1A Description of Those, Who, at Any Rate, Would Have a Peace with France, 24 November 1759 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The London Chronicle: or Universal Evening Post , November 22–24, 1759. The two prevailing motives among us, which strongly bias great numbers of people, at this time, to wish for a peace with France, let the terms be ever so dishonourable, ever so disadvantageous, or likely to prove of ever so short a duration, are Power and Self-interest. As to the First, there is a set of men,...