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Show 1. """"‘""v‘.. .- .1- 30 ed, and of the toils1t' s p1efl-‘1Vatio11 d11ilV' fufiuined) THE PEOPLE, llay, are the only 12711111"12'fcnt indges of t/Jeir vitality/11W, and, the1e1o1e, are the only fuitable authority to determine touching the great end of their {ubjeclion and their lacrilices. This beneficence, do the fuhtle and ambitious make their firlt incroachments upon their ipecies. Watt/1 and nppo/Z) ought tl1ere1ore to be the motto of mankind. A nation in it's belt eftate-guardcd by good lawsf1aught with public virtue, and {tee} pofition leads us to two others, not impertinent on ed with martial courage-may reemble Achilles: this occafion, becaufe ofmuch importance to Amemericans :- but Achilles was wounded in the heel. The leall: point left unguarded, the foe enters :- latent evils are the molt da110'erous- for we often receive the b mortal wound, while we are flattered With lecurity. That the leg1ll11tive 110th of the commonVVealth ought to deliberate, (lttCllTllllC and make their de- elees in plans where the lefrillatolssmay eqfl/y £72er fromt/vcil aan olfen111nm the wants and exigences, the lentiments and VV111, the goodand happinefs of the people, and the people as cal11y know the delibe1ations, motive, de igns and conduct of their legiflatms, before their ftatutes and ordinances actual1y go forth and take effect :- That every member of the legillature ought himfelt to be fo fat lulneet111 his perlon and p10.- perty to the laws of the ftate, as to immediately The experience of all ages fhews that mankind are inattentive to the calamities ot‘ other-1, carelefs of admonition, and with difliculty routed to repel the molt injurious invalions. " [perceive " (faid the greeat patriot Cicero to his counnv " men) an inclination for tyranny in all (71.1111 " projects and executes." * Notwithltanding this friendly caution, not " till it was too late did the. " people find out, that no beginning, bawewr fine/V, _" are 1‘0 be nag/686d." f For that (Izefar, who at (M; and effectually feel eV e1 y milchiet and inconveni- attacked the commonwealth wit/J miner very {hon ence refulting from all and every ad; of legillation. open/1d In; baz‘z‘erze1.+--Encroachment: upon 111511511111 and property of the citizen me like the rollings of The fcience of man and fociety, being the molt e\tended1n it's natu1e, and the moltbi111poitant mighty waters over the breach of antient mounds;- flow and una‘ a1m1nsv at the beginning ; lapid and in it's confequences of any in the Circle of exudititerrible in the c11ri‘ent;a deluge and devaltatL on, on0qht to be an object of 1111ive1lal attention and fludy. would "his it made 10, the ri0l1ts of mankind not remain b111ied to1 ages, under fyf- tems of Civil and piicfily h1e111chy, 11m locial feli- ‘ on at the end-Behold the oak, which ltretcheth itfelf to the mountains, and ove1lha1_10VVs the Val, lies, was once an acorn in the bowels of the e111th.-' Slavery (my friends) which was yellerdav engimi City overwhel med l1V 111VVle1's d11111i1111io11. ' Under appearance; the moltVeuerzbt leand infiitutions the molt reVeied, underthe ianc'tity of religion, the dignity of. n(\Vc111111t11t. andthe {milesc,0? bencficencc, " Flut. Life of can". '1" lb. [LL § lb. |
