The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Boston [Mass.]) 1770-1772, 1772-04-03
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I'M n ~c..e congratulate you, my good Lord,
- go IA the ingenuity CT your continuance,
OBTAINING reiolyr, from the council at
boron, asaiuft my aaertion refpeeting MI'
Oliver, and on your own very ieniible dii-
pafIionate comment on that reloution, with
which you favoured US in the Public AdVer-
,ifef of the 9TH Of lalf month. .
My Lord, this is the lecond attempt you
have made to dilcredit the writings OF Juni-
US Americans, with no other effect than to
inform the world, how JtsEbiy you feel them.
Yet his not your Lordfhip, bu, your pernI-
cious purpofcs, that are the obje3 Of my a.
nimadveriion. To efcape this, you mutt
reform tho(e for never, while | ll7e, ihalI
YOU per(ue them undeteGted and unexpected.
Blu, # your Lordfhip will endeavour to ie-
cure the happneis and liberties ct America,
with half The sGiduity which you have lapoug-
ed to fubvelt them, I llal!, with infinite
more Willingness, become your. Panegy'ltt,
than am row your cenfurer. Thtie are
the only retms on when yoi can avoid my
ennity, or eoneiliate my friend!Eip. And |
have great reafon to believe, ,heie are Objects
of importance 10 you, from he frequent
6srs you have given of being greatly grew
ed by what has been already written.
Among the proofs Of that, is the relolve
which ,our Governor, by your LordlhIp's di-
reaion preiume, obtained from avery thin
council in Bottom, to Impeach my veracity,
no iudicious friend to Mr.. Oliver would have
revived the confederation of matter, which
is 70 little 10 bis credit and which, the
more it is coniidered, the more it will affect
bis reputation. But you have called upon
me, by that ReGove, to lay the proofs of what
have laid again before the public; and on
re-confidering The charge to re-afirm, that
your Lordfhip's Lieutenant Governor, Mr..
Oliver, itands recorded OH the ouncil-books
as peIjured traitor and this, my Lord not
by council of siebt members but of the svbOlf
bard in Gfneyai Court aDSmbIsd-not by a
folitary, unweighing refolVe, but on folemn
argument, ferrous enquiry, due dellberation,
repeated relolves and facred obfeEvation.
Suffer me then my Lord, to recall to your
raudi1 mind, very briefly, that proceeding
on which this charge againit Mr., Oliver
was founded. Ii is painful TO be recspitula-
ting the murderous fcenes that have happen
ed under your Lordihip's aufpices, and thofe
of your Hagitious friends but you compel
me to the difagreeable talk. $500.
When the ever memorable mahacre was
perpetated at Bottom, b. your Lordhip's
new formed peace officers, the traniaetion was
70 attocious, that it was deemed neceiiary,
even in thoie bad times, to palliate the guilt
of thofe concerned, by railing luiplclon,
that it happened in coniequence OF a Prc-con-
cer,ed plan in the people of the province, to
rife and overthrow the new revenue and mi
ltary eRsblllhments. A minute of Coun-
Gil framed for this purpofe, by Mr.. Oliver,
then Secretary of the province, and attefted
by him on oath, was uled here iome time
for private conviction, and then made
public, to prove that iuch plan was
really concerned by the people. In that ml-
mute Mr, Oliver, repreients one menu
Der of the council declaring that 'tPlau
for an infurreetion was foimed, and that a
part of it was to remove the. troops out of
thetown, and after that the Commlhioners--
that divers other gentlemen adopted what
Mr.. Tyler had laid--that the minute he
drew up was altered by the council, though
they allowed il frStIy to expreis the
truth. becaulc il would not ffand we'll on the
council records" To all this, Mt. Oliver
made oath privately, and his brother, Mr..
Huschinfon, tranlmnted it to England,
where it was employed for the purPofes al
ready mentioned.
When this affidavit of Mr.. Oliver was
known at Bolton, the council took il into
confederation. MIR. Tyler the member
charged with having declared as above, and
fcyen more members, made oath, that what
MFR. Oliver had iworn to refpeefing a
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