Edmund Burke: “There was policy in this; and it served to prevent the numberless disorders which arose from the late civil commotions.”

This is the result of all the delusions held out to engage a miserable people in rebellion, murder, and sacrilege, and to make them prompt and zealous instruments in the ruin of their country!

It was not made to entice the smell of a mole, nuzzling and burying himself in his mother earth, as yours is.

Let us imitate their caution, if we wish to deserve their fortune or to retain their bequests.

Every honest mind, every true lover of liberty and humanity, must rejoice to find that injustice is not always good policy, nor rapine the high-road to riches.