mies, whose intrigues, for several years past,
have been wholly exercised in sapping the
foundations of civil and religious liberty.
ANOTHER reason, that engaged us to prefer
the commercial mode of opposition, arose
from an assurance, that this mode will prove
efficacious, if it be persisted in with fidelity
and virtue; and that your conduct will be
influenced by these laudable principles can-
not be questioned. Your own salvation, and
that of your posterity, now depends upon
yourselves. You have already shewn that you
entertain a proper sense of the blessings you
are striving to retain. Against the temporary
inconveniencies you may suffer from a stop-
page of trade, you will weigh in the oppo-
site balance, the endless miseries you and your
descendants must endure from an established
arbitrary power. You will not forget the ho-
nour of your country, that must from your
behaviour take its title in the estimation of
the world, to glory, or to shame; and you
will, with the deepest attention, reflect, that
if the peaceable mode of opposition recom-
mended by us, be broken and rendered inef-
fectual, as your cruel and haughty minsterial
enemies, from a contemptuous opinion of your
firmness, insolently predict will be the case,
you must inevitably be reduced to chuse,
ei-
ther a more dangerous contest, or a final, ru-
inous, and infamous submission.
MOTIVES thus cogent, arising from the
emergency of your unhappy condition, must