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Show To the Freeman of Pewlvam'a. 402 [P- P.) aini't the Lord Proprietary; ‘foigoi'g1151: 121:: nce fiction are now abuiing the::xh1:11 the VimIC + f the rovmce, w £1: gluatgersexiefend miilice can dré‘tate; henforcled ent :nilyv d:r:tt oldds, iiiiinberlefs barefaced falfho ‘ d bafe won t , iiewiii? talii: mof't weak and credulous can mgfinii an poflibly believe. V E R I TA S. r m J Remaré; on a late Protefl aga iiyi tee Appointment of Mr. F R A N K L I N (I! flg em‘fir tbzir Province [of Penfylvania]. I I Have generally paired ove gard, the namelcfr abufiver, with, a filent difre-J written againit me 1-; and pieces that have been though this paper, called a PROTEST, is figned by fome refpeé ‘table names, I was, nevert helefs, inclined to tre at it with the fame indifference ,- But as the Aflbmbly 1 my accoun t, . hardly necefl'ary to mention here,Ethat Penfylvama was .] ‘ctfleci iatyl: mixture of German and Eng]: 0. It IS I would firf‘c obferve the n, that this mode of protg/z'z'ng by the minority, with a firing of rea{ons againfl : the proceedings of the majority of the Houfe of Aflémbly, is quite new amon us, the prefent is the fecond we have had of the kind, and both within a few months. It is unknow n to the practice of the Houfe of Commons, or of any Houfe ofReprefe ntatives in America, that I have heard of; and {ee ms an affected imitation of the Lords in Parliamen t,- which can by no me ans be come Aflbmbly-men of Am pears the abfurdity of the erica.-Hence a - complaint, that the Houfe refufed the Proteft an entry on their minutes. The protef'ters kn ow that they are not, by any cuftom or ufage, int itl and that the practice her ed to fuch an entry; e is not only ufelefs in itfelf, but would be highly inconvenient to the Remark 1* [N.B. This was written and figned by Dr. Franklin. F ff 2 E] Houfe |
