146 Benjamin Franklin [1770 
principally of superfluities; objects of luxury and 
fashion, which we can well do without; and the reso- 
lution we have formed of importing no more till our 
grievances are redressed, has enabled many of our 
infant manufactures to take root; and it will not be 
easy to make our people abandon them in future, 
even should a connexion more cordial than ever suc- 
ceed the present troubles. I have, indeed, no doubt 
that the Parliament of England will finally abandon 
its present pretensions, and leave us to the peaceable 
enjoyment of our rights and privileges. 
B. FRANKLIN.