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Show .. ,.____‘.._..____,_._.--_--...__..‘..". _ _ 70) long borne, that. the urrtlerfiamling _ and the fpirits of the pcop'e are iunk into ignorance and barbariliu, furimneis and perfect inactivityt Such,I yet trult, is not_ the deplorable hate of the land of my nativity. How ioon it may be-we {hall tremble, when we reflect that the progrels of thraldoni is iecret and its etlcfts incredibly rapid, and dreadful. * Hence we fee nati- ons once the freel‘t and molt high-lpirited 1n Luropq abject in the molt humiliating condition. The oath of allegiance to their king exhibits the true ftandard of all jufi firbjec'tion, to go- vernment, and teiiilies a genuine ienle and ipirit. "\Ve, who are each of us as good, and " who are altogether more powerfzd flier/1 you, promge " obedience toyozzr government"3 1r mu MAINTAIN OUR .HIHIII " RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES; ll" NOT, NOT. 1L" VJhen a people, endowed with inch underflanding, fentiments and virtue have fallen into a difgracefirl vaITalage-what have we in this land, at i/Jir [iii/‘5, reafon to fear ?--The fame Athenian: Who infulted and bid defiance to 2. Phillip of Macedon crouched and cowled at the feet of an Alexander. the deepelt concern 3-4! Mix day, they ought to do more-to infpire fortitude and attion. Providence from the beginning hath exercifed this country with fingular trials.‘ In the earlieft periods of our hiftory, New-England is feen fur;‘ounded with adveriaries, and alternately vexed with foes foreign and domefiick. Fierce as her enc- mies were from abroad and favage as the Na. tives of America were within,-.--her worft enemies will be found thofe of her own houfeliold.~- Our fathers "left their native country with " t/Je flroizggxf qflierance that they and their pryfe- ‘ rity {hould enjoy the priviledges of free natu- " ral born Eizg/ifly/‘uojefii. " "‘ Depending upon thefe all‘urances, they fuflained hard-{hips {careely parrelled in the annals of the world. 7* yet compafiion natural to the human breafi did not re{train internal foes from involving them in new calamities, nor did that difgrace and contempt which fuddenly fell upon the confpirators damp the ardour of their malignity. {muss who with righ- 80 early as 1633,(not fourteen years after the firft teous indignation expelled royalty and the Tar,quins bore with infamy and ihame the ravages pf iucceeding kings and emperors. l‘lNGLISlL MEN who roi'en‘ith a divine enthufiafin againft t/Je fizfl Charles, dilgracefully fubmitted‘ to the arrival at Plymouth) ," the new fettlel‘s were in perils itate ot. the country, while expofed to innumerable ufurpation of a Cromwell, and then with unex- ‘7 beheld the Mafiaclrilietts with an envious eve :"§ ampled folly and madnefs refiored that odious and execrable race 'of tyrants, the houfe of SteWart. Examples, like thcfe, ought to excite ‘ ' the this province were feereey rim! iizdu/Zry : they had ‘3 The lots of‘liherty({ays that {agacious politician Tacitus) is: emr accompanied with the lofs of fpirit and magnanimity. rid); Robeni‘ua's hilt. Chel. 5. I vol. 153. Vita Agrict " from i/Jeir own eozmtrymeiz." i In this, the infant hardlhips, vexed with holiilities from Europe and the depredations offavages, there exifted men, who The chara&erilticks of the firft eonfpirators againlt (fl'eéted. * See Hutch. hilt. I vol. Pref. p. 4. 'f' See famchilt. p. 19 4;. Appendix ' 1 Same hilt. p. 31. ii). p. 31. p. 533. |