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Show 44o , ,. . , . , i'. _: 1."; off/warm Condu€t adazr! a Law. PREFACE to Mr. Galloway': Sl'M't‘C‘l). been more to the honour of the family, and ofhis own difcretion. But he was pleafed to found upon it a claim manifef'tly unjuil, and which he was totally def'citute of reafon to fupport. A claim, that the proprietaries belt and moil valuable-lo- cated uncultivated lands, fliould be taxed no {91317-- er than the Worll: and leaft valuable of thoie 'belonging to the inhabitants: '10 enforce which, as he thought the words of one of me ilipulationj feemed to give fome countenance to 11:, he infif'teh on ufing thofc very words as lacred, from whic 4%. i iis predecei'ibrs had been hampered: *3 ti mil y therefore believed fully, {ll}(l re- d flincereiy. They lllL'WCd the new governor i‘.~:,'l'j)' mark of rcfpeet and regard that was in their power. They readily and cheerfully went into ever thing; he recommended to them. And whe y n he and his authority were infulted and endanger ed by a lawlcfs murdering mob; they and their frien ds tool; arms at his call, and formed themfelv es round him for his defence, and the fupport of his go- vernment-Butwhen itwas found that thofe mif- de- chicvous inll'ruélions flill fiibfifled, and were even viate; though he had agreed to dev1ate from words iarthcr extended ; when the governor began, un- provoket', to Ieiid the houle affronting meflhges, teizing every imaginary occafion of reflecting on he could " neither in decency or. in duty, [in] the fame report, and therefore equally {acrepi in every other infiance. A conduét whlch up . (as the prefacer fays in Governor Denny s .cafee')e 01 ever difgrace the annals of in: adminittration .- Never did any adminii'tration open With a more promyz'lzg profpect [than this or (:xovernor Pamlzl]. He afiured the people, in his firil lpeeches, ofht .e proprietaries paternal regard for them, and t. cg: 'fincere difpolitions to do every thing thatmrg- t promote their happineis: As the proprietaries had been pleai'ed to appomt a {on of thefamilyhto their conduct; when every,.0ther fymptom appeared of fixt deep-rooted family malice, which could but a little While bear the unnatural cover- ing that had been thrown over it,- VVhat wonder is it ifall the old wounds broke out and bled afreih; if all the old grievances, {till unredreiled,.were re- collefted; if defpair fucceeded of[feeing] any peace with a family, that could make fuch returns to all their overtures of kindnefs l And when in the very rthe government, it was thought not unlikely tfat proprietary council, compofed of {launch friends there might be fomething in theie profenionsfi; (of of the family, .and chofen for their attachment to it; it was ohferved; thatthe old mm (1 Kings, that they would probably choofe to have his l miniftration made eafy and agreeable; and to t tat 'end might think it prudent to Withdraw tho-16 harfh, difagreeable, and unjuft Ini‘truétions Will " For a fuller account of this difpute the reader is referred to the flaws papers, and votes of Affembly. which chap. .xii.) withdrew themfelves, finding their opinion flighted, and that all mealhres were taken by the advice of two or three yozmg mm (one of whom too denieshis fliareiin them;) is it anywon- dot; 'finc‘e-like caufes produce like elicits, if. the ~ L 1l rlfléméél, ' -h.». ‘\lilllIlllllllll‘lllll‘llllll‘il‘ilm All IlI-nl 1 ism-‘7 |