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Show [P.P.] 4+8 PREFACE to r‘r'fr. Galloway's Spree/3. that he would himfclfhave meditated the change ; Cam‘sflfor a Royal Government. new modelled, and made exaétl that he would have taken fuel: effectual meafures the Britifh confiitution: They vibcgnlizirr::iial:t:g our dittinguifhing privileges as {0 many illegalities as he thought them, to bring it about fpcedily, whether he thould live or die? lv'Vill any of thofe who now extol him to highly, charge him at the liune time with the ballenell; of endeavouring thus todefraud his people of all the liberties and privileges he had promifed them, and by the molt folemn charters and grants allured to them, when 449 andabfurdities; who have folemnly declared in print, that though fuch privileges might be proper in the infancy of a colony to encourage its fettlement, they became unfit for it in its grown Rate, and ought to be taken away: They who by numberlefs falfhoods, propagated with infi- he engaged them to Mint him in the lettlemcnt of nite indufiry in the mother country, attempted to his province P Surely none can be lb incontil'tent l procure an act of parliament for the actual depriving a very great part of the people of their prwrleges: They too who have already deprived ----And yet this proprietary right of governing or appointing a governor has all ot'a fudden changed its nature; and the prelhrvation ot‘it become of to much importance to the weltire of the province; that the afieinbly's only petitioning to have their venerable founder's will executed, and the contract he entered into for the good of his people completed, is fl'ilcd, an ‘ attempt to Violate the contiitution for which our fathers planted a wildernefs; to barter away our glOrious plan of public liberty and charter privileges; at rilquing the Whole people of fome of their molt important rights, and are daily endeavouring to deprive them of the reft: Are thefe, become patriots and advocates for our conflitution P-Wonderful change! Aftonifhing convertion l-Will the Wolves then protect the (beep, if they can but perfuade them to give up their dogs 3 Yes 5 the aflembly would deftroy all their own rights, and thofe of the peo- of the whole conftitution; an ofiering up our whole charter rights; a wanton {porting with ‘ , ‘things fiered,' Ur. ple ; and the proprietary partizans are become the champions for liberty l-Let thofe who have faith now make ufe of it: For if it is rightly defined, the evidence of things not feen; certainly never Pleafant furely it is to hear-the proprietary par- was there more occafion for fuch evidence, the tizans, of all men, bawling for the conltitution; and a€e&ing a terrible concern for our liberties cafe being totally deftitute of all other.- ahd privileges. They, who have been thete twen- It has been long obferved, that men are with: ty years curling our COnftitution, declaring that it was no‘confiitution, 0r worfe'than none; and that things could never be Well with us tiil it was new - that party, angels or demons, jult as they happen to concur with or oppofe their meafures. And I mention it for the comfort of c/n'flmzm, that M In in in ~v LT WillillllllllilllllVlllWllW " "1--.- N |