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446 PREFACE to Air. Galloway': Speech. 'vellin [P. P.] retence to modelty, couched in that iiifeiiii-bareficdi'm of words, " Though we fay it, " that (hould not fay it."---But 18 it not furprifing that, during the {even weeks recefs of the affembly, cxprefsly to confult their condiments on the expediency of this meafure; and during the fourteen days the Houfe fat deliberating on it after they met aoain ; thefe their wifdoms andbetternefl‘es {hould n2ver be f0 kind as to communicate the lealt {crap of their prudence, their knowledge, or their confideration, to their ralh, ignorant, and inconti- derate reprefentatives P-Wifdom. in the mind Is not like money in the purfe, dimmifhed by, communication to others : They might have lighted u our farthing candles for us, Without leffening the blaze of their own fl.:mbeaux. . But they fut; feted our reprefentatives to go on in the dark til the fatal deed was done; and the petition fent to Contcflfor a Royal Government. 447 In the conflitution of our govern ment and in that of one more, there {till rem ains a particular thing that none of the other Ame rican governments have ; to wit, the appointme nt ofa Governor by the Proprz'etorr, inftead of an appointment by the Cro wn-This particular in government has been found inconvenient; attended with conten- tions and confufions wherever it exif'red ; and has therefore been gradually taken away fro m colo after colony, and every where greatly to the n fatif- faé‘tion and happinefs of the people-Ou r wife firft Proprietor and Founder was fully fenfi ble of this 3 and being defirous of leaving his people happy, and preventing the mifchiefs that he forefaw muft in time arife from that circumfian if ce it was continued ; he determined to take it awa y, if poflible, during his own lifetime. They ac- if it fucceeds, ‘ our glorious plan of public liberty cordingly entered into a contract for the tale of the proprietary right ofgovernment to the crown ; and actually received a turn in part of the confideration. As he found himfelf likely to die before ‘ and charter of privileges IS to be battered away, and we are to be made flaves for ever !. Cruel par- nefs of his people) could be completed; he care- the King, praying him to tahe the government of this province into his immediate care: Whereby, that contract (and with it, his plan for the happi- fimony! to refufe the charity of a little under; fully made it a part of his 121?: will and teflament ,- fianding; when God had given you to much, an devifing the right of the government to two noble the Aflembly begged it as an alms ! 0 that you lords, in truft, that they {hould releafe it to the had but for once remembered and obferved the crown.---Unfortunately for us, this has never yet been done. And this is merely what the affembly counfel of that wife poet Pope, where he fays, " Be Niggards of Advice on no pretence: now defire to have done.-Surely he that formed " For the worft Avarice is that of >Senfe. our eonf'citution, mutt have underflood it. If he had imagined that all our privileges depended on. In the proprietary governments will any one fuppgf: 3 l a w 3‘ 1"" "HIM."IlllWlllllww m .u.-- - .....--..‘ |
