A. In three years I think there may.
Q. Does not the severity of the winter in the northern colonies occasion the wool to be of bad quality?
A. No, the wool is very fine and good. * * * *
Q. Considering the resolution of Parliament[20] as to the right, do you think, if the stamp-act is repealed, that the North Americans will be satisfied?
A. I believe they will.
Q. Why do you think so?
A. I think the resolutions of right will give them very little concern if they are never attempted to be carried into practice. The colonies will probably consider themselves in the same situation in that respect with Ireland: they know you claim the same right with regard to Ireland, but you never exercise it. And they may believe you never will exercise it in the colonies any more than in Ireland, unless on some very extraordinary occasion.
Q. But who are to be the judges of that extraordinary occasion? Is not the Parliament?
A. Though the Parliament may judge of the occasion, the people will think it can never exercise such right till representatives from the colonies are admitted into Parliament; and that, whenever the occasion arises, representatives will be ordered. * *
Q. Can anything less than a military force carry the stamp-act into execution?