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Show DEDICATORY. you entertained no luch Delign, Now, to corivince liich as there of their z\"illal;e, would have been a tedious Aflhir, and have colt the Author of this Tract a good deal of Trouble, in the Way of Reafoning and Argumentation, But you have. done it efii'cl‘ually at once: And for the future it is impofilble to mifapprehend poor fiza'z'mzs entitled to the like Rights and Benefits? And how comes it to pals, that thefe immutable Law; of Nature are become lo very mutable, and {0 very infignificant in refpect to them? They probably never ceded to any P0wer,~--moll certainly they never ceded to you, a Right of difpofing of their Lives, Liberties, and Properties, jull as you pleafe. And yet what horrid Cruelties do you daily praétife on your Meaning. You have now plainly and fiatly told us, without any Colouring or Dil- the Bodies of the poor Negroes; over whom guile, that you renounce all Subjeélion whatever you can have no Claim, according to your own to the Legiflarureof the Parent-State; and that Principles P you will not acknowledgmthat {he has any other Authority or Juriltiiction over you -,-:-Z;zzt w/mi Ulurpations are you daily guilty of in relpec‘t to the poor Indium, the only true and rightful Pro- you yomy'ei'ew f/mlf pleafi: ‘to give 1267'. This is prietors of the Country which you inhabit 5' Tpealsing plainly and to the Purpofe: And lo tar you have afted a fair and confiflent Part. BUT, Gentlemen, are you anti your Conflituents, (for I here include you all) equally con- he e Things, Gentlemen, onghtnot to be: For Whill‘t you, and your Conftituents, are charge- able with To mucn rm] Tyranny, lniullice, and Opprefiion ; you dcclaim with a very ill Grace .iil'tent and uniform in other Parts of your Con- againlli the imaginary Tyranny, and the pretended duct 9 And can it be affirmed, that you are as firenuous Advocates for Liberty in other Cafes, as you are in this 9 You bravely declare, " That " by the z'mmzrtué/e Laws of Nature, you are en- m- quaintecl withiyour Manner of carrying on your ZUH'IETfiig Trade with the Iridium, any more than " titled to Life, Liberty, and Property."---Certainly yo rare: And the Realon you give is not a bad Um?» Wh€n fdm-{y underflood, viz, " BC " caul "‘21:;me i‘ Power whatever, a Right to tlifpofe of either " withott your Confent." Permit me therefore to aik, Why are not the poor Negroes, and the , the breaking up of your Congrels, it has been Tolemnly declared, and that in Far lament, that "4 cau c you have never ceded to any Sovereign ' and fet up for Independence. And very many there were, who either could not, or would not fee, that you intended it at all. Nay, even fince v -. 4153i" E What fhameful Robberies and (.ippreilion ofthe Mmher- Country. lam not ur- with your Treatment of your unhappy Slaves the Blacks. I could allo give lonie specimens of your eyzliz‘aé/g Mode of mealuring, and making .l'urchalbs of Lands from the Natives ,-~-cven when id L V. T \ "it I i' V 'M' I g‘ 1 P ii ll) 31' time; P n "3"? thirteen ‘~ :iv |