Some considerations on the bills of credit now passing in New-England. Addressed unto the…

3. All the Taxes hitherto raised have bin most advantageously Employed. Our Present Rulers, have no personal benefit by them; They spend their time and care, and are at cost too, for the Common Weal, and would count themselves well paid for all, in the Contentment, of the people. The great complaint is, That our venturesome Expedition to Canada hath run us into Debt. It should be Considered that the voice of the people every where called for it. Our-Neighbours in the West made us believe they would lay all the mischief that should be done by the French at our doors, if we did ⟨p. 14⟩not attempt it: such Importunities with assurances of aid by Land did first engage us and oblige us. Had the West not filled us, we had certainly bin Masters of Canada; and then our Expedition had been as much Exto••• as now it is Despised! it was not a thing too big for us, for notwithstanding the Failure in the West, and the […] of some among our selves, till the […] was too far spent for any Great Thing to be done; add also the scantness of our Ammunition, with the smallness of our Army; yet the missing of Quebec is hardly accountable to rational Satisfaction, Besides, the French had Assaulted us by Land before ever we visited them by Sea; and that short visit we made them, we are assured, has preserved our Country from further Assaults of theirs upon us. Nor is it rational to think that we can ever have a settled peace, while Canada is in French hands; if there should be a Peace between the two Cr•••, we may fear, they may, as they have boasted they will, by setting their Dogs (the Indians) upon us to make America too hot for us. Hence also the reducing of it unto the English Empire, was a Design wherein was manifest as the desire of our own future Welfare, so of doing the greatest Service to the Crown of England. The Design seemed to be as well said, as any that was e••• ⟨p. 15⟩undertaken in these parts of the World; and it had been dangerous to have delayed it unto another year; for had they not gone with the […] to Canada, a thousand Boss-l••ers had been upon our Country Towns and •aid them waste: Prayers and Hopes for one Good issue of that Expedition, met nor with a total Disappointment; nor do we […] see the […]; the business is not over yet.