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Show 26o ACTS RELATING Part Ill. scam. TO THE Commas. 3 6t conflitutional weal-:nel's, to call on parliament to apply a confiitutional remedy. Here then was ol‘l'cred as good an oppor- the beginnintr was now fickened over, and the cfiions cloled Without having tunity as could be ofliercd, to have the the complaints or'check the tumults of whole fyllem of American government the colonies. fairly cativalled, and to prepare the way for a general conflitutional reform. Parliament could have grounded that reform on a popular idea: in firengthcn- ing the hands of the civil magif'trate, they a wretched pallative. done any thing clfiétual, either to relie ve All that it did was to adopt " That did but {kin and film the ulcerous part, " While foul corruption running all beneat h, 5‘ Unfccn, infeflcd"--- would not fo much have feemcd to have been laying new rcfiraints on the colonies, as {hielding them from the danger of feeing the military erected into execu~ tors ofthe law. But (0 it was, parliament chofe rather to lit flill and fee every aét of its power abhorrcd, every aft of its lenity treated with contempt; it chofe rather to neglect the recommendation from the throne, and to forfeit its own engagements, than boldly enter on a fuhjec‘t, which, fooner or later, mutt he entered on more fully: the hue of refolution, which it had borrowed at 110 h > , mm |