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TAXATION NO TYRANNY.
land which you poſſeſs by uſurpation, and to reſtore all that you have taken from us.
“Independence is the gift of Nature. No man is born the maſter of another. Every Corniſhman is a freeman, for we have never reſigned the rights of humanity; and he only can be thought free, who is not governed but by his own conſent.
“You may urge that the preſent ſyſtem of government has deſcended through many ages, and that we have a larger part in the repreſentation of the kingdom, than any other county.
“All this is true, but it is neither cogent nor perſuaſive. We look to the original of things. Our union with the Engliſh counties was either compelled by force, or ſettled by compact.
“That
