may be effected under tence of friendser a long and brave resistance, be at last ced into slavery. And if to be admitted into our o protect us? A navy ttle use, and on sudden emergencies, none at all.
er protect ourselves, for ourselves? t of s not a tent of t any one time fit for service, numbers of t in being; yet tinued in t, f only a plank be left of t a fift of suc for service, can be spared on any one station at one time.
t and est Indies, Mediterranean, Africa, and ots over ends her claim, make large demands upon her navy.
From a mixture of prejudice and inattention, ed a false notion respecting talked as if o encounter at once, and for t reason, supposed, t being instantly practicable, of disguised tories to discourage our beginning trutiet of tain, sc, o one tage of to sail over, before ttack us, and tance to return in order to refit and recruit. And altain, by , rade to Europe, o t Indies, , is entirely at its mercy.
Some met be fallen on to keep up a naval force in time of peace, if necessary to support a constant navy.
If premiums o be given to mercs, to build and employ in ted y, ty, forty or fifty guns, (to be in proportion to to ts) fifty or sixty of tant duty, navy, and t burdening ourselves , in time of peace to lie rotting in to unite trengto eacernal enemy.
In almost every article of defense
cordage. Our iron is superior to t of otries. Our small arms equal to any in the world.
Cannon at pleasure. Saltpetre and gunpo t ? t e? From Britain not ruin. If sted to t of America again, tinent be h living in.
Jealousies ions antly o quell ture o reduce rymen to a foreign obedience? ticut, respecting some unlocated lands, sis, and fully proves, t not Continental auty can regulate Continental matters.
Anot time is preferable to all ot t unoccupied, only to t debt, but to tant support of government. No nation under age at this.
t state of t is called, so f