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Show 28 A CURE forthe SPLEEN. A CUREfortheSPLEEN. 29 contempt, at {o grofs animpofition upon their underf'tandings, In lhort, every {tep they have taken has been ju-l': thereverfe him take all their teeth out of their heads. of \vhatit ought to have been, and in my opinion, they have, remov'd us infinitely farther from peace and happinel‘s, than. we fhould have been, had a Congrats never been thought on. tale about grievarues, and they believe it more ill mly than they will thofc many parts of holy writnhich enjoin lubm lllon to rulers, asa chril'tizin duty. LC: on» of their demngogues but hint, that tome hundreds of {yet it w; t." the ground property Brim. To my underllanding, it appears in a. Clear light, that all our public menfurcs in congrelles, town-meetings, body meetings, and delegate-meetings, have tended, inflead of mending matters, tomake bad, worle; they have all parizook of one and the fame evil {piritg government, without which mankind cannot live in fociety‘, has been overturned and. trampled (in-migillmres infiilted, fil‘fljll‘d and driven From their liabitationsé-the courts ofjult‘ce violently flint up--indiViduals perfecuted and bu fi-‘etted, and their property dellroy- Tell them thro' the channel of A lidmions IlCW‘S»,‘L11"'I', the mall improbable in the province-«who were bor., hr: C'W'Vvillill families are here ---whole t‘ltates are here, whrfe ciantt‘txrs in public and pri» Vate life, they have long know;., proved and adored, are all at once betomernemies to 'hcir country, :0 their ll ieru's, to their neighbours, to their f.=;l)llll'£3, to themtencs, and to God, and they inflamly fall upon them with a lavage barbarity, which the uncivilized, unchriflian i7cd Indians neverexcrcifed towards the invadrrs of their peacefulretreats. Tell them the Parlia- ment of Great-Britain may be made to tremble at the threatsof ed, merely for exercifing the right ofprivate judgment-high tr‘eafon and rebellion llalk through the lzmd at noon day-and civil waris Openly talked of, with a blind, enthufiallic zeal, troops of that potent kingdom, vsill Hy heforean undlfciplined equal to that which in former dztvs, Crowded friend White- multitudeol‘Ncw ring-land {quirre -huntcrs,andthey \nlllwal- field's lectures. But if {urh Invalures procure a redrefs of grievances, as the cant phrale is, it mull be becaufc the nae ture of things is changed, and the fame caules produce offcfis contrary to thole they have ever before produced. Bump. Fiddle Paddle, 'tis all Ruth and nonl‘enle; redrel‘s of low it without a hiccough; and each hero in his chimney cor~ grievances, is but, the decoy let up to catch the ignorant and port towns lhould be all delhoycd, it would do us no hurt; that if they beat their plough {hares into wal‘dS, an d their crowm barsintogumbarrels, and go all to training, neverthelefs, their unwary. The leaders aim at an independency on Great-Brimin, in order to become themlizlves the tyrants of the colo- nies: And, if God in judgment for onringratitude and folly, fliould give us up to our own heart's delire, we lhould loon'l‘ee High and Mighsy States, like thol‘e otil'lollaud, or {warms of Petty Princes, like thofe of Germany, whole little fingers would be thicker than the loius of King, Lords and Commons; who: would trample on the liberties, iind tread on the necks ofthis infatuated people: would chailile them with fcorpions, and their portion would be, the curfe of Ham, to become the let, rant ofl‘ervants; a long {cone of war and bloodlhed would an American Corgrefs, and they believe it ; tell them thevetcran ner,killshis dozen, anticrowsvié‘torioust tell them all commu» nication is cut oil‘ between Bollon and the country, and down it goes, though theygo thereevery day to market, and return without molel‘tation; tell them, though our trade and our {ea- lands, without tilling, will produce {nihcicntfor themftlves and. all the inhabitants of the lea-port towns, and they believe it mall ferioully; tell them a duty of a three pence upon tea, is: more :1 grievance than :1 duty of a lhilling,‘ and they believe it; tell them what would be high tieafon in England, is no crimeat all in America, and on they go, blindfol d, to the (‘pffl commillion of it, with the lame dctotion that they go to meet. ing, to hear the lame comfortable doctrine preached :»-lr; Short? there is no abfurdity too great for their {w allows-or too ham defpoil and depopulate this fertile, happy country, 'till {time more fortunate villain would rife {uperior to his comrades, and {or their Itomzichs, ifit does but come from the right books, hecomc‘alone the lordlv tyrant over this now flee people. It they practice: How filly has been their behavniur ad over the province; two thoulhnd allzinblt-d at Great-Barrington, as many more at Springfield; three thoufand at \Norceller, and tour thoullnd at Cambridge ; befides other formidable.bodies Eafiward and Southward ; all with halters about their necks ; and for uhat E \Vhy truly, to prevent four unarmed is enough to makc'a wile man and to ice howtamely thecom~ mon people {utter themfelves to be fooled, firll out of their lbnfes, and then out oftheir liberty, property and lives. Let. amounrebftnk, who has llzd fromjul‘tice for blalpheniy, treafon Eli'ld through the proper channel. And as they believe, {0 and rebellion in another province, let himtelf up here for a pritriot, forfooth, and} they will [hand gaping like idiots, and let llldgm From holding a provmcial,conflitutional, charter corAll. hnu of |