The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Boston [Mass.]) 1770-1772, 1772-06-04

tuition Tor the equal divifion of lands |: But
to find our property time after time wreR-
ing out of our hands, and batting ell pretence
of putting our chartered neighbours on
more equal footing with us, TO fee it con-
verting into petty tyrannies, and the inha-
bitahts after taking all the legal feps they
were aware offor obtaining title, Narrated,
difreflsd and fome of them deffroyed, for
not fubmitting TO claim, derived from the
right of an abdicated charter, is certainly
intolefzbie. Had we no imaginable pre-
tence TO either loil or jurifdefion of the
lands in queition, the very monopoly of
fich prodigiouS tracts Of 10, 2o,to 100, 900
acres each, upon our borders 10 formidable
enough to alarm q prudent people. We
find how flight prstenfion 10 now efteem-
ed fuficient foundation for title; what
may then be fuppofed too weak when
the power of our Barons attains It's meri-
dian
Appeals to law are already become ruin
Gus, by the avarics of Attornies and uncer-
sainty of undated juries. What will be
the cafe when one man may command the
labour of thOulands and difpole of it at his
pleafure.
In the transfer of HinEdale, Sc. to New
Hampihire, the property of foil was holden
UNMARRIED, and how it can be legally adjudg-
ed 20 any other province 10 more than any
man can demonffrate from any principles of
law and right now in being, The order
of the council in I764,which was general.
ly allowed to be the mof grisvous determi-
n7tion that ever reached America in this
century, laves the foil 70 the actual pohef-
lors, 70 cruel il leemed TO the then adminif-
uation to anpul the idea of right at the
frf effort. But the eficirnf Governor
Tryon, united TO forms, unufed to the OBJ
ferva,ion of punaiIios, and liberal to pro-
dizzy in confiSuetion Of his orders in favour
of the great, can locate his mandamus's on
any fpot he thinks will bett fuit the gram
tee, and terrify the ignorant people into an
opinion of his having power TO ruin them
unlefs they beitow him and few cormo-
rants his confederates, thoufand dollars
per townihip for confirming title, which
on pain of his MajeRy's dhpleafure they
were forbid to diRurb befides douceur
of quit rent to foften administration
Il may be afksd, what has the MaiIachu-
(etts to do in this affair ! anfwer as much
as the Ashenians had when Philip of Ma
cedon invaded the Olynthizns. Self pre-
fervation, fsIf-intereff, and the honour of
the government, unitedly cOniPire to urge
them into action. The pretence. of acco-
n,odating New Hampfhire ID now quite
out Of the quetfion, as New-Hampfhire it.
feif is to be 1iced to pieces to accommodate
the friends and afociates of the pre:ent adj
miniRration.
Let Msfachufetts then aAcrt her too
long neglected. rights, and put her Jacobite
opponents upon the manifestation Of their
powers of limiting that eight. The fo0ncr
thefe matters are taken up the better for
civil war will be the inevitable confe-
quence of long neglect of them, the break
crs of the orders of the crown, having al
fumed to themfelves the title Of the govern
ment and denominafed all oppo6tion to
their iniquitous proceedings, oPpoiition 20
government. I could fcarce have believed,
were my authority doubtful, that 70 bare
faced an imn0(tion could have been ina
gined prae apon the people as to
make them - The robbers and undoers
of themfelves. rninifry can vouch
their orders TO very man to ref un-
difturbed ia bis poilsAion. Tryon and
company can diRurb them thl they are fain
to petition himieIf that fhey may through
his pure hands have title from The crown,
though the crown ia the mof explicit terms