quarter of the world; yet such have been the irreligious politics of
the present leaders of the Quakers, that, for the sake of they scarce
know what, they would cut off every hope of such a blessing by tying
this continent to Britain, like Hector to the chariot wheel of
Achilles, to be dragged through all the miseries of endless European
wars.

The connection, viewed from this ground, is distressing to every man
who has the feelings of humanity. By having Britain for our master,
we became enemies to the greatest part of Europe, and they to us: and
the consequence was war inevitable. By being our own masters,
independent of any foreign one, we have Europe for our friends, and
the prospect of an endless peace among ourselves. Those who were
advocates for the British government over these colonies, were
obliged to limit both their arguments and their ideas to the period
of an European peace only; the moment Britain became plunged in war,
every supposed convenience to us vanished, and all we could hope for
was not to be ruined. Could this be a desirable condition for a young
country to be in?

Had the French pursued their fortune immediately after the defeat of
Braddock last war, this city and province had then experienced the
woful calamities of being a British subject. A scene of the same kind
might happen again; for America, considered as a subject to the crown
of Britain, would ever have been the seat of war, and the bone of
contention between the two powers.

On the whole, if the future expulsion of arms from one quarter of the
world would be a desirable object to a peaceable man; if the freedom
of trade to every part of it can engage the attention of a man of