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pany them still. The people, I believe, are as truly loyal as any subjects the king has, but a People jealous of their liberties, and who will vindicate them, should they be violated. When ten years later the great struggle long foreboded came on, it was felt, on both sides of the Atlantic, to be an attempt to reduce a free People beyond the sea to unconditional dependence on a parliament in which they were not represented. What foundation have we, was the language of Chatham on the 27th Jan. 1775, for our claims over America? What is our right to persist in such cruel and vindictive measures against that loyal, respectable People? How have this respectable people behaved under all their grievances? Repeal, therefore, I say. But bare repeal will not satisfy this enlightened and spirited People. Lord Camden, in the same debate, exclaimed, You have no right to tax America; the natural rights of man, and the immutable laws of Nature, are with that People. Burke, two months later,