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Show uo‘ A L a A N Y P A P E Rs continued. feited the native right of Britons; which they [A: B. T.] Letter to G.Shirley on an Union. 1 29 thinl; ought rather to be given to them, as due to Inch meiit, if they had been before in a Rate of III. L E T T E R to toe jiznze, an the Snéjefl qf llavery. ---- -- Thefe, and fuch kind of things as thefe I appre- uniting t/oe colanier more intiinaz‘eél wit/J Great hend, will be thought and [aid by the people, if Britain, by allowing tnezn reprefentatives in the prolioletl alteration of the Albany plan {hould take place. Then the adminifiration of the board ot‘governors and council f0 appomted, not havrng parliament. S-IR, Brflon, Dec. 22, I754. the reprel‘entative body of the people to approve and unite in its meafures, and conciliate the minds of the people to them, will probably become fuf- SIN CE the converfation your Excellency was peeled and odious ,- dangerous animofities and Uniting the colonie: more intimately with Great Britain, by allowing them reprefentaz‘iver in par- feuds will arife between the governors and go- verned ; and every thing go into confufion. Perhaps I am too apprehenfive in this matter; but having freely given my opinion‘and reafons, your Excellency can judge better than I, whether there be any weight in them ; and the fhortnefs of the time allowed me, will I hope in fome de- gree excufe the imperfections of this fcrawl. With the greatef't refpeét and fidelity, I have pleafed to honour me with, on the fubjeét of liament, I have fornething further confidered that matter; and am of opinion, that fuch an union would be very acceptable to the colonies; pro~ vided they had a reafonable number of reprefentatives allowed them; and that all the old aéts of parliament reftraining the trade or cramping the manufactures of the colonies, be at the fame time repealed, and the Brz'z‘ifl) fubjeéts on tailrflde tbe water, put, in thofe refpeéts, on the fame footing with thofe in Great Britain, till the new parliament, reprefenting the whole, {hall the honour to be Your Excellency's mofi: obedient, and mofl: humble Servant, think it for the interefl; of the whole to re-enaét fome or all of them: it is not that I imagine f0 many reprefentatives will be allowed the colonies, as to have any great weight by their numbers; butI think there might be fuflicient, to occafion thofe laws to be better and more impartially confidered, and perhaps to overcome the intereft B. FRANKLIN. 0f a petty corporation, or of any particular (e; o |
