Two Memorials Not Originally Intended for Publication Now Published With An E
Two Memorials Not Originally Intended for Publication Now Published With An E
Thomas Pownall
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All thefe points confpire not only to make it the interefl of the Ame ricans, but their wifh, to commence fome negotiation with Great Britain before they are more entangled and involved with thefe fufpected allies : if this crifis be neglected, they may however be fo entangled, that their endeavours to emancipate themfelves, although con- fpiring with the efforts of Great Britain, may not be able hereafter to co-operate to any effectual purpofe. Although the Americans have refufed offers of con...ci liation, and propofitions of treaty with Great Britain; yet, when the grounds and reafons of their conduct are compared with the nature of their circumftances, and the circumftances under which thefe offers were made, a man of bufinefs will not only be not furprized that they did thus reject offers, and decline treaty, but, from the nature of the reafon, will take experience how to frame any future negotiation on more practical grounds. The [ 25 1 The terms of conciliation which were framed by Parliament, and fent over to the feveral Governors in America, in order that they mould lay them before the refpedtive aflemblies of each province, became inadmifiible to thefe people; ift, becaufe they were addrefled to bodies of men, who had delegated the powers of treating of thefe matters ; while they pafled by that body of men with whom that power did refide : sdly, becaufe the receiving of them by the refpetftive Affemblies would have been virtually to diflblve that union which exifted collec tively in the Congrefs only: and 3dly, becaufe, under the queftionable form un der which they came to the Aflemblies, had the people acceded to them, they mufl previoufly be fuppofed to have given up that claim of right, on the claim of which they had feparated from Great Britain.
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