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Show [too] [:01] - common fovereign, may have the irrevocable enjovment of every privilege that is {hort of a total feparationiof in- " ciprocal deputation of an agent or agents from the diil " ferent Rates, who {hall have the privilege of a feat and " voice in the parliament of Great-Britain, or if fent " from Britain, in that cafe to have a feat and voice in {I'll/Illll' H Wt in - 6 (K ‘C teref'ts, or conhfient with that union of force on which the fafety of our common religion and liberty depends." " the allemblies of the different Rates, to which they may The firfl: part of this is ridiculous, fince all the flares have " be deputed refpec'rively, in order to attend to the feveral taken fome forms of government, the legiflatures of which " interefts of thofe by whom they are deputed." Or, in other words, to perpetuate our flavery, by taking from us, on the one hand, the objection againfi' their tyrannous acts, that we were not reprefented in the legiflature which palfed them, though in faét fuch reprefentation would be. merely iilufory and ineffectual. And on the other, by fending mi- are obeyed,and confequently their power el'tablifhed already; the object therefore, taking it in comparifon with what goes before, is to overturn the free legiflatures already el'tablifhed, and in their (lead to inftitute the bafe and flavifh mixture contained in the third offer. The fecond part ferves to {how more clearly (if poflible) the infidious na-- nil'terial agents, artful, plaufible and wicked, to influence ture of their commifhon; for from this it appears, that the debatts of our legiflatures, and give a voice among the immediate reprefentatives of the people on matters even of the molt internal nature. No greater infult was ever offered to the common fenfe of mankind. Had the propofal, particularly the latter part of it, been made befOre the commencement of the contel't, it was fuflicient in itfelf to have roufed us to arms. If accepted and executed, in all the ftates it mutt have been pernicious, but in thofe called royal governments, would have flood thus: A legiflature confif'ting of three branches, 10:. A governor appointed by the king during pleafure. 2dly. A council appointed by the king during pleafure. 3dly'. An alfembly partly appointed by the king and partly by the people, but all holding their feats during the king's pleafure---The laws paifed by this legiflature to be of no validity without the king's confent---A reprefentative to be appointed by this legiflature, to fit in a houfe of commons, confifting of more than five hundred members, and thereby to validate any law, which they might pafs 'to bind the people of that flare. If this be compared with " the freedom they prefer to extend to trade," fome faint idea may be formed of the meditated fyflem. the objeét of revenue is by no means given up, nor the delign of keeping a military force in America relinquifhed. The third part is nugatory, for having before marked out THE lait offer is, "to eflablifh the power of the re" fpeétive legiflatures in each particular fiate, to fettle its " revenue, its civil and military eflablifhment, and to " exercife a perfect freedom of legiflation and internal go" vernment, fo that the Britifh flares throughout North- " America, acting with us in peace and war under one " common the kind of legillature to be eflablilhed, even the unre- firained acts of it would not prove the freedom of the people, but rather their flavery, and yet it is clear that however free they might be to pafs laws, there would have been a fuperior power in legal capacity to repeal them. From all this however they deduce, as a confequence, that fliould we accede to their propofitions, we flmt/d lame t/Je irrevocable enjoyment (f every privilege i/mt i5 flaart of a fatal fiparatim of interzflr, or ton/flew wit/9 that union effort-e, 85c. But this concluhon by no means follows from the premifes; on the contrary it is evident, that we fhould enjoy no one privilege, and have the irrevocable enjoyment of no one thing, unlefs it be fuppofed that to repent is to enjoy. For the fake of this fophiftical fyfiem however we Were to covenant, that we would act with them in peace and in war. The confequence of which would have been, that we muft have contracted new debts, to promote their interefied views, before we had paid the fums expended for our own defence, and have laviihed the beft blood of America, to gratify the pride, pique, avarice, ambition, or revenge of a haughty defpot, deaf to the prayers of {upplicative millions, and dead to the feelings ofjuflice or hu- manity. One fact however they indirectly admit, that their fafety depends upon an union of force with us. The need.fary confequence is, that, notwithltanding their pretended fuperiority, they mult not only make peace with us, .but . IE |