. Camps and firesides of the revolution . l. No. 53] I?idepe?idence J73 If this is to be the case, it will have this good effectat least. It will inspire us with many virtues, whichwe have not, and correct many errors, follies andvices which threaten to disturb, dishonor, and destroyus. The furnaceof affliction pro-duces refinement,in States as well asindividuals. Andthe new govern-ments we are as-suming in everypart will requirea purification fromour vices, and anaugmentation ofour virtues, or theywill be no bless-ings. Had a Declara-tion of Indepen-dency been madeseven months ago,it would ha
. Camps and firesides of the revolution . l. No. 53] I?idepe?idence J73 If this is to be the case, it will have this good effectat least. It will inspire us with many virtues, whichwe have not, and correct many errors, follies andvices which threaten to disturb, dishonor, and destroyus. The furnaceof affliction pro-duces refinement,in States as well asindividuals. Andthe new govern-ments we are as-suming in everypart will requirea purification fromour vices, and anaugmentation ofour virtues, or theywill be no bless-ings. Had a Declara-tion of Indepen-dency been madeseven months ago,it would have beenattended withmany great and glorious effects. We might, beforethis hour, have formed alliances with foreign should have mastered Quebec, and been in pos-session of Canada. You will perhaps wonder howsuch a declaration would have influenced our affairsin Canada, but if I could write with freedom, I couldeasily convince you that it would, and explain to youthe manner how. On the other hand, the delay of this declaration to. LIBERTY 74 P repa,7*i?ig for Revolution [No. 53 This beliefhas been jus-tified, thoughthe preciseday selectedis July 4. this time has many great advantages attending hopes of reconciliation, which were fondly enter-tained by multitudes of honest and well-meaning,though weak and mistaken people, have been gradu-ually and, at last, totally extinguished. Time has been given for the whole people maturelyto consider the great question of independence, andto ripen their judgment, dissipate their fears, and al-lure their hopes, by discussing it in newspapers andpamphlets, by debating it in assemblies, conventions,committees of safety and inspection, in town andcounty meetings, as well as in private conversations,,so that the whole people, in every colony of the thir-teen, have now adopted it as their own act. This will cement the union, and avoid those heats,and perhaps convulsions, which might have beenoccasioned by such a declaration
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