If they happen to be zealous whigs, friends of liberty, nurtured in revolution principles; remember all that to their prejudice, and contrive to punish it: for such principles, after a revolution is thoroughly established, are of no more use; they are even odious and abominable.
Franklin warns against punishing those who supported revolutionary principles after a revolution is established.
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That it would be treating them as a conquered people, and not as true British subjects.
Some manufactures we could make, but are forbidden, and must take them of British merchants: the whole price is a tax paid to Britain.
And as there are already in the old colonies many thousands of families that are ready to swarm, wanting more land; the richness and natural advantage of the Ohio country would draw most of them thither, were there but a tolerable prospect…
Believing therefore, that it is my duty, I shall honestly speak my mind in the following paper.
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