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Show to exercife the fame of himfelfi and not from another People, in whole Legiflativc they have exprele Comm'flion immediately and perfonally received frornGod,is no better tbanmereTyrmz/ry. Laws therefore they are no: which public/c upmini/ion hath not made fo, for "Laws human of what Kind {never are available by Conlent." " Since Men naturally have no full and pet-feet no Voice or Intereft. They are indeed laid to ,havea Conll-itution and a Legiflativc of their own, but your Excellency has explained it into a mere Phantom; limitted, controuled, {it er- ccded and nullified at the Will of another. Is this the Conflitution which fo charmed our An~ Power to command whole politiclt Multitudes ceflors, that as your Excellency has informed us, of Men, therefore, utterly without our Conlent we Could in {itch Sort be at no Man'sCommand- they kept a Day of lblemn Titanklgiving to Almighty God when they received it? And were ment living. And to be commanded we do not they Men of fo little Difce‘rnment, {uchChildren conlent, when thzit Society whereof‘we he aPnrt, hath at any Time before confented." We think your Excellency has not proved, either that the in Underflanding, as to pleafe themfclves with Colony is a Part of the politick Society of England, or that it has ever conlented that the Parliament of'England orGreat Britain {hould make Laws binding upon us in all Cafes whatever, whether made exprefly to refer to us or not. \Vc cannot help before we conclude,exprt fling our great Concern, that your Excellency has thus repeatedly, in a Manner inlilled upon our free Sentiments on Matters of lb delicate a Nature, and weighty Importance. The (Luellion appears to us to be no other, than Whether we are the Subi t'fts of ablolute unlitnitted Power, or of‘ :~. lite (iovernment formed on the Principles ol'tltc Englilh Conllitution. If your Excellen» cy's Doctrine be tt'ue,the People of this PI'O\ inCc' hold their Lands of the Crown and People of England, and their Lives, Liberties and l'ropcrties are at their Dilpoliil; and that even lr‘; Compof‘t and their own Cottlent. They are inh- jcfi to the King as the Head «Kit-rim ,PJ/wn'i 0F utiulllt‘fil‘ the Imagination that they were blcl'led with the fame Rights and Liberties which natural born Subjects in England enjoy-ed, when at the lame Time they had fully confcntcd to be ruled and ordered by a Legiflative a Thoufand Leagues diflant from them, which cannot be fuppoled to be {ufficiently acquainted with their Circumfianres, if concegncd for their Interefl, and in WbJCb they cannot be in any Settle reprefented. |
