pose with dignity or ef- | fect. 1971 | The desperate | state of our | army | a | broad is in part known. No man

more | highly es- | teems and | honors the | English | than I do: || I know their | and their | valor;

troops

virtues

can achieve

I
I know they

any thing | but im- possi- | bilities; and I know | that the | conquest of | English America | is | an im- | possi- | bility. [1

You cannot, my Lords,

you can- | not conquer A- merica. What is your | | | | | present situation | there?

We do not know the worst: but we know that in three | campaigns we have done | nothing and suffered | much. 14 14 You may | swell every ex- pense, ac- cumulate | every as- | sistance, and ex- | tend your | traffic to the | shambles of every | German | despot; |11|your at- | tempts will be for- | ever | vain and | impotent; doubly | so this mercenary | aid for it irritates,

|

in- | deed, from

on which you re- | ly;

to an in- | curable re- |

sentment, the | minds of your | adversaries, to | over- run them | with the | mercenary | sons of | rapine and plunder, de- | voting them and their pos- sessions to the ra- | pacity of | hireling | cru| elty. 1991

But my Lords, | who is the | man, |that in ad-| dition to the dis- | graces and | mischiefs of the war, | has dared to authorize | and associate to our | arms, the tomahawk and scalping | knife of the | savage? to call into civilized al- |liance, |

the wild and in- | human | in- | habitants of the woods? to | delegate

Indian,

to the | merciless |

the de- | fence of dis- | puted | rights,

and to wage the | horrors of his | barbarous | war |

a- gainst our | brethren? |

these enormities | cry a- | loud

this | bar

not only

and | punishment. || But my | Lords
barous measure has been de- | fended,
on the principles of policy

and ne- cessity, 7 |

but also on those of mo- | rality; || "for it is perfectly al- | lowable," | says | Lord | Suffolk, "to use all the means which | God and | Nature | have put into our | hands." I am as- | tonished, I am | shocked, to hear such | principles con- fessed; to | hear them a- | vowed in this house, or in this | country. 19971 My Lords I did not in- | tend to en- | croach so much on your attention, || but I | cannot re- press my | indig- | nation I feel my- | self im- | pelled to | speak. |11|11|1My Lords we are | called upon as members of this house, as men, as | christians, to pro- | test against such | horrible bar- | barity! |11|9

"That God and | nature have put into our | hands!" || What i- | deas of | God and | nature, | that noble Lord may | enter- | tain, |I| know not; | but I know that | such de- | testable | principles are equally ab- | horrent | to re- | ligion | and humanity. |11|11| What to at- | tribute the sacred | sanction of God and | naI 1 ture to the massacres of the | Indian | scalping knife! to the | savage, | torturing | and | mur

|

Such |

99

and this | de- | mand

1

and this

dering his un- | happy | victins! 17 notions shock | every | sentiment of | honor. These abominable | principles, more abominable a- | vowal of them, the most decisive | indig- | nation. I call upon that | right | reverend, most | learned | Bench, |to| vindicate ligion of their | God to sup- port the | justice of their country. |17|99|71 | call upon the | Bishops to inter- | pose the un- | sullied | sanctity of | their lawn, upon the | Judges pose the purity of their | ermine,

this pollution.

|

to

the re

to | inter- | save us from |

national

I call upon the | honor of your lordships, to | reverence the | dignity of your ancestors | and to main- | tain your | own. 17 17771 call upon the | spirit and hu- | manity of my country, to vindicate the character. the British consti- | tution. |1|17| ľ tapestry that a- | dorns | these | walls, mortal | ancestor of this | noble | lord | frowns with | indig-nation at the dis- | grace of his | country. || 1997 In | vain did | he de- | fend the | liberty,|

1 in- | voke the

Genius of

From the |

the im

and establish the re- ligion of | Britain, a- | | gainst the tyranny of | Rome, | if these | worse than | Popish cruelties, and in- quisi- | torial | practices, | are en- | dured a- | mong us. 199 To | send forth the merciless | Indian, || thirst1 ing for blood!a-gainst whom? 1 protestant | brethren! ||to | lay

country, to desolate their dwellings,

your |

waste their

and ex

tirpate their race and | name, by the | aid and | in

strumentality of these un- | governable | savages! 7777 Spain Spain can | no | longer | boast | preeminence in bar- | barity. ||11| She | armed herself with | blood hounds to ex- | tirpate the | wretched | natives of | Mexico;

we, more ruthless, loose those | brutal | warriors | a- |gainst our countrymen in A- | merica,

to us by every tie

en- | deared

that can | sanctify hu

manity. I solemnly | call upon your

lordships, and upon | every | order of men in the

State to stamp upon | this

|

infamous pro- | cedure the in- | delible | stigma of the public abhorrence. 11111 More par- ticularly, [~ I | call upon the | venerable | prelates of our religion, to do a- | way this i- | niquity : [▼ them per- form a lus- | tration |to| purify the | counfrom this | deep and | deadly | sin. |

try

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My Lords, I am I am old | and | weak, and at present un- | able to say | more; | but my feelings and indig- | nation were too strong to have al- | lowed me to say | less. 77/7/71 | could not have | slept this night in my bed, nor | even re- | posed my head upon my | pillow, with- | out giving vent to my stedfast ab- | horrence of such e- | normous and pre- | posterous | principles. 771

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ON THE BEING OF A GOD.

Young.

Re-tire; the world shutout; thy thoughts | call | home:

I-magi- nation's | airy | wing

Lock up thy senses;

re- press; 1

let no | passion | stir ;|

Wake all to reason: let her | | |

a- | lone;

Then

reign

in thy | soul's | deep | silence, |

and the depth

Of nature's | silence, || midnight, |77| thus

in- quire,

As I have done; and shall in- | quire no more.

Nought still had been: | e- | ternal | there. | | | must | be. | ។ | ។។។។

។ But what eternal? || Why not | human | race?

And | Adam's | ancestors with- | out an | end?

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That's hard to be con- | ceived; since | every | link 1

Of that long chained suc- cession is | so

frail;