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stultify our own past. He pointed out, as a practical man, 
that, whether we liked it or not, the fact remained that they 
did mean to resist our taxation, and that we should not be 
able to impose our will upon them without a long and bloody 
fight in which we might be beaten ; and he implored the 
formalists not to take their stand upon a literal interpreta- 
tion of what they conceived to be our legal rights. "Force," 
he said, " may subdue for a moment ; but it does not remove 
the necessity of subduing again ; and a nation is not 
governed which is perpetually to be conquered." And, 
arguing that generous "conciliatory concession" was the only 
thing that would pay in the long run, he met the case of 
those who were always afraid that once the attempt at 
coercion were abandoned all would be lost : 
But the colonies will go further. — Alas I alas I When 
will this speculating against fact and reason end ? What 
will quiet these panic fears which we entertain of the hostile 
efiect of a conciliatory conduct ? Is it true that no case 
can exist, in which it is proper for the sovereign to accede 
to the desires of his discontented subjects ? Is there any- 
thing pecuUar in this case, to make a rule for itsel: ? Is 
all authority, of course, lost, when it is not pushed to the 
extreme ? Is it a certain maxim, that, the fewer causes of 
dissatisfaction are left by government, the more the subject 
will be inclined to resist and rebel ? 
The younger Pitt's speech, years later, on the peace, should 
be read in conjunction w^th this, a peace in which (he said) 
anything that was inadequate was 
chargeable to the noble lord in the blue ribbon, whose 
profusion of the public's money, whose notorious temerity 
and obstinacy in prosecuting the war, which originated in 
his pernicious and oppressive pohcy, and whose utter 
incapacity to fill the station he occupied, rendered peace 
of any description indispensable to the preservation of the 
State. 
These passages, one thinks, should adorn the pages of 
American school-books as a proper supplement to accounts 
of the Boston Tea-Party. 
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Burke's exposition mainly appealed to the reason ; 
Chatham's magnificent speech on the employment of savage 
Red Indian troops against the Colonists struck another note. 
Few things in English oratory are more passionate and 
more moving than his elaboration of the horror of this 
plan ; and in vigour and vividness the rest of the speech 
does not fall far short of it. "You cannot, I venture to say- 
it — you cannot conquer America." " I love and honour the 
English troops : I know their virtues and their ivalour : I 
know they can achieve anything except impossibilities : 
You may swell every expense and every effort still more 
extravagantly ; pile and accumulate evei-y assistance you 
can buy or borrow ; trafific and barter with every little 
pitiful German prince that sells and sends his subjects to 
the shambles of a foreign prince : your efforts are for ever 
vain and impotent — doubly so from this mercenary aid on 
which you rely ; for it imitates, to an incurable resentment, 
the minds of your enemies — to overrun them with the 
mercenary sons of rapine and phmder ; devoting them and 
their possessions to the rapacity of hireUng cruelty ! If 
I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign 
troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down 
my arms — never — never — never I 
The peroration beginning "My lords, I am old and weak, 
and at present unable to say more," brought a noble speech 
to a close as effective as anything in the annals of oratoiy. 
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The Colonists and ourselves are now united against those 
same "mercenary sons of rapine and plunder," not greatly 
changed during the interval. That Chatham could not have 
foreseen ; but the prophecy was made, though anything but 
hopefully, by a contemporary who did not sharehis views. 
In a suppressed passage of his pamphlet. Dr. Johnson, who 
saw in America a breeding ground of democrats and con- 
temners of authority, lamented ;. 
By Dr. Franklin's rule of progression, they will, in a century 
and a quarter be more than equal to the inhabitants of 
Europe. When the Whigs of America are thus multiplied, 
let the Princes of the earth tremble in their palaces. 
The "Whigs" have multiplied; and they are on the move. 
Readers of Land & Water are familiar, with M. Emile 
Cammaerts' poems on the war. Written in French, they are 
among the most notable literary work which this terrible 
struggle has eUcited. Under the title of Messines. a new 
collection of them is now pubHshed (John Lane, 3s. 6d.) with 
English translations by Mme. Tite Brand-Cammaerts. This 
poet has been well called "one of the strongest and sweetest 
of Belgian singers," his work is exquisite— full of beauty 
and pathos. 
