The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Boston [Mass.]) 1770-1772, 1771-05-23

in danger of having the brat returned to your
own door, and fitting down with the lnfapy o.
being ilanderer yourlelf. Among the many
ADAPTATIONS of your execrable party, it has moi
been the leaf infuferable, that you have Cali
Illuminated, tradused, blackguarded, and VIII
fed, without rhyme, reaion or exceptions
men whole ihoes you are not worthy to bear
and Gill maintain the ralcally port OF pre-
tending them below your notice. 1t is PITY
luch b0aoara6le gentlemen ihould habItualIl
degrade themfelves below common PorteFs
who fcorn to affirm lie upon their honour
while the mott palpable faliehoodS at
court currency in your genteelett publications
You may call for fome inftances In you
next if you chule it.
But to the main point, what are his faults
Say you and aniwer, he is an enemy TO IL
beIty. This Jab Eltntio feems takeu fo
granted. And luppoiing it true, would no
the man leem an ldeot, VINO lhould endea
YOUR to fwell the account with any th'hG
more or further. Mr.. Gordon, as quote
in this paper, tells US, one may DEFY any ,n'"s
out of hell, or even in it, OF al that ale III Il
to do more mifchefon earth tran tyranIs, lie
enemies to liberty do. believe SIr' Mf
Gordon is perfectly right; and ihouId tnet'
be found man, who confeiiedy leiuie
to comply with the voice and Incllnauon 0
The people :" and endeavours to render MN
ef and the whole machinery of the execn
tive government entirely independent uPoI
them, and intereRed agaiuit them, when am
queRion comes before them, wherein the TOOL
ofthc court are concerned againf the people
and thus to effablifh regular (yifem OF ROB
berry and opprefIion among them; lay'
fuch a man there is, NAV he NOT pats tor "
rant let the charge feem as odlouS as 1t VIII
Your pitiful lalvo for his wanton and Oh
itinate breach of the contribution of this pro
vince is truly ridiculous as well as falacIous
Did ever man before the prefent exlgenc..
put invention to the torture, conceive OF fuel
a bubble as to render the plain words OF al
ACT mere matter of form, becauie fome par
of the form being nec,llarily variable, TN
letters A. B. were fubffituted for the names
which thank heaven are variable every year
Had William the third, been as permanently
King of Great Britain, aa Bottom is capita
of this province, would defy, the logic ever
of the learned ImbavISnt to demonitrate, tina
the form in that cafe ought to be altered
MutatiS mzfandis is the furthet any ratlona
man would with to alter the laws, wheT
neither angels nor devils can thew any lncon
veniences in them. But this ftriefure fay th'
courtlers is inconvenient, for had not the 60
vernon an indefinite power to harrais The
other branches of The Legislature, how coulC
he punilh them fortheir impudence in writing
circular letters, and their obltinacy in not re;
fcinding, that is, in not unvoting the vote o
a former houfe, and not unwriting the letters
which year before had been fent through
the continent? How infuPportable hard.
ihip is it for men of fenie to be vexed witt
the caprice of fuch ignorant and iIl-naturec
monkies, as will command imponioilities o
the mott ridiculous caR, and perlecute tt
eternity the perfons, who forming to lhar'
their infamy, rcfute compliance with thei
aollrd beheas /?
The law Sir, on which the Governor ha
'hus ultimately tramped is as clear and de
terminate, that they lhall be fummoned tt
meet in Bottom, as to meet in May; and
hlnk May of the two more liable to excep.
.Ionihan Bottom the one being rotary, anc
the other, as fixed as the globe; of which il
forms 70 respectable part. Common law
yers FAY, nbi sadem Ell ratio eOdsm jus; court
fYc phants. tools. and tYrants fay. mutablt