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Show Part II.- Acrs REL/nine £56 Scé‘t. VIII. ilaves, " {linking their uncombed locks, and flamgwing their wooden {hoes *. TO THE Commas. 193 like thcfe, on fuch a fuhjcé‘t as this, muft In this, as in the fOrmer cafe, the phrenzy, " like fome epidEmieal difeafe,‘ " has run through the whole country :"-- now, as well as then, " the magiflrates' furely have its weight with the friends of " and miniflers, whofe prudence ought to " have been employed in healing this di" (temper, and alfuaging its fury, throw " in new comhufiible matter T." tors of human happinefs, confidered our colonies in America as fubjcét in all The truth, however is, that the commencement of the fears and alarms Which the Americans are now fuppofed to‘ have 'felt upon the pafiing of this aét was fubiequenti ; for though they remoné (hated, *5 See Farmer's Letters, p. 24. 4‘ See Account of European Settlements in America, part vii. c. 4,. Hutchinfon's Hiflory of Mallachulét's Bay, vol. ii. p. )5, 8c feq. I This 361 pulled in April, 1764., the llamp aét in March I 765. It is only from the time ofthe Americans receiving account of the pafiing of the {lamp a6}, that a I'rrenuous American dates " the great " murmurings and difeontents that arofe‘ among them." freedom. Let it not be forgotten then, that thefe architec‘ls of virtue, thefe re- florers of glory and ofwifdom, thefe crea- t/rz'ngr to the fupreine power of England ; treated them as fubjefis; regulated their internal rights; laid on them internal -Illll\|l\' taxes. ' ‘1 L...._. U |