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Show 1 IO POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL SUBJECTS. 111: pofe, that he is become a Freeman, or a Free. you pleafe) of refiding and voting here. holder here in England -,---on that State of the Cafe, prove if you can, that his VOte was ever this is your own free Choice; and we leave vou refufed, becaufe he was born in flmcrim:---Provc then, are we obliged to alter our Political 8letem merely to accord with your Convenience? Are we to change and new model our fixed and this, May, and then I will allow, that your Complaints are very jull; and that you are indeed the much injured, the cruelly treated People, you would make the Word believe. BUT, my good Friend, is this {uppofed Re- fufal the real Caufe of your Complaint? Is this the Grievance that calls fo loudly for Redrels? Oh! no, you have no Complaint of this Sort to make : But the Caule of your Complaint is this; that you live at too great a Difiance from the Mother Country to be prefent at our EMgZ/Tflz Now at full Liberty toact as you think proper: 13th ancient Conflitution, jull as you {hall fee fit to command us? and according as it {hall pleale you to remove from Place to Place? And is this the Complailance, which you expe& the Mother Country {hould 111er to her dutiful Children? Yes, it is; and you demand it too with a loud Voice, full of Anger, of Defiance, and Denunciation. HOWEVER, the Lion is not always {0 fierce as Eleftions, and that in Confequence of this Diflance, the Freedom of our Towns, or the Freeholds in our Counties, as far as voting is Compliance, it is to be hoped, that we may be allowed to expof'tulate with you in a few harm- concerned, are not worth attending to. lefs, unbloody Words. It may he is painted; and 'till we are beaten into :1. Granting therefore, that be fo; but pray confider, if you yourfelves do choofe to make it inconvenient for you to come and vote, by retiring into dif'tant Countries,--what is that to us? And why are we to be re- the Colonies are unreprefented in the Britzflz Parliament: Granting that two Millions of People 111 America have, in this Refpeft, no Choice, nor proached for committing a ‘ Violation on the ‘ Birtlivrights of Engliflzmm, which, if it bea the Cafe, and their Dillance from the Place of Election:---What would you infer from this Conceflion? And wherein can fuch Kind of Topics fupport your Caufe? For know, young Man, that not only two Millions which are the ‘ Violation, is committed only by yetir'lelves?' It feems, you find it to be your particular Interell to live in the Colonies; it feems, Ellat . you prefer the Emoluments of refiding thereto your Capacity, or Capability (take which Word you Election of their own, through the Necefiity of utmol't, that your exaggerated Accounts can be fwelled to 3-:1 fay not only two Millions, but fix __ a "\llhllllll" |