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That the people of America should be severed from Great Britain, even your fellow Congressionalists from the North would not be hardy enough yet to avow; but that this will certainly follow from the measures you have been induced by them to adopt, is obvious to every man who is permitted yet to think for himself. See ye not that after some few years of civil broils all the fair settlements in the middle and southern colonies will be seized on by our more enterprising and restless fellow-colonists of the North? At first and for a while perhaps they may be contented to be the Dutch of America, i.e. to be our carriers and fishmongers, for which no doubt, as their sensible historian - Edmund Burke - has observed, they seem to be destined by their situation, soil, and climate: but had so sagacious an observer foreseen that a time might come when all North America should be independent, he would, it is probable, have added to his other remark, that those his Northern brethren would then become also the Goths and Vandals of America.

Reminiscences of an American Loyalist - first published serially in 'Notes and Queries' - 1874 http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jonathan_Boucher

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Sincerely do I wish it were not now necessary to crave your indulgence a few minutes longer, - it shall be but a few, - to speak of myself. If I am to credit some surmises which have been kindly whispered in my ear, and I am proud thus publicly to acknowledge that it is to a man whose political tenets are the opposite of mine that I owe the information communicated, no doubt from motives of good will and humanity, unless I will forbear to pray for the King, you are to hear me pray no longer. No intimation could possibly have been less welcome to me. Distressing, however, as the dilemma confessedly is, it is not one that either requires or will admit of a moment's hesitation. Entertaining all due respect for my ordination vows I am firm in my resolution, whilst I pray at all, to conform to the unmutilated Liturgy of my Church; and referencing the injunctions of an Apostle, I will continue to pray for the King; and all who are in authority under him; and I will do so not only because I am so commanded, but that, as the Apostle adds, "we may continue to lead quiet and peaceable lives in all godliness and honesty." Inclination as well as duty confirms me in this purpose. As long as I live, therefore - yes whilst I have my being, will I, with Zadok the Priest, with Nathan the Prophet, proclaim God save the King

Farewell Sermon at St Barnabas - 1775 http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jonathan_Boucher

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It is surprising what improper and indecent contentions these popular elections occasioned. I have oftener than once known half-a-dozen candidates all trying for a vacant parish, and preaching alternately, to give their electors an opportunity of determining what they liked best. Voice and action, as is remarked in a very humorous pamphlet respecting London lectureships, almost constantly carried it. Preachers and ministers so elected, continuing still in some degree dependent on the people, continued also chiefly to cultivate those arts by which their favour had first been gained. Their sermons were light, flippant, and ordinary; but their manner of preaching was pleasing and popular.

Reminiscences of an American Loyalist - first published serially in 'Notes and Queries' - 1874 http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jonathan_Boucher

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As for lawyers, they seemed to grow up spontaneously; many of the first name and note in that profession were men without any education, and totally illiterate. Such a state of society was peculiar, and could not but have peculiar effects; for no other body of men, nor all the other bodies of men put together, had half so much influence as the lawyers.

Reminiscences of an American Loyalist - first published serially in 'Notes and Queries' - 1874 http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jonathan_Boucher

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I will continue to pray for the King; and all who are in authority under him. As long as I live, will I, proclaim: God save the King.

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I have not seldom blushed at the Indian's account of the treatment they have experienced from white men: but, I trust, the period is not far distant, when, for our own sakes, as well as for theirs, we shall endeavor to diffuse political security and happiness to the Indian nations with whom we have any intercourse; and to convert them into free men.

Happiness, Men, Politics, Trust

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