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Show ......_..t..‘gn_- ..,-. . I. .. .,... .. err-a" __-_-.__..._._._....- ~ .. . _ .. - t 1,75 ) " Falfe friends and open enemies " now became the terror of the country, * while new foes; brmight new charges to render it obnoxrous. (f). " The great men and nt'I/I'Z'L'J if [he (.‘ozmz‘ry, made ‘- their complaints alto to the .ktng." I .1 he confequences were t‘ueh as might be enpeeted. " Four perfons were tent over h‘oxn Lngland, " one of them the known and prg‘ifled enemy 0f the " country, with fuch extraordinary powers, (that " our anceitors with grief complain) they Were t0 " be fitbfefied to the arbitrary power of ‘flrngerr " proceci‘ling not by any ettahliflied law, but their " own (lilci‘etion. § How afionithingly uniform, how cruelly confiilent has been the conduct of Britain from that day to the pretent ? Amid all thefe fevere trials , the inhabitants of New-England, conducted with a virtue and piety worthy remembrance [and imitation. " They zipH! Hill " pealed to GOD, they came not into this wil- Although "this is certain, that 'as the Colony " Was at lirtt fettletl, to it was preferve d from ruin _" without any charge to the mother country" ; ‘" yet "in the height of the diltrels of war, " and whillt the authoritv of the Colony was " contending with the natives for the potTeflL " on of the foil ; complaints were mak ing in Eng" land which ttruck at the poxvers of: govern- " ment." Jr With what ferocity have Emerieans ecu purl‘ueil from the earlielt times? Tha t Ilemon of malevolence, which went forth at the. beginning, {till fpirits up our advertlti‘ies and perfecutes the country with unabated malice. " Randolph, who, the people of New Eng land " faid, went up and down feeking to devour _them,";[ was the next active emifiu'y again tt the province. " He was incellimt and 0pm in ende avour- " ing the alteration of the conttitution. " § In his open enmity, he appears far letIs' odious than thole who have been equa lly inimical and equally indefittigable to the film " clcrnelh 1‘0 feet great thing; for themfelves, but for " the take of a poor and quiet life " they tettitied to their Sovereign that " t/Jeir li/Jertier were puma/2', with more cowardice, diflimulation , and " dearer to [17612: than their fiver." H " Evil-minded hypocrify. " men continue (however) to miircprefent them", (a) and what is almofi inerediblc, " the diilrefles of " the Colony, during a war, which excited com- " paflion in tome, yet thefe Very dittreflcs were " improved by others to render the Colony more " obnoxious/C ( b ) K " lb. 313. See alto in confirmation ofthe above: fame hill. 93.0» [14 T lb. 2 vol. 130. 20.1. 310, 311.. " The dominion of the crown over this country before the arrival of our predecdiors was meerly ideal. Their removal hither realized that dominion, and has made the country va- luthle both to the Crown and Nation, uni/I011! any cat} )7 cit/Mr 9f r/zymfrun that time to Mix. Although 1': Hutch. hilt. p.22c. ‘ 'I‘ ll). 224,; X Appen. Hutch : hiil. No. 1;. Another native of New-Englan'l, as (we have feenahout) the year 1705, wrote to England, that " this country, would never " be worth living in for Lawyers, and Gentl emen, umil tlze " CHARTER may t) lluth. hilt. 231. mic?) auury." ll lb. 252.3. (a ) See funehifl. "2,3. (fl) Sin: hi‘t. pi. Art) 1575.. Appen.N016. p. 542.. EVEN IN 'rH 1-: mosr Dlsrttessrzi) s'rA H: afour Pralmflorr, when they cxperfid 10 [7e deflrayqd. by age/lard! canfin‘rauy .1er incur/I‘m of. I/lz.' Ina/m; native; THEY HAD N0 AssistAnce FROM TH r: M. The anfwer ofthe Cnmcil of the Province to Governor Hutchinfon's Speec h 25th of "id". 177, I Hutch: hilt. p. 319. § lb. 335,0 |