What a spectacle would it be to Europe, to see us at this time of day balancing the account of tyranny with those very countries, and by our persecutions driving back trade and manufacture, as a sort of vagabonds, to their original settlement!
Burke critiques the potential consequences of tyranny on trade and society in Europe.
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