part, might make us the main pillar of their prosperity and existence.  But their deep-rooted hatred to us seems to be the means which Providence permits to lead them to their final catastrophe. ’Nullam enim in terris gentem esse, nullum infestiorem populum, nomini Romano, said the General who erased Capua from the list of powers.  What nourishment and support would not England receive from an hundred millions of industrious descendants, whom some of her people now born will live to see here.  What their energies are, she has lately tried.  And what has she not to fear from an hundred millions of such men, if she continues her maniac course of hatred and hostility to them.  I hope in God she will change.  There is not a nation on the globe with whom I have more earnestly wished a friendly intercourse on equal conditions.  On no other would I hold out the hand of friendship to any.  I know that their creatures represent me as personally an enemy to England.  But fools only can believe this, or those who think me a fool.  I am an enemy to her insults and injuries.  I am an enemy to the flagitious principles of her administration, and to those which govern her conduct towards other nations.  But would she give to morality some place in her political code, and especially would she exercise decency, and at least neutral passions towards us, there is not, I repeat it, a people on earth with whom I would sacrifice so much to be in friendship.  They can do us, as enemies, more harm than any other nation; and in peace and in war, they have more means of disturbing us internally.  Their merchants established among us, the bonds by which our own are chained to their feet, and the banking combinations interwoven with the whole, have shown the extent of their control, even during a war with her.  They are the workers of all the embarrassments our finances have experienced during the war.  Declaring themselves bankrupt, they have been able still to chain the government to a dependence on them; and had the war continued, they would have reduced us to the inability to command a single dollar.  They dared to proclaim that they would not pay their own paper obligations, yet our government could not venture to avail themselves of this opportunity of sweeping their paper from the circulation, and substituting their own notes bottomed on specific taxes for redemption, which every one would have eagerly taken and trusted, rather than the baseless trash of bankrupt companies; our government, I say, have still been overawed from a contest with them, and have even countenanced and strengthened their influence, by proposing new establishments, with authority to swindle yet greater sums from our citizens.  This is the British influence to which I am an enemy, and which we must subject to our government, or it will subject us to that of Britain.

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