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Show 272 ACTS RELATING Part II. " mous teltiniony of the governors and " Other officers of the crown in America, " that though by a molt unhappy delay " and negleét to provide for the due exe" cution of the law, and arming the go" vernment there with proper orders and " powers, thefe difiurbances had been " continued and encreafed, yet they might . " have new; erg/fly quieted before they at" taincd to any dangerous height." It appears farther from a letter to Mr. fecretary Conway, laid before the houfe, and printed in the parliamentary debates*, " that when the Bolton mob, raifed firf'r by " the infiigation of the principal inhabi" tants, allured by plunder, rofe {hortly " after of their own accord; people then " began to be terrified at the fpirit they " had raifed: that each individual feared " he might be the next vifiixn to their '5 :"tpacity; that the fame fears fpread '-‘ :1 .uugh the other provinces; and that r 508:. XI. TO THE COLONIES. 273 " as much pains were t/mz taken to pre- . " vent the infurreétions of the people as " firfore to excite them." Upon this authority furely one may be allowed to believe that the ditturbances caufed by the Ramp a& were not of fo dangerous :1 nature as the difiurbances which have happened fince the repeal of the fiamp act. Nor can I-no, though I {hould have the misfortune to be ranked with Dr. Tucker, among " the vermin of court re" porters*" Icannot--help thinking " that " the objections made llt'i'Y‘, both in and " out of parliament, to the flaznp aé‘t at "the time of its paHing," whatever effeé‘t they might be intended to have, had in the event that of " encouraging the " Americans to their refiftance."-~l have not accefs to " all the papers which load- " ed the table of the houfe." I did not hear " the vafi crowd of verbal witnelles "1;, a, p. 91. 92- '* Mr. Burke's Speech, p. 71. T |
