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Essays of Benjamin Franklin

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Identifikator:
1752429486
URN:
urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-127700
Document type:
Monograph
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
Digitisation:
2021
Collection:
Economics Books
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Structure type:
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Title:
XXXI.To Francis Maseres
Collection:
Economics Books

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  • Essays of Benjamin Franklin
  • Title page
  • Contents
  • I. Plan for settling two western colonies in North America, with reason for the plan
  • II. The interest of Great Britain considered, with regard to her colonies and the acquisitions of Canada and Guadaloupe
  • III. Letter concerning the gratitude of America
  • IV. The examination of Dr. Benjamin Franklin in the british house of commons
  • V. Protective duties on imports and how they work
  • VI. Trade with England
  • VII. Causes of the american discontents before 1768
  • VIII. Positions to be examined, concerning national wealth
  • IX. To M. Dubourg
  • X. Plan for benefiting distant unprovided countries
  • XI. To Joseph Galloway
  • XII. Rules for reducing a Great Empire to a small one
  • XIII. An edict by the King of Prussia
  • XIV. Hints for conversation upon the subject of terms that might probably produce a durable ubion between Britain and the colonies
  • XV. To Mr. Strahan
  • XVI. To Joseph Priestley
  • XVII. The british nation, as it appeared to the colonists in 1775
  • XVIII. Vindication and offer from congress to parliament
  • XIX. Sketch of proposition for a peace
  • XX. Comparison of Great Britain and the United States in regard to the basis of credit in the two countries
  • XXI. To General Washington
  • XXII.From the count de Schaumbergh to the Baron Hohendorf, commanding the hessian troops in America
  • XXIII. To Gen. Washington
  • XXIV. A dialogue between Britain, France, Spain, Holland, Saxony, and America
  • XXV. To George Washington
  • XXVI. To Count de Vergennes
  • XXVII. To Benjamin Vaughan
  • XXVIII. To Mrs. Sarah Bache
  • XXIX. The international State of America; Being a true description of the interest and policy of that vast continent
  • XXX. To Bejamin Vaughan
  • XXXI.To Francis Maseres
  • XXXII. Proposales for consideration in the convention for forming the constitution of the United States
  • XXXIII. An adress to the public from the Pennsylvania Society for promoting the abolition of slavery, and the relief of free negroes unlawfully held in bondage

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: Benjamin Franklin [1785 
royalists was the hope of sharing in these confisca- 
tions. They have played a deep game, staking their 
estates against ours; and they have been unsuccess- 
ful. But it is a surer game, since they had promises 
to rely on from your government, of indemnification 
in case of loss; and I see your Parliament is about to 
fulfil those promises. To this I have no objection, 
because, though still our enemies, they are men; they 
are in necessity; and I think even a hired assassin 
has a right to his pay from his employer. It seems, 
too, more reasonable that the expense of paying 
these should fall upon the government who encour- 
aged the mischief done, rather than upon us who 
suffered it; the confiscated estates making amends 
but for a very small part of that mischief. It is not, 
therefore, clear that our retaining them is chargeable 
with injustice. 
I have hinted above, that the name loyalist was im- 
properly assumed by these people. Royalists they 
may perhaps be called. But the true loyalists were 
the people of America, against whom they acted. 
No people were ever known more truly loyal, and 
universally so, to their sovereigns. The Protestant 
succession in the House of Hanover was their idol. 
Not a Jacobite was to be found from one end of the 
colonies to the other. They were affectionate to the 
people of England, zealous and forward to assist in 
her wars, by voluntary contributions of men and 
money, even beyond their proportion. The king 
and Parliament had frequently acknowledged this by 
public messages, resolutions, and reimbursements. 
But they were equally fond of what they esteemed 
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