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Show [17] [:6] When a Community, great or fmall, think their Rights and Privileges infringed, they will exprefs their Uneafinefs in a Variety of Ways : fome of With regard to the prefentdifordered State of th'e,Government, it can haveno Reference to Tumults or Riots : frOm which this Government is as free as any other whatever. If your Excellency meant only that the PrOVincc is dill contented,and in a State of Uneafinefs, we lho'uld intirely agree with you ; but you will permit us to fay we are not lb well agreed in theCaufe of it. which may be highly improper, and criminal. So far as any ofan attrocious Nature have taken Place, we would exprefs our Abhorrence of them : and as we have always done hitherto, we {hall continue to do, every Thing in ourPower to dill courage and {upprefs them. But it is in vain to hope that this can be done effectually (0 long as The Uneafinefswhich was a general one throughout the Colonies, began when you inform us the the Caufe of the Uneafinefis, which occafioned them, exifis. Authority oI'Parliament was firfl called in (looftion, viz. about ("even or eight Years ago. Your" mentioning that particular Time might have fug- gttfied to your Excellency the true Caufe of the Your Excellency will perceive that the Caul'e you aflign is by us fuppofed to be an Efi‘eéi: deri- Origin and Continuance of that UflCafianSi Ved from the original Caufe abovcmentoned : the Removal of which will remove its Effects. At that Time the Stamp-Act, then lately made, began to operate :' Which with fome proceeding To obtain this Removal, we agree with you in and: fucceeding Acts of Parliament, fuhjeé'ting the Colonies to Taxes without their Confent, was the the Method pointed out in your Speech, where you lay, "the Manner of obtaining Redrefs muff be by Repreféntarions and Endeavours in {uch original Caufe of all the Uneafinefs that has hapo pened fince ; and has occafioned alfo an Enquiry i'tlQ the Nature and Extent of the Authority by which they'weremade. Ways and Forms as the Confiitution allows, in The late Town-Meet- ings in feveral Towns are Inflances of both. There are mentioned by your Excellency in Proof ofa diforde-red State : But tho' Wedo not approve forne of their Refolves, we think they had a clear Right to inflrufl their Reprefcntarives on any Sub- left they apprehended to be of fitfhcient lmpor-' tance to require it: which neceilarily implies a prevrous Confideration of, and Exprtflion oftheir Minds on, that Subjefi : however miflalteu they order to make any Matters alledged to be Grie- vances appear to be really fuch." This Method has been purfued repeatedly. Petitions to Parliament have gone from the Colonies, and from this Colony in particular ; but without Succel‘s. Some of them, in a former Miniflry. were previ- oufly fhewn to the Minifler, who (as we have been informed) advifed the Agents to pollpone prefenting them to the Hattie of Commons 'till the firfi reading of the. Billilthey ;re,ferfd to : when being preIEntecl', a, turlei‘of the H‘dui‘e again"; may be concerning it. ' receiving Petitionsém" Money Bills was urg'edf‘cr V When i l": ' ‘K‘itfi. |