Four tracts, on political and commercial subjects

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SUBJECTgmg, "108 POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL And what a Pity it is, that you have been Slaves that, though you raife a terrible Outcry agaim‘i the fuppofed Violation of your Charters; you yourfelf would not refi the Merits of your Caufc upon the Proof of inch 21 Violation; and that "you would rather drop that Point, than attempt 'tojuftify the Charge if called upon to do it. WHAT then is it, which you have next to offer? Oh! The Unreafonablenefs! the In" jufiice ! and the Cruelty of taxing a free Peo- for f0 many Generations, and yet did not know that you were Slaves until now. BUT let that pafs, my dear Coufin; for I always choole to confute you in your own Way, Now, if you mean any Thing at all by the Words unreafonable, unjuft, and cruel, as ufed in this Difpute; you muft mean, that the Mother Country deals worfe by you, than by the Inhabitants of Great-Britain; and that fhe " ple, without permitting them to have Repredenies certain conltitutional Rights and Privi-- " fentatives of their own to anfwer for them, " and to maintain their fundamental Rights and "‘ Privileges !" leges to you abroad, which we enjoy here at home. Now pray what are thefe conltitutional Rights and Liberties which are refufed to you? STRANGE, that you did not difcover theft Name them, if you can. The Things which- ‘bad Things before! Strange, that though the Britijlz Parliament has been, from the Beginning, thus unrcafonaéle, thus unjufl, and cruel to- wards you, by levying Taxes on many Commodities outwards and inwards,--nay, by laying an internal Tax, the Poi't-Tax for Example» on the whole Britzfli Empire in flmerim g-and, what is fiill worfe, by making Laws to afl'eél your Property,---your Paper Currency, and you pretend to ailedge are, " The Rights of " voting for Members of the Briti/k Parliament; " and the Liberty of chuiing your own Repre" fentatives." But furely you will not dare to fay, that we refule your Votes, when you come hither to olfer them, and choofe to poll: You cannot have the Face to aITert, that on an Elec- tion Day any Difference is put between the Vote of a Man born in America, and of one born here even to take away Life itfelf, if you offend againi't them :---Strange and unaccountable, l fay, that after you had fufi‘ered this f0 long, you filould not have been able to have dilcovered, 'that you were without Reprelentatives in the Brité/iz Parliament, ofyour own clefiing, 'till this enlightening Tax‘upon Paper opened your E2335; - n in England. Yet this you muft afTert, and prove too, before you can fay any Thing to the prefent Purpofe. Suppofe therefore, that an flmm'mn hath acquired a Vote (as he legally may, and many have done) in any of our Cities or Counties, Towns, or Boroughs; {up- pofe, "\l‘lWlil-l"