Benjamin Franklin: “Let us (and there is no doubt but we shall) be attentive to these, and then the power of rivals, with all their…”

That it would be treating them as a conquered people, and not as true British subjects.

But above all this, the state and circumstances of our settlements render such a measure not only proper and eligible, but absolutely necessary.

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.

Strong forts on the lakes, the Ohio, &c. may, at the same time they secure our present frontiers, serve to defend new colonies settled under their protection; and such colonies would also mutually defend and support such forts, and better…