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though many can forgive injuries, none ever for- 
gave contempt. 
9. In laying these taxes, never regard the heavy 
burdens those remote people already undergo, in de- 
fending their own frontiers, supporting their own 
provincial government, making new roads, building 
bridges, churches, and other public edifices; which 
in old countries have been done to your hands by 
your ancestors, but which occasion constant calls and 
demands on the purses of a new people. Forget the 
restraint you lay on their trade for your own benefit, 
and the advantage a monoply of this trade gives 
your exacting merchants. Think nothing of the 
wealth those merchants and your manufacturers ac- 
quire by the colony commerce; their increased ability 
thereby to pay taxes at home; their accumulating, in 
the price of their commodities, most of those taxes, 
and so levying them from their consuming customers; 
all this, and the employment and support of thou- 
sands of your poor by the colonists, you are entirely 
to forget. But remember to make your arbitrary tax 
more grievous to your provinces, by public declara- 
tions importing that your power of taxing them has 
no limits; so that, when you take from them with- 
out their consent a shilling in the pound, you have 
a clear right to the other nineteen. This will 
probably weaken every idea of security in their 
property, and convince them that under such a 
government they have nothing they can call their 
own; which can scarce fail of producing the happiest 
consequences! 
10. Possibly, indeed, some of them might still com- 
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