and if we remove we become beggars.  The property of farmers is not like that of merchants; and absolute poverty is worse than death.  If we take up arms to defend ourselves, we are denominated rebels; should we not be rebels against nature, could we be shamefully passive?  Shall we then, like martyrs, glory in an allegiance, now become useless, and voluntarily expose ourselves to a species of desolation which, though it ruin us entirely, yet enriches not our ancient masters.  By this inflexible and sullen attachment, we shall be despised by our countrymen, and destroyed by our ancient friends; whatever we may say, whatever merit we may claim, will not shelter us from those indiscriminate blows, given by hired banditti, animated by all those passions which urge men to shed the blood of others; how bitter the thought!  On the contrary, blows received by the hands of those from whom we expected protection, extinguish ancient respect, and urge us to self-defence--perhaps to revenge; this is the path which nature herself points out, as well to the civilised as to the uncivilised.  The Creator of hearts has himself stamped on them those propensities at their first formation; and must we then daily receive this treatment from a power once so loved?  The Fox flies or deceives the hounds that pursue him; the bear, when overtaken, boldly resists and attacks them; the hen, the very timid hen, fights for the preservation of her chickens, nor does she decline to attack, and to meet on the wing even the swift kite.  Shall man, then, provided both with instinct and reason, unmoved, unconcerned, and passive, see his subsistence consumed, and his progeny either ravished from him or murdered?  Shall fictitious reason extinguish the unerring impulse of instinct?  No; my former respect, my former attachment vanishes with my safety; that respect and attachment was purchased by protection, and it has ceased.  Could not the great nation we belong to have accomplished her designs by means of her numerous armies, by means of those fleets which cover the ocean?  Must those who are masters of two thirds of the trade of the world; who have in their hands the power which almighty gold can give; who possess a species of wealth that increases with their desires; must they establish their conquest with our insignificant innocent blood!

Must I then bid farewell to Britain, to that renowned country?  Must I renounce a name so ancient and so venerable?  Alas, she herself, that once indulgent parent, forces me to take up arms against her.  She herself, first inspired the most unhappy citizens of our remote districts, with the thoughts of shedding the blood of those whom they used to call by the name of friends and brethren.  That great nation which now convulses the world; which hardly knows the extent of her Indian kingdoms; which looks toward the universal monarchy of trade, of industry, of riches, of power:  why must she strew our poor frontiers with the carcasses of her friends, with the wrecks of our insignificant