The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Boston [Mass.]) 1770-1772, 1772-09-10
From the POLITICAL REGISTER, for June
To The PRlN FER.

from inc CLlIISAL NESlS1 EKsiO uhS'
To The PRlN FER.
TIME papers have for long time paft
II been filed with difputss concerning
the laws Of England as they now fand +;
foms writers have slerted thai they are We y
deficient, Whit others have with equal po,
Gtivencfs affirmed, that they are the COM
pleateff body of laws that any country can
produce. / have with great attention peru
fed the letters of the advocates on both
fides of the quefion, and though maif
confeis that great deal of leaning is in
them, yet ;hink the authors Of them have
entirely niliaksn the quefion, which in my
opinion is not, whether the prefent laws arc
good or bad, but whether the miniiters
VINO are to fee that the laws are put Into
execution without prejudice or partiallitY,
have ienfe aud courage to fee that puniih
<aent is'paheJ upon the guilty, without re-
10 he quality or importance of the
rlinal Il feldom or never happens that
Tvs are bad in themftlves, but become 70
liner through the wickednels or weakness
OF The Governors of nation old they
po1els thar good fenfe and goodness, OF
heart which TIE original law makers intend
ed every man fhould be fer of, who
fncu!d be fer over apeop'e to Be their ruler,
TO laws exit Of which they need complain.
fhsll therefore not enquite into the per-
fe6fion or defect Of our laws, bur of our
mnifcrs. II matters 60 wrong 10 fate,
thotc who have the management thereof
muIt be to blame, and ought to be arfRrr-
able for tteir bad condu9 as tire laws OF
their country dirsa. Fhh, r. tus make tour
buiineis to learn whether tire body of peo-
pie at large are diHatished and if 70, fr-
coHdly, the caule of their uneafinsis. That
they are difIatished, abundantly APPEARS
fom the moff folemn teffImonies they have
repeatedly made againa the prefent rulers,
in'every mode that the Lays would autho
fize; and 70 publickly have they comp aim
ed and fhewn their dlapprobation and re-
fentmen, of the injuries and intults offered
20 them, that no p.rfon in the country can
be frsnger TO their adherence of the
minifers now in power. The csufe Of
their difike remains only to be confidered.
Indeed have often been furprifed at the
nsrownefs of the reckoning of thofe men
who afcrbed the fefments of the nation,
Which happened foon after tn acce1ion OF
bis prefsnt MsjsRy, to Mr.. Wilkes. as fit
were pofibie tor one man land pray, reader
mark whom TO route the refentmert ofa
whole nation and his colonies Ridicu'cus
fuppofition Ii is not in the power of ten
thoufand Wikes's to makeEneland unerat-
Eu or difob-dient, without efficient caufe.
We mutt not date the beginning of the
hationfs diAruR 70 far only as three or four
Bears back, for it originated much earlier,
within three moths after the death of the
late good old King. The psopls were IA
sized and united I'LL th=ir old and faithful
fSGovernors were discharged and infilted,
Under whole able naturalization their ar
es' were Victorious abroad, and their IL
ties Pfeferved at home in their fead, a
! ofienorant fycophants introduced, with
/ ability to cifs9 or inclination to be
lndf ltwere needless to mentioh ~hat
hiters were difmiled, or BY whom thev