Caricature and Other Comic Art in All Times and Many Lands.Parton, James
History
Caricature and Other Comic Art in All Times and Many Lands.
Parton, James
Caricature -- History
"Whoever would live peaceably in Philadelphia, above all things
it is necessary that he hold the Federal faith--and the Federal
faith is this, that there are two governing powers in this
country, both equal, and yet one superior: which faith except
every one keep undefiledly, without doubt he shall be abused
everlastingly.
"The Briton is superior to the American, and the American is
inferior to the Briton: and yet they are equal, and the Briton
shall govern the American.
"The Briton, while here, is commanded to obey the American, and
yet the American ought to obey the Briton.
"And yet they ought not both to be obedient, but only one to be
obedient. For there is one dominion nominal of the American, and
another dominion real of the Briton.
"And yet there are not two dominions, but only one dominion.
"For like as we are compelled by the British constitution book to
acknowledge that _subjects_ must submit themselves to their
monarchs, and be obedient to them in all things:
"So we are forbid by our Federal executive to say that we are at
all influenced by our treaty with France, or to pay regard to
what it enforceth:
"The American was created for the Briton, and the Briton for the
American:
"And yet the American shall be a slave to the Briton, and the
Briton the tyrant of the American.
"And Britons are of three denominations, and yet only of one
soul, nature, and subsistency:
"The Irishman of infinite impudence:
"The Scotchman of cunning most inscrutable:
"And the Englishman of impertinence altogether insupportable:
"The only true and honorable gentlemen of this our blessed
country.
"He, therefore, that would live in quiet, must thus think of the
Briton and the American.
"It is furthermore necessary that every _good_ American should
believe in the infallibility of the executive, when its
proclamations are echoed by Britons:
"For the true faith is, that we believe and confess that the
Government is fallible and infallible:
"Fallible in its republican nature, and infallible in its
monarchical tendency, erring in its state of individuality, and
unerring in its Federal complexity.
"So that though it be both fallible and infallible, yet it is not
twain, but one government only, as having consolidated all state
dominion, in order to rule with sway uncontrolled.
"This is the true Federal faith, which except a man believe and
practice faithfully, beyond all doubt he shall be cursed
perpetually."
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