It looks likely to me;
for, if we can remove the turbulent Gallios, our people, according to
the exactest computations, will, in another century, become more
numerous than England itself. Should this be the case, since we have, I
may say, all the naval stores of the nation in our hands, it will be
easy to obtain a mastery of the seas; and then the united forces of all
Europe will not be able to subdue us. The only way to keep us from
setting up for ourselves is to disunite us.
"Be not surprised that I am turned polititian. The whole town is
immersed in politics. The interests of nations, and all the dira of war,
make the subject of every conversation. I sit and hear, and after having
been led through a maze of sage obversations, I sometimes retire, and,
laying things together, form some reflections pleasing to myself. The
produce of one of these reveries you have read above."]
[Footnote 2: This question, of the power of parliament over the colonies, was
discussed with singular ability by Governor Hutchinson on the one side,
and the house of representatives of Massachusetts on the other, in 1773.
The argument of the house is in the form of an answer to the governor's
message, and was reported by Mr. Samuel Adams, Mr.
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