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Show t 56‘ l [57] i Thus we have endeavomed- to {hem-thoSon‘fo all the People of thisi Colony under both Chara and mutually fupport and protcél caeh,other ? tors; and if therefhaVe. been in any late Inllances a-Sub'million to Aéls of Parliament, it has been in our Opinion, rather from Inmnfideration or a Reluctance at the Idea of" Contending with the Notwithllanding all the Terrors which your Excellency has pictured to u» as the Affects of‘a to" tal Independence, there is more Rcal'on to dread the Conltqucnccs of abfolitte uncontrouled Supreme Power, whether ofa Nation or a Monarch, Parent State, than from :t Conviction or AcknnWo than thofc ofa total Independence. ledgement of" the‘Supreme Legillotive Authority a Misfortune -" to know by Experience, the Dif- of Parliament. ' It would be. ference between the Liberties of'an Englifh Colonill and theft: oftheSpanifh, French and Dutch ; Your Excllency tells us, "you knowol no And fince the Britilh Parliament has pachd an Line that can be drawn between the ShpremeAtuthority of Parliament :ind' the total Independence oFthe' Colonies." If there be no luch Line, the Aft which is executed even with Rigonr, though Confequenceis, eitherthar the Colonies are the Vafihls of the Parliament, or, um they are to; not voluntarily {ubmitted to, for railing :1 Rover- nue.and appropriating the fame without the Confent of the People who pay it, and have claimed a Power making, liich Laws as they plenre to or- tally Independent. As it'cannot‘ be {‘uppoled to have been the Intention; of the Parties in the Compact, that we fhould be reduced [08 State of Voflétllage,the Conclufion is; that it was 'theirSen let .der and govern us, your Excellency will excufe ' that we were thus Independent. " It is impolii‘ble, your Excellency lays, that there {hould duccd to a work Situation than that of the Colo- us in alking, whether you do not think we alreay dy experience too much of Inch :1 Diflderence, and have not Reafon to fear we {hall foon be re~ nies of France, Spain or Holland 3 be two independent Legillatures in one and the fm'é‘State." May we not then Further conclude. IF your Excellency expeé‘ts to have the Line that it‘was their-Settle that the Colonies were by their Charters made difiinél States from the M0‘il'lCd' Country? Your Excellency adds, " For of Dillinélion between the Supreme Authority of Parliament, and the total Independence of the " although there may be but one Head. the King, yet the two Legi'llative Bodies will make Colonies drawn by us, we would fay it would be an arduous Undertaking ; and of very great lin- two Governments as diliinE‘t as the Kingdoms of 'England and Scotland before theUnion." VCTY p~rtance to all theother Colonies -: And there- fore, could we conceive of llicl] a Line, we {hould true, may it pleafe your Excellency ; and if t‘ey be unwilling to prOlec it, without their Confirm mtcrfere not with each other, what hinders but in Congo: ls; that .being united in one Head and common So- veretgu,they may live happily in thatConneétione.i ' an H |
