156 Benjamin Franklin [1773
you will (to keep to my simile of the cake) act like a
wise gingerbread-baker, who, to facilitate a division,
cuts his dough half through in those places where,
when baked, he would have it broken to pieces.
3. Those remote provinces have perhaps been acquired,
 purchased, or conquered, at the sole expense
of the settlers, or their ancestors; without the aid of
the mother country. If this should happen to increase
 her strength, by their growing numbers ready
to join in her wars; her commerce, by their growing
demand for her manufactures; or her naval power,
by greater employment for her ships and seamen,
they may probably suppose some merit in this, and
that it entitles them to some favor; you are therefore
 to forget it all, or resemt dt all, as if they had
done you injury. 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.
4. However peaceably your colonies have submitted
 to your government, shown their affection to
your interests, and patiently borne their grievances,
you are to suppose them always inclined to revolt,
and treat them accordingly. Quarter troops among
them, who by their insolence may provoke the rising
of mobs, and by their bullets and bayonets suppress
them. By this means, like the husband who uses
his wife ill from suspicion, you may in time convert
your suspicions into realities.
tc. Remote provinces must have governors and