The major part, the stronger side,
On horseback set, will surely ride:
“And wherefore shoud we not, say they,
“If every dog must have his day?
“Infinite pains if we have took,
“At nothing stopt, at nothing stuck,
“But waded on, thro’ thick and thin,
“The saddle, and the horse to win![”]
We now prescribe the peaceful law,
And soon our Forces shall withdraw,
And spare the Nation’s farther pains
To quel the brave Americans;
Conquer them, it appears, we coud not,
And reason good, because we woud not,
When to secure our private ends,
The war we trusted to our friends,
Who full of zeal sincere and hearty
Their Country sold, to serve their Party,
By all the arts of peculation
Spoil’d their Allies, and fleec’d the nation,
Baffled the credulous majority,
And shelter took in the minority.
Why shoud we now renounce our ease
For a few paultry colonies?
Why vindicate our Monarch’s right,
Or for the Constitution fight?
For King and Country what care we,
For George, or his Supremacy?
For Loyalists, or their distresses?
Our care is, To secure our places,
The brave Americans to crown,
And turn this kingdom upside down.
Our fixt Resolve we first declare,
To end at once this wasting war:
But if both sides refuse to bend,
How shoud the quarrel have an end?
Then let us beg, or buy, a peace,
The high and mighty States confess,
Allow them to be Independant,
And thus we make a glorious end on’t!
The major part, the stronger side
Hymnal/Album: This hymn was included in a manuscript titled “MS Patriotism.” This manuscript is held by the Methodist Archive and Research Centre of the John Rylands Library at The University of Manchester (accession number 1977/559, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 2). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 1 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1988), pages 148-49.
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