The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Boston [Mass.]) 1770-1772, 1772-07-30

iRn-Way. wncn perhaps / nate lSl L. I.
IN my Pockets This Man may lawfully
kill. TO another l,delwer 90 /. TO hold
only whiiel alight, which he refuies to So
fore me wheui sm gel, up sealn,. rbut
draws hiaSwoId to defend, the pollution Of
it byitorce, If endsayour TO retake il.
The miichIef thia Man .doesrmc; 10 . hun,
bred orrpoihbly a thoufand times more than
the Other perhaps intended me, fwhom
killed before he really did noe any and yet
! night lawfully kill the one, and cannot
e much Is hurt tho other lawfulfy.s The
Keaion whereof is plain. /; -becaule the one
uling force, which threatened my Life, L
could not have time to appeal to theLaw to
lecture 1t: And when il was gone, it was too
late 10 appeal, The Law could not retsors
Life to nay dead The lofs was ire.
parable which TO prevent, thsL Jaw. OF Ma
ture gave me Alright TO de.troy him who
had put himislf into a fate of w ar with me,
and Threatened my dciiruetion. : But in tho
other cafe, my Life Dot being in danger, {
may have the benefit of appealing to the
Law, and have Rsparation for my 100 l.
tnaL way, -. f,ha4i tsft n IN q.
;, Eswibb, But if the unlawful acts done,
by the MagiRfase, be maintained (by the
power he ba>got) and the remedy which
ls due by Law, be BY the fame power OBJ
itrueted yet the Right of xeiiiting, even in
lnch maniteR Acts of Tyranny, will ! not
iuddenly, or on flight locations, diifmb the
Government. For,is it reach no farther
than iome private Mems Cafes, Though they,
have,a right to defend them(elyes, and TO
recover BY force, what by unlwful force,
IS taken from them yet the Right to do
10, will not eaiily engage them in. a Con-
tett wherein they are Iure to perth il be-
ing as impoGible for one. or aisw opprsfIed
Men TO difurb the Government, where the
Body of the People do not think themielyes
concerned in it, "a for a raving mad Man,
or heady Male- content to oversurn !. well
fetsled State, the People being ~ little aps
| to, follow the one as the other, 4 ,,-,.,
| But If either thele illegal Acts have ex-
tended to. the Minority ofthe People, OF If
the Mitchell and Oppreilion has light only
on fome few, but in fuch Gales, as. the Pre-
cedent and Confsquences feem to thfeateh
all, and they are perluaded in their Conc
licences that their Laws and with them
their Eitates, Lihessies and Lives are in
danger. and perhaps rhed ReligioA TOO
how they will be hiadredfro reliaineilIe-
gal force, uled againR them, l. cannof tell
This 10 an lnconyenience, confels, chat
attends all Governments whatloever, when
the Governors have brought il q
this pats, to be-genHally fufpe6ed Of theil
people, the mott dangerous fate they car
pohbly put themlelves in, wherein .thes
are leis TO be pitied, becau(e il 10 70 safy Il
be avoided. Ii being as impolible lor !
Governor, If nc really meas The good o.
his people, and the pseiervation OF then
and theiT Laws together, not to make then
fee and feel itS 40 il 10 for the Father of
Family not 10 lee his Children Zee be loves
and takes care ofthenf. s.af- q 49,
| But if all the World mould oblsrwe Pre-.
fences OF one kind, and Actions Of another
Arts ufed TO elude the Law, and the .TFnf
of Prerogatiye (which,is an Ar biuasy Pow.
ef in Tome things, left in the Prince's4haAs
TO 90 good nor harm to the People, en-.
ployed contrary TO the end for which I
was given, If the People iball find the Mi.
nifers. and ,(abordinate MagiHrates chof
en- fuitable TO fuch ends, and fayoured. q
laid BY propOrtioEably as they promote Of
| oppcfe them: II they Zee ieveral expsri.
ments made Of Arbitrary Power, and that
Religion underhsnd favoufed though pub
lickly proclaimed zgaintt, which 10 readieh
70 INTRODUCES it, and the Operators init fnp.
| ported - much q, may Be !, and when tina,
csnnos DC done, yet approved Gill and Xix
% the better, and ; long Train of Aeings
fhsw the Councils al ssading that way