That this will be the case in America soon, if our people remain confined within the mountains, and almost as soon should it be unsafe for them to live beyond, though the country be ceded to us, no man acquainted with political and commercial history can doubt.
Franklin warns that if Americans remain confined to certain areas, it will hinder their growth and development.
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I apprehend, that excluding the people of the colonies from all share in the choice of the grand council will give extreme dissatisfaction; as well as the taxing them by act of parliament, where they have no representation.
An ancient sage valued himself upon this, that though he could not fiddle, he knew how to make a great city of a little one.
But above all this, the state and circumstances of our settlements render such a measure not only proper and eligible, but absolutely necessary.
No part of these monies was ever paid by the proprietaries, or ever raised on their estates; and therefore they can have no pretence of right to a voice in the disposition of them.
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