The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Boston [Mass.]) 1770-1772, 1772-01-16

ia thood Tor truth thougn tbey Welc hol
under oath; never publicity or private y
fad nv country men had no grievances to
complain of that | knew OF no hbertles O.
rights trey had loft, that could BE FELT'
sEEN, OR UNDERSTOOD.
never ,wIItulIy endeavoured to deceive
the pu5iick, by telling them or lnilnuatns
10 them, that they were rich Hounihlng
people, that were in the full ENJOY ment OF
their natural rights as Engiihmen, and
that they were iecurtd by the laws IN the
quiet pofyfIion Of their property, wien
knew at the fame time ii was wretted from
them Nor did | ever, to recommend m, =
fe!f. fay to my friends, under the ,e(T, the
people had in my opinion a right to rtiitt
the acts impoiing duties on US by torer If
they were able and afterwards deny II, and
do nv utmoR to miireprelcnt and enfaye
nv own country.
If the publick have any reafon to believe
that Chronus is guilty OF what | mere pub
lickly declare | am not; they will believe that
I am both better and an honeiter man,
and would not exchange my LAST and
poor abilities for all his ExcELLENcIEs,an and
profound knowledge anc jeiuiticAI art.
would ak HONEST CHKoNUs what
he m ans when he fuppofes ttranger
fhouId fee our fh'ps and flores flied with
goods, and the me, chants buying and lei-
ling without interruption, our hp carry
inc abroad our opportunities, and iSturning
wit the pro uce OF almoft every climate
u,de- Heaven; our trAdeimeh emp Dyed Ia
their leveral occupations.
Should he pals through the market and
beho d it flied with every necefi4ry, and
almoft every luxury of Ilfe in the grsateit
enty and variety ImagIn bic. When he
hao viewed all this, fhou d he take tour
into the county, and beho.d the farmer
buGly &c ,upisd, Cuitlvatng his own
grounds or reaplng the fruits of them, fet-
ting unuer his own vIne and his own H.
tree, and enjoying with his family both tnS
profts and pleaiure oil country lite in
the great It plenty ard variety imaginable c.
If IN returning TO the met opo is, he ihouid
find tire roads amoit covered with coaches,
chariots anu chaies, filled with pope VINO
were making executions upon parties of
pleaiure, or merely for the take OF an air
ing. Chronus, this is Iniu ting, to pee
70 many agreeable Obi Cts before us when
YOU know their ihot Quraton, and the
fudden change that IS intended. But you
would here intimate that the itranger and
the unwary, Especially i'll the country.
towns, from all this appearance, mutt hence
conclude that we en eyed our full rights
and liberties agreeable to charter and the
contribution, and had nothing jGit.y to COM
PLAIN of. Would be BY luch wicked inii-
nuations endcavouT to peIluade the country
farmers into belief of iecurltY and Tui en-
ioyment Of their rights, at time too when
he knew their rights AND lubitance were
wreltng from them, and 70 MI ad them,
calls the friends of berry pretended pa,ri-
ots, a parcel of needy men y thout proper
~, who have nothing 10 hope tor but from
the rum of others. Or would he attempt
TO prove from al the(e appearances OF plen-
ty and gaiety, tn4t We hAv, nothing 20 COM
plain OF does he not know WITH eycry boy
in matter - S ichool, (God bieis them
] hope they Will not be corfupted) that the
mott abloiute and deiPotc governments and
kingdoms, as France, ru.key, 81. make
the fame apps ,an IS III trade and anue-
merts but nevertheless know 100 their
lives and fortunes epend upon the 4bio ute
will OF tier .ovr eisn; iucn m teries this
unhappy country now notoIouny begins to
experience, under the tyranny OF who we
fton fha.l re as aolo. utcly independart on
US, uneis tim.Iy checked by thoIe whom
Cronus calls wrong headed pretended pa
tnots. Wi Cbronus give me leave IN my
turn 70 tell the farmers, If they are bully
occupied in cltiyat.ug th:ir farms and
prunlng thei, v'nes and fighters, they are
bar preparing gARoNEEs tor thsir Nav