The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Boston [Mass.]) 1770-1772, 1771-08-29

reiident in that province, and null Snow Inc
whole matter, appeal 70 you, and ak you
the following queaIc7s, TO which | demand
a ferrous iulf foldtion, as goa you'd anfwer
II a, tia, tribunal where all diiinctlons are
lcvclled, and where the poor man IL the cot
tage will be as equally regarded as the mo-
nafeh on the ihronc.
Was there not for ieveTal years psit
through one or two counties general cry
Of o6Drefion Was no, this cry founded on
acts too notoIiouly Illegal 10 be dhPuted J
Did not a,tornies, and other officers of the
court, extort fees from the poor people, d.
realy contrary to law, by which means
r,any were ruined Did not lome 20 obtain
debt, pay near treble in COTS taxed at ar
bitrafy pleaiure, yea fome for debt OF 43s.
have paid So. and executions out for i48l.
more! Thus opptenfd were not bills OF IN
diCtment found againf the offenders, thirty
particularly .againis one man ! Were not
thele generally dilmidsJ, or if regarded,
was not the fine 70 low, that it appeared
plainly an infult Why was 70 much ear
nelnefs ihewed to proiecute the rioters as
they were called, and yet though Tanning
and Hart, two capital traitors we're indicted,
no trial uttered to be had If fome were
tried were not the juries packed competed
Of under officers to thefe Yre!ches Yea 10,
high were theie gentry gown, that when ore
lsnt an hoyie to an attorney, he was impri-
foncd ard ruined for aiking him again. Was
..Hulb7nd's treatment agreeable to The law of
England, or he climate Of Conaan;inople !
{. Hs, it is laid in the public prints, and it
has not been ccntradiacd, was hrt taken
without warrant, not By fheriH or civil
officer, but by baMditti If laugs,5, efFrk',
s6vsrn. keepers, &c. fent TO gaol gvgt59at
n!ttimas, then taken out al midnight, put
under euard.--a gallows fixed in the gaoI,
and his trial under the moat5J Of eanHaE---
yea, could rot walk within the limits, but
bayonets were thruR at him, and after all,
nothing proved" Fora more particular &C
count Of thefe matters, the Chief Jufice will
thew you a letter wrote to him by James
Hunter. To thefc queGions, Sir, demand
folu,ion, Is the Ersts are untrue, the Regula-
tors muR be condemned; but if they are
true, mutt not the poor people be piticd, and
the wretch who to their other msfortunes
added bloodflled and murder, be dcteffed aud
forever execrated? A few more queRions
as to the Governors condua after he en-
gagged in this tragedy. Why had that gen.
tlcman military puniihment, who exprshed
fome di1a,isfaGiion at going You fay in one
of your refolyes, court martial was called
BY his Colonel, and he fnftersd by the order
Of this court. martial. But pray what right
had this court martial to infid this puniih-
mcnti Il is unconuoveIted, that this was
the militia, ard net that body Of men under
pay, which was afterwards RATED there he
might have proceeded with him in this man
nsr. But ! afeEi, they had no more tight
agreeable to the contribution CT ;hefe king
doms to proceed in their manner, than they
had to have annlhiIaied the fate ilielf
Thefc executions we meet with in tro6ps
anlsr pay, and the rcsion is they are governs
ed BY different law, read TO ,hem when
they hrR enter that fate, and under which
they continue dfina from other men. Il is
not 20 with the militia as to the Houle
paAing law to jaaify 'hisnit only ihews
how diAempered governments. The paiIing
th;, illegal aa, is reafon in itfelf to make
that unhappy people defpar Of living quietly
under fuch rule. But to proceed. Whsn
the Governor marched in 70 hclile man
per, it alarmed ihe people, who ran as in
amaze. Did not the Governor, i'll this iitua-
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