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Show [‘26, ]t [27] could not intend fuch Laws, not only on account and therefore that the Subjeéls {'o removing would of their Inconliflency with the Grant, but beeaufe not become Aliens, but would, borh without and their Acceptance ofa Charter. liibjt-éling them to within the Colony retain the Liberties and 1mmunities of free and natural Subjefls." fuch Laws, would be voluntary Slavery. Your Excellenny next obf'crves, " that it can- not be contended that by the Liberticsof free and natural Subjeé‘ts is to be underflood an Exemption from A613 of Parliament, becaufc not repreflntcd there. feeing it is provided by the fame Charter, th I fueh Afls {hall be in Force."-----~-Ifthc 0‘ - fervations we have made above, and ourReafoning The Dominion of"- the Crown over this Country before the Arrival of our Predeccfl'ors was mcerly ideal. Their Removal hither realized that Dominion, and has made the Country valu- able both to the Crown and Nation, .without any Coll to either of them from that Time to this. Even in the molt diflrefl'ed State of our Predeo on them be‘lufl, it will appear that no fuch Pro.vifion is made in the Charter, and therefore that the Deduftions and lnferences derived from the Suppofition of fuch Provifion, are not well founded. And with Refpec‘i to Reprefentation in Parliament, as it is one of the ell‘ential Liberties of cefl'ors, when they expeé‘ted to be deflroyed bya general Confpiracy and Incurfion of the Indian free and natural Subjcfts, and properly makes lated by militaryPower,or explained away by nice thofe who enjoy it liable to Parliamentary A615, Inference: and Dillinftions, ought in Jullice, and with a generous Opennels and Freedom, to be f0 inReference to the Inhabitants ofthisProvincc, who are intitled to all the Liberties of fuch Sub- Natives,they had no Afliflance from them. This Grant then of Liberties, which is the only Con- fideration they received from the Crown for [0 valuablean Acquilition to it, infiead of being vio- acknowledged by every Minil‘ter of the Crown, jcéls, the Impoflibility of their being duely re- and preferved flicred from every Speeies of Vio- prefented inParliament, does clearly exempt them from all liich A613 at leall, as have been or {hall lation. benmade by Parliament to Tax them: Reprelcn- " If the Plantation be Part of the Dominion: ration and Taxation being in our Opinion confli~ of the Crown this Claufe in the Charter (granting Liberties and Immunities) does not, your Ex- tutionally infeperable. cellency obferves, confer or ret't-rve any Lil‘fil‘llfl? " This Grant ofLiberties and Immunities,yout Excellency inlbrms us, is nothing more than a Declaration and Aliiirance on the Part of tilt? Crown, that the Place to which our Prcdecellbrfi were about to remove. was and would be confi- dered as Part of the Dominions of the Crown, and but what would have been enjoyed without it ; and what the Inhabitants ol‘ever‘y oz'her Colony do ettjuy, where they are without a Charter."---- Although the Colonies coulidcre.l as Part of the Dominions of the Crown are intitletl to equal Liberties, the Inhabitants ol‘ this Colony think it 3 D2 |
