8491. TRADE, Restrictions on.—[continued].
We cannot, my lord,
close with the terms of that resolution [Lord
North's conciliatory Proposition] because on
our agreeing to contribute our proportion towards
the common defence, they do not propose
to lay open to us a free trade with all
the world: whereas, to us it appears just that
those who bear equally the burdens of government
should equally participate of its benefits;
either be contented with the monopoly of our trade, which brings greater loss to us
and benefit to them than the amount of our
proportional contributions to the common defence;
or, if the latter be preferred, relinquish
the former, and not propose, by holding both,
to exact from us double contributions.—
Address to Lord Dunmore.
Ford ed., i, 457.
(R.
1775)
