Essays of Benjamin Franklin

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URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-127700

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Author:: Franklin, Benjamin http://d-nb.info/gnd/118534912

Title:: Essays of Benjamin Franklin

Place of publication:: New York

Publisher:: G. P. Putnam's Sons

Year of publication:: 1927

Scope:: xi, 273 Seiten

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: XXXI.To Francis Maseres

Collection:: Economics Books

178 | Essays 3 houses, farms, and towns so lately destroyed, and re- lations scalped under the conduct of these royalists, is not wonderful; though I believe the opposition given by many to their re-establishing among us is owing to a firm persuasion that there could be no re- liance on their oaths; and that the effect of receiving those people again would be an introduction of that very anarchy and confusion they falsely reproach us with. Even the example you propose, of the Eng- lish Commonwealth’s restoring the estates of the royalists after their being subdued, seems rather to countenance and encourage our acting differently, as probably if the power, which always accompanies property, had not been restored to the royalists, if their estates had remained confiscated, and their per- sons had been banished, they could not have so much contributed to the restoration of kingly power, and the new government of the republic might have been more durable. The majority of examples in your history are on the other side of the question. All the estates in England and south of Scotland, and most of those possessed by the descendants of the English in Ire- land, are held from ancient confiscations made of the estates of Caledonians and Britons, the original pos- sessors 1n vour island, or the native Irish, in the last century only. It is but a few months since, that your Parliament has. in a few instances, given up confisca- tions incurred by a rebellion suppresed forty vears ago. The war against us was begun by a general act of Parliament declaring all our estates confiscated; and probably one great motive to the loyalty of the is 26¢

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