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Show 198 SUBJECTS.199‘ POLITICAL :1:ch COMMERCIAL for Example, when a Peace enfues (and flirt-1y it is not intended that we {hall be for ever in a State of War) then a civil Coni‘titution offome Kind or other muf't neceflhrily be efiabliflied'; and in the Cafe before us, there feems to be no other Alternative, but either the permitting the Colonies to enjoy once more thofe Advan- tages of Eagr'ij/z Liberty, and of an Eaglz'flz Conflitution, which they had forfeited; or ehe a Refolution to govern them for the future by arbitrary Sway and defpotic Power, It the latter fl'IOUlC‘l be the Plan adopted, Ithen humbly {ubmit it to be duly weighed and confidered, what a baleful Influence Liberties was again to take Place, it muf't alfo follow, that the Syi'tem of Trials by juries mul't return with them: And then, when xImerim than grow {tronger and {hanger every Day, and England proportionably weaker, how is an Infurreé‘tion to be quelled in flmm'ca? And what Englzflz Officer, civil or military, would dare to do it? Nay, I afk further, granting that he was 1b brave, or ‘rather f0 fool-hardy, as to attempt to do his Duty, who is to protect him in the Execution of his Office? Or how is he to be preferved, by due 14.077725 of Law, againi‘: the Determination of an zlmerz'czm Jury? A Tumult is exciret -,~«the Military is called forth ; 7-» the Soldiers are infulted; this Go'c'ermaizizt (z [a Przzflg would many per- have on every other Part of the Bi‘z'tiflz Empire. litre/(271.43 free, and [victim in Chains I And how haps wounded, and ionic even killed. The Patience of the Officers worn out, and in their own Defence, they are obliged to giv: the Word lbon would ‘iie enllaved Part ofthe Conliittitiiin, and perhaps the greater, contaminate the {F66 aid the lefi‘er? Nay, as flmgrz'm was found to increale in Strengm and Numbers, an Army of of Command tofire. 'l'he Relations of th {e who fell by this Fire, bring on an Appeal of Blood. The A'merz'cmz jury find the Officers who commanded, and perhaps the whole Corps Eizg'r/if/l z-f'cru Soldiers (for no others could be u \ truiteil, AL‘i an: of 50,000, and afterwards p61"haps of ioomco, would, {carcely be fullicicn: to he ‘p theie turbulent Spirits in Awe, and to prevent them, at loch a prodigious Diil'ancc who fired, guilty of wilful Murder; and [he-n all the Power of the Crown, [age/{y exerted, 13 not able to fave the Lives of there poor innocent Men. * Pitiable fure is fuch aCaie; and yet it from the Center of Goveinmcnt, from brcali- ing out into Iniurreétions and Rebellions :1 every favourable Opp rtunity. BEE if the former were to prevail, and a Return OfE/‘igW/Z Liberties 2: Since the firft Edition of this Pamphlet, an Act has Ireiative Fall for remedying the Evils foju‘lly apprehended Dillito the Cafe oi~ .»I,"=pm/: qf Bload.~-Bct itill, :ho this culty is removed, many and various ones yet remain. N4» is |