The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Boston [Mass.]) 1770-1772, 1772-02-27
From The PoLITIcAL REGISTER.
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SIRE,
TT is evident that your forefathers KEEP,
the guardianihip Of the laws eiaViola,ec
in the cafes of urder and ROBBERY there
is no man, now alive, that knew both OF
either, that can lay his hand on his breail
aud fay that any of them would have fuf-
fered one Sfers'0vy to order, or eOHiriOE, ana
arstbsr to return tbtir thanks for the aIaeritj
eflbs murdsrEyI sf an innOetm ptOpk No
The mention OF fuch things wtuld have
been mot icvercly punifhed by tho: mof
illuitriou, qua dams OF our conlt.tu,loa
But leave tnls.
No laying Gao be attended with plaiuel
frnlioie eyii nc, than this, thar a biGes al
court is a castiaua! bribe. This benz undo.
niab!e, it plainly follows, that the court
and council compiled of tho(e who are
bribcd, whethe, by the King, or hrs mini
Ter, with the money dtvafced by toe Peo-
PIE, mult be blinded from thei. GUY TO-
wards G on and man Eh= wife So'omor
declares, that a 6ri5e bLindstb The EYES, me2I.-
ing the foul F'ou this you may
&c: wAo thole are that furroun5 yo'
they think OF nothing ieis thad ycdI
honour, nor have rn.y any greater con
ccrn st thclr heart for any thing to be GO
in your fervice, than their own emoumen,,
and power fetting Aide every regard t.
your dignity, and the welfare of the people
who chofe +, GU for the common conlerva.
tor of their laws, contribution, rights, liber
Efies, and properties. The chief minifte
Is 4 mefl convincing proof OF this for, no
conteSHd with his wages, he has receiv,
Bed large additional emoIuments, which
frengthen him to injure the people, anc
wound the King through their fides.
Agsinft the doctrines of our mott holy
religion, Bifhops for life are bibed for life
Judges made perpetual have perpetual
bribe, and th. under dignitarie, OF church
and fate. all afpiTe, Per tgl ant sefNS, righ
or wrong, to arrive TO the nitro, or fcals
tn: bsnch, that all may be moro hiphI,
5ribed Thsie, with long lift Of Others
are 20 be feen and judged Of by CON
mon eye.
An iniinuatlng councillor, a pretendei
to knowledge anu eoodrels of heart, is Z
fnare to King and black muf the anna;
4 do nor mean ct TIE r.,ga forhe ErignsiL
not of this nominal King be 'traEtn,i';eC
to poftsrity, who without openioe h. ewes
TO realon aud facts, gives 'mp.icir toR6-
dence to every iuggelt,on every oiGtate o.
luch a man. From l!hs @ick-5 c0unlei-
lor proceed the juft complaints muFrnuis.
aud difcontents of loyal, but reject d and
much injured people, againR a government
uniuf, wicked, tyrann eel at home ; from
whence arifc, and is carried on the wings Of
the wind, national infamy amongit diftsnt
kingdoms.
Such council ors, too many fuch there are,
are conftantly on their guard that no iub-
jea however important be laid before, nc
language, however truly, jufly and de-
Gently uttered, fhll ever reach, the ears
of the common representatives of the peo-
pie, unleis it be fIch as they adopt and
chule, and on which they PATS their own
ignorant centuries, or warped judgments.
Thus they keep the King in perpetual ig-
norance of truth the only object they
ought, as in duty bound, to keep couhant-
ly before him. Thus ne is kept from thC
purluit of truth, the only 4oad that can lead
him to honour, the people to Happiness a
home, and all to refpcef, ieReen, and con
hdence abroad.
The inGnuating, bold! afpiring fervant
or miniffer, is always trehcherous 10 th
King and people as iooR as he can n
will ferve himlelf, regardless whether h:
ruins both. OF this, Sire, not 20 mention