344 Means of raijing an additional Tax for the Current Service, 
dom in one ftate only can prevent wars. The improvements of 
nations, and the wifdom as well as folly of adminiftrations, will 
draw on refentments, or excite the avarice of ambitious neigh- 
bors. 
Men of reflexion foon ballance in their thoughts, which of 
the two is the greater evil. If war mull; be fupported, fome- 
thing muft be done to prevent the augmentation of the debt, 
or, foon or late, it certainly will fall under its own weight. 
Many of us now alive have feen a great national debt wiped 
out with a spunge, in an arbitrary country ; and many thou- 
fands ruined by a south-sea dream in a free state. We can- 
not determine what evils will attend our going farther in a 
road which to all human appearance will terminate in destruc- 
tion, with regard to the debt in queftion. If we unite to pro- 
tect every member of the community, we become invincible. 
Virtue, courage, and liberty, are infeparable companions ; 
and fo are vice, cowardice, and slavery. But if we pur- 
fue meafures deftrudtive of the public debt, we fhall difunite ; 
we fhall violate common juftice ; and without any real augmen- 
tation of our riches, we fhall rob the innocent, plunder the 
guiltlefs, and entail beggary on thoufands. 
The befb affurance that we fhall conquer our enemies abroad, 
is to support ourfelves at home. Who that loves his country, 
will not exert himfelf for fo generous a purpofe ? Who that 
wifhes well to the governing part of the nation, will not be mor' 
tifled to fee miniflers involved in difficulties and diffreffes, for 
want of money ? Who that knows any thing of the world, does 
not fee the advantages of quick payments, and a brisk circula- 
tion, 
