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$Address to the British Colonists in North America$
$Edmund Burke$
$Date and Place unknown$
$From Speeches and Letters on American Affairs$
$Edited by Peter McKevitt$
$A.C.D.$
ADDRESS TO THE BRITISH COLONISTS
IN NORTH AMERICA
THE very dangerous crisis, into which the British empire
is brought, as it accounts for, so it justifies, the unusual
step we take in addressing ourselves to you.
The distempers of the state are grown to such a degree
of violence and malignity as to render all ordinary remedies
vain and frivolous. In such a deplorable situation an adherence
to the common forms of business appears to us rather as an
apology to cover a supine neglect of duty, than the means of
performing it in a manner adequate to the exigency that presses
upon us. The common means we have already tried, and tried to no
purpose. As our last resource, we turn ourselves to you. We
address you merely in our private capacity; vested with no other
authority than what will naturally attend those, in . . .
