Such a
peace is not the peace which the remnant of Christianity celebrates at
this holy season. In it there is no glory to God on high, and not the
least tincture of good-will to man. What things we have lived to see!
The King of Spain in a group of Moors, Jews, and Renegadoes; and the
clergy taxed to pay for his conversion! The Catholic King in the strict
embraces of the most Unchristian Republic! I hope we shall never see his
Apostolic Majesty, his Faithful Majesty, and the King, Defender of the
Faith, added to that unhallowed and impious fraternity.
The noble author has glimpses of the consequences of peace, as well as
I. He feels for the colonies of Great Britain, one of the principal
resources of our commerce and our naval power, if piratical France shall
be established, as he knows she must be, in the West Indies, if we sue
for peace on such terms as they may condescend to grant us. He feels
that their very colonial system for the interior is not compatible with
the existence of our colonies. I tell him, and doubt not I shall be able
to demonstrate, that, being what she is, if she possesses a rock there,
we cannot be safe.
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