Conciliation With the American Colonies
Conciliation With the American Colonies
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Such has been the language even of a gentleman of real moder- ation, and of a natural temper well adjusted to fair and equal government. I am, however. Sir, not a little surprised at this kind of discourse, whenever I hear it ; and I am the more sur- prised, on account of the arguments which I constandy find in company with it, and which are often urged from the same mouths, and on the same day.
For instance, when we allege that it is against reason to tax a people under so many restraints in t...rade as the Americans, the noble lord in the blue riband shall tell you that the restraints on trade are futile and useless, of no advantage to us, and of no burthen to those on whom they are imposed ; that the trade to America is not secured by the acts of navigation, but by the natural and irresistible advantage of a commercial preference.
Such is the merit of the trade laws in this posture of the de- bate. But when strong internal circumstances are urged against the taxes, when the scheme is dissected, when experience and the nature of things are brought to prove (and do prove) the Digitized by Google 52 EDMUND BURKE ON CONCILIATION utter impossibility of obtaining an effective revenue from the colonies, — when these things are pressed, or rather press them- selves, so as to drive the advocates of colony taxes to a clear admission of the futihty of the scheme, — then, Sir, the sleeping trade laws revive from their trance ; and this useless taxation is to be kept sacred, not for its own sake, but as a counter-guard and security of the laws of trade.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Such has been the language even of a gentleman of real moder- ation, and of a natural temper well adjusted to fair and equal government. I am, however. Sir, not a little surprised at this kind of discourse, whenever I hear it ; and I am the more sur- prised, on account of the arguments which I constandy find in company with it, and which are often urged from the same mouths, and on the same day.
For instance, when we allege that it is against reason to tax a people under so many restraints in t...rade as the Americans, the noble lord in the blue riband shall tell you that the restraints on trade are futile and useless, of no advantage to us, and of no burthen to those on whom they are imposed ; that the trade to America is not secured by the acts of navigation, but by the natural and irresistible advantage of a commercial preference.
Such is the merit of the trade laws in this posture of the de- bate. But when strong internal circumstances are urged against the taxes, when the scheme is dissected, when experience and the nature of things are brought to prove (and do prove) the Digitized by Google 52 EDMUND BURKE ON CONCILIATION utter impossibility of obtaining an effective revenue from the colonies, — when these things are pressed, or rather press them- selves, so as to drive the advocates of colony taxes to a clear admission of the futihty of the scheme, — then, Sir, the sleeping trade laws revive from their trance ; and this useless taxation is to be kept sacred, not for its own sake, but as a counter-guard and security of the laws of trade.
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