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Show 5-19» ' -m «it"«x‘n. W L.~;_~J;fiv' <20)- x( ']'_3ut you jullly fuppofe, " We are h ‘ 1. plain original comfrzzél iii-titled to a coniniu: :iéiyicofnlgiggllzfiep, iylthfur .brethrcn that - i O i , eVuy ClVll and relirrin ous relpetl, p. 19. lVIof't true. Anal :ill you apporntetl your New Soyereirrns 011 enjoyed all thole privileges. .lnLchetl lion hatl no vote for members of Parliament neither have I, becaule I- lia-ve- no freeh olii in England. Yet the'beinrr taxed hv tl i Parliament is no infringemerijt either oli' 10 ClVll or religious liberty, my I; u I y H" ‘37 Y If?!" r. e , I") I )()VV(L()HC'11 ( l: 521 ) is exafitec‘l, but according to the original confiitution both of England, and her Colo- nies. Your rights are no more violated than mine, when we are both taxt by the fupreme power: and your charters are no more mutilated by this, than is the charter of the city of London. of being ," made Vainly . , you complain. . ,, do Am I, or two millions of hnglilliflaves. men made flares becaufe We are taxedwith» ' out our oxvn ,confent? You ‘may fiill " rejoice in the common rights of freemen." I rejoice in all-the rights of my ancefiors. Sove . The reio n zon undhav ‘ If no Sovereig ' n. forI every . ‘ ' p [tr reevcnhas aright to tax . ‘ fuhye his, , é‘ts . : that; is_, " to gran ' t them " proI i Eeéty, with or watbout t/Jrz'r couém‘." Our 0th ("6153? has a right to tax me, and all er ‘nghihmcn, whether we have vote for Parliament-men or no. 8* a I"; y ‘ q. 0 ullc ll Which I enjoy, is common to Engliflimen and Americans. But {hell we "‘ furrender any part of the privileges which we enjoy, hy the .520"; terms of our colonization P " that is, or our requires charter? ‘By no means : and none d any it of you. None defires to with-hol or: thing Jthat is granted by the cxpnj} M27225 t s. . y . ltUUOnill Chcléthn h, and mutilat ed charters, . - "'9 , l r V f "Cliltcc- 11511"; A ~ - ' p. 24, Nothing IS * That is , m connexron wit hthe Lords and Commons .. And every right our charters. 'But remember '5 One of your fir it Chart . ers; that Of lVlaflhchul‘ettspt Bay, lays in mp "ta/i Irrmi‘, you are exem72m for/£ , from paying taxes‘ to t he King at after . thofe years: plainly implying, th other like them {even years you. are to pay charter, 13?: fubjeéts. And remember'your trr'm59 that of Pennlylvanin, rays, in cxfr‘r‘rjs you are liable to taxation. But |