Even brutes do not devour their young, nor savages make Korea, North Subway Map war upon their families; wherefore, the assertion, if true, turns to her reproach; Korea, North Subway Map but it happens not to be true, or only partly so, and the phrase parent or mother country hath been jesuitically adopted by the king and his parasites, with a low, papistical design of gaining an unfair bias on the credulous weakness of our minds. Europe, not England, is the parent country of Country.
This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither have they fled, not from the tender embraces of a mother, but from the cruelty of a monster; and it is so far true of England, that the same tyranny which drove the first emigrants from home, pursues their descendants still .
I challenge the warmest advocate for reconciliation to show a single advantage that this continent can reap, by being connected to Great Britain . Our corn will fetch its price in any market in Europe, and our imported goods must be paid for, buy them where we will.