that when, by indulgence and favour, emigrants are become rich, they ſhall not contribute to their own defence, but at their own pleaſure; and that they ſhall not be included, like millions of their fellow-ſubjects, in the general ſyſtem of repreſentation; involves ſuch an accumulation of abſurdity, as nothing but the ſhew of patriotiſm could palliate.
He that accepts protection, ſtipulates obedience. We have always protected the Americans; we may therefore ſubject them to government.
The leſs is included in the greater. That power which can take away life, may ſeize upon property. The parliament may enact for America a law of capital puniſhment; it may therefore eſtabliſh a mode and proportion of taxation.
But there are ſome who lament the ſtate of the poor Boſtonians, becauſe they
