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Show 462 PREFACE to Mr. Galloway'r Speech. their conflituents would not permit them to trufl: in the hands of any proprietary governor ?-You know the points, Gentlemen: They have been made public. Would you have had your reprefentatives give up thofe points ? Doyou intend to give them up, when at the next election you are made allemblymen P If f0, tell it us honeltly beforehand ; that we may know what we are to ex- pect when we are about to choofe you i' I come now to the lat): claufe of your petition, where, with the fame wonderful lagacity with which you in another cafe difcovered the excellency of a fpeech you never heard, you undertake to e/oarazfi‘ergye a petition [from the Allembly] you own you never finer-and venture to aflh‘re hlS Majelty, that it is ‘ exceeding grievous in its na‘ ture; that it by no means contains a proper re‘ prefentation of the {late of this province,- and ‘ is repugnant to the general (mile of his numerous ‘* and loyal fubjeéts in it.' Are then hlS Mayelty's ‘ numerous and loyal fubjeéts' in this provmce all as great wizards as yourfelves; and capable of knowing, without feeing it, that a petition. is re- [P.P.] Ofapetitz'oo againfi- o royotGo'uerrzme nt. 46 3 :‘ difregard" the petition of your reprefenta tives 1n afl'embly ; accompanied by other petitions figned .by thoufands of your fellow-fubjeéts , as loyal, if not as wife and as good as yourfelv esl Would you wilh to fee your great and amiable prince aét a part that could not become a Dey of Algiers? Do you, who are Americans, pray for a precedent of fuch contempt in the treatment of anAmerican allemblyl Such " total difregard" of their humble applications to the throne P-Surely your wifdoms here have overfhot yourfelves.--But as wifdom fliews itfelf not only in doing what is right, but in confefling and amendzhg what is wrong, I recommend the latter particularly to your prefent attention; being perfuaded of this confequence ; that though you have been mad enough to fign fuch a petition, you never will be fools enough to prefent it. There is one thing mentioned in the preface, which I find I omitted to take notice of as I came pugnant to their general fenfe P-But the incon- along, [viz.] the refigfa/ of tbe 501%) to enter Mr. fifience of your petition, Gentlemen, is not 1:0 Dt'céiryon': pretty? on their minutes : This is men- much to be wondered at ;--The prayer of it isfir/l tioned in fuch a manner there and in the newspapers, as to infinuate a charge of fome partiality more extraordinary, " We therefore molt hum- " bly pray, that your Majef'ty would be gracroufly and injul'cice in the afTembly.-- But the red/om "‘ pleafed 10/2011] to dgfl'egard the {aid petition of the were merely thefe; that though protelting may ‘~‘ 'alfembly." 'Whatl without enquiry! without examination! without a hearing of what the afleinbly might fay-in fu-pport of it! " wholly I " difregard‘ be a practice with the Lords of parliament, there is no inflance of it in the houfe of commons, whole proceedings are the model followed by the afl'emblies of America 5 That there is no precedent of it on our votes, from the beginning of our pre3 fent "I".lllrl'll‘llllllll‘lmm |
