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Read Ebook: An Humble Address and Earnest Appeal to Those Respectable Personages in Great-Britain and Ireland Who by Their Great and Permanent Interest in Landed Property Their Liberal Education Elevated Rank and Enlarged Views Are the Ablest to Judge and the Fittest by Tucker Josiah
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AN HUMBLE ADDRESS AND EARNEST APPEAL TO THOSE RESPECTABLE PERSONAGES IN GREAT-BRITAIN AND IRELAND, WHO, BY THEIR GREAT AND PERMANENT INTEREST IN LANDED PROPERTY, THEIR LIBERAL EDUCATION, ELEVATED RANK, AND ENLARGED VIEWS, ARE THE ABLEST TO JUDGE, AND THE FITTEST TO DECIDE, WHETHER A CONNECTION WITH, OR A SEPARATION FROM THE CONTINENTAL COLONIES OF AMERICA, BE MOST FOR THE NATIONAL ADVANTAGE, AND THE LASTING BENEFIT OF THESE KINGDOMS.
BY JOSIAH TUCKER, D. D. DEAN OF GLOCESTER.
AN HUMBLE ADDRESS, &c.
MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,
Three Schemes have been proposed;--the Parliamentary,--Mr. BURKE's,--and my own.
In regard to the first, I wish for the present to be silent about it;--partly out of Respect to that august Body, which has given a Sanction to it;--partly because it is now upon Trial, whether it can be executed or not;--and partly likewise because this must fall of Course, if either Mr. BURKE's, or mine, should be judged to have the Preference. For these Reasons, I say, I wish to keep a respectful Silence on this Head.
But here the Smartness of Debate will be apt to say, "Who are those Persons against whom your Insinuations are levelled? Name them, if you are able: And as you ought to be furnished with the most positive Proofs, before you are entitled to throw out such Invectives, give them to the Public, in order that we may hold these Traitors to their Country in just Abhorrence."
To all which strong Words I would beg Leave to suggest the following Answers.
But without any Retrospect to Things past, let us look towards what is to come.
I say, one or other of these four Suppositions must necessarily be made, before Mr. BURKE's Plan can terminate in real Peace, and restore that Harmony, of which he makes such continual Boastings. Let him therefore, at his own Leisure, take his Choice of either of the four, or even adopt them all, if he pleases, and make the most of them.
Therefore, so far at least my System must have the Preference to Mr. BURKE's.
And here I would humbly beg Leave to observe, that if my Scheme had nothing else to recommend it to your Notice, it most infallibly cuts off all the present Causes of Dispute and Contention between the two Countries; so that they never can revive again. Whereas Mr. BURKE's is, at best, but a temporary Cessation from Hostilities; a mere Truce, 'till both Parties can be recruited, and better provided to begin the War again. Nay, his would be found in the Event,--not only to be no Manner of Cure or Palliation of the present Evils, but even greatly to foment them, and also to engender many new ones.
Now, my Lords and Gentlemen, suffer me I beseech you, to appeal to your own good Sense and Understandings on this Head.--Ask yourselves this plain Question, Is such a Plan of Reconciliation as Mr. BURKE proposes, a likely Method of terminating the present Disputes between the Mother-Country and her Colonies? Nay ask farther;--Hath it so much as a Tendency to cool and moderate them? Or rather doth it not seem much better contrived to enflame, than to extinguish; to kindle new Fires, than to quench old ones?
Carolina 305,808 1 6 | 334,709 12 8 | New-England's four Provinces 459,765 0 11 | 451,299 14 7 | New-York 515,416 12 1 | 382,349 11 1 | Pensilvania 435,191 14 0 | 363,368 17 5 | Virginia and Maryland 515,192 10 6 | 383,224 13 0 |
| 296,732 1 4 | 244,093 6 0 | 289,868 12 3 | | 409,642 7 6 | 406,081 9 2 | 419,797 9 4 | | 330,829 15 8 | 417,957 15 5 | 482,930 14 4 | | 327,314 5 3 | 371,830 8 10 | 432,107 17 4 | | 372,548 16 1 | 437,628 2 6 | 475,954 6 2 |
| 306,600 5 6 | 146,273 17 0 | 409,169 9 4 | | 207,993 14 3 | 394,451 7 5 | 1,420,119 1 1 | | 74,918 7 10 | 475,991 12 0 | 653,621 7 6 | | 199,909 17 11 | 134,881 15 5 | 728,744 19 10 | | 488,362 15 1 | 717,782 17 3 | 920,326 3 8 |
Now all Imports may be divided into two Classes, viz. Raw Materials for the Employment of our own People, and taxable Objects for the Purposes of raising a Revenue.
In regard to Tobacco; I admit it to be a very proper Object of Taxation. But here again, that which is re-exported pays but little Duty, if any at all. And with respect to that which is used and consumed at Home, when the many Frauds attending it, together with the Expence of collecting are taken into the Account, the clear Balance will not be in any Degree, so great as is vulgarly imagined.
Gross Produce of the Year 1775, 5,479,695 7 10 Gross Produce of the Year 1774, 5,224,899 7 10-1/4
Increased Produce of the Year 1775, 254,795 19 11-3/4
POSTSCRIPT.
What is now to follow, is added at the Request of a foreign Nobleman, whose good Sense and Penetration led him to discern, that a Crisis was certainly approaching, in which the Fate of this Country will be determined; and therefore wished to know, what was the Strength of each Party, and the Amount of the Forces on either Side.
A General Muster of the Forces BOTH FOR AND AGAINST The Present Government.
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