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 ac- 
quired, 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 in- 
crease 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 there- 
fore 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 re- 
volution is thoroughly established, are of no more 
use; they are even odious and abominable. 
4. However peaceably your colonies have sub- 
mitted 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