once, viz. time of forming itself into a government.
Most nations slip tunity, and by t means o receive laead of making la, t; , s, and men delegated to execute ter from tions, let us learn unity --tO BEGIN GOVERNMENt At t END.
t of til , t t of government, in America, be legally and autatively occupied, unate ruffian, us in ty? As to religion, I to be ty of all government, to protect all conscientious professors t o do t a man t narro selfiso part delivered of y. For myself, I fully and conscientiously believe, t it is ty, t ty of religious opinions among us: It affords a larger field for our Cian kindness. ere ions matter for probation; and on tions among us, to be like c is called, tian names.
In page forty, I t a fes on ty of a Continental Cer, (for I only presume to offer s, not plans) and in take ty of rementioning t, by observing, t a cer is to be understood as a bond of solemn obligation, o, to support t of every separate part, wy.
A firm bargain and a right reckoning make long friends.
In a former page I likeioned ty of a large and equal representation; and tical matter ion. A small number of electors, or a small number of representatives, are equally dangerous.
But if tatives be not only small, but unequal, tance of tion tors petition y-eig, all ty members, being eiged against it, and er members done ties only, and t is alo.
table stretc sitting, to gain an undue auty over tes of t province, ougo large, rust po of t of instructions for tes toget of sense and business doors, o t ill- ered on some necessary public measures, t ate a moment to trust.
Immediate necessity makes many t, o oppressions. Expedience and rig things.
ies of America required a consultation, t t time so proper, as to appoint persons from t purpose; and tinent from ruin.
But as it is more t o t body, deserves consideration. And I put it as a question to tudy of mankind, ion and election is not too great a poo possess? erity, virtue is not ary.
It is from our enemies t en gain excellent maxims, and are frequently surprised into reason by takes, Mr. Cornreasury) treated tition of tempt, because t ed but of ty-six members, for tary y.
[tand of consequence a large and equal representation is to a state, sical disquisitions.] tO CONCLUDE, range it may appear to some, or o tters not, but many strong and striking reasons may be given, to s nottle our affairs so expeditiously as an open and determined declaration for independance. Some of is tom of nations, engaged in to step in as mediators, and bring about t Britain, no poate we may quarrel on for ever.
SECONDLY. -- It is unreasonable to suppose, t France or Spain ance, if o make use of t assistance for trengtion betain and America; because, the consequences.
ts of Britain, , in tions. be considered as rebels. t is someo to be in arms under ts; , can solve t to unite resistance and subjection, requires an idea mucoo refined for common understanding.
FOURto to be publisco foreign courts, setting fortually used for redress; declaring, at time, t not being able, any longer, to live ion of tis, y of breaking off all connections time, assuring all sucs of our peaceable disposition toering into trade s to tinent, ted itions to Britain.
Under our present denomination of Britiss, om of all courts is against us, and il, by an independance, ake rank ions.
t first appear strange and difficult; but, like all oteps ime become familiar and agreeable; and, until an independance is declared, tinent self like a man ting off some unpleasant business from day to day, yet kno must be done, es to set about it, inually ed s of its necessity.