The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Boston [Mass.]) 1770-1772, 1772-01-30

LtOf Of Goa and the land, icreen this muir
derer from his due punifhment. | ihall
not be furp:iied to hear that they have
bG=gfl tbfmjt!veI, or that toms fignal judg-
ment from heaven has overtakeu them; at
prefent believe they are luffering Gains
punifhment.
Theie are but fmall part of your grie-
vances, my friends, were | TO enumcrate
them all, | mutt write volume; and
more are to come. If the Parliament have
a right TO tax our tea, they have as good
right to tax your land, and as high as
they pleafe; but as you are taxed for the
iuPPoIt of government by your own repre-
ientstIves, believe you think it enough.
Ii you give up the right of taxation b. YOUR
own representative, YOU will foon have
nothing TO call your own: Maadamus' S
may come for your lsnds; Bernard, Hut
clinton, the CommlAiohers, s., may
become your 10 ds ano you their tenants /;
but this my friends, fhouid i, be att, mpt-
cd, vii be defended by YOUR fwoIds, as
may be the cafe at Hlnidale ere long.
All Chronus's Arguments in favour OF
the prefent detachable plan, have been 70
often an(wered, that ihaH lesve the mat
ter with you; that you are fieemen you
know, and that no man has n. hi to diff.
pofe of your pTops r.y, but yourleves or
representatives. hat government is de-
rived from yourlelVes you 10 know, and
that you have naturally, and ought to have,
as many privileges as your fellow fubje6t.
in Great Britain. They have thell pat
lament with their King at their head, W.
have ours ALTO with the fame King VINO is
to govern us by no other rule but tn pro-
vince charter. Bythat W are intt ed TO
all Liberties and imhuntieS of free and ma
tural born fubjeets to all insents and pur-
poies as if we lived in the rea m OF EGG
land, the mott eff nua Of which is, that
of being governed by Jaws Of our own max
ing Our charter doth not at al connect
us with the people OF Great Britain, their
laws therefore can have no reference to us,
nor have we any connection with the King
of Great Britain, as the KIM of Great
Britain, but only as our King by fucceGpn
from his ancehors, agreeabi. to ffipuIa ALTON
in the feveral charters. BY JamcsS and
the fublequent charters, ou' ancefofs had
and we as their heirs have, right to the
g lands and premfes, jurildletions, rights,
ROYAL flES, Liberties, freedoms, I'M
munIties, privileges, franchlles, piehemi-
nences aud commodities whatfoever." All
this appears by deed on record IN Plymouth,
in the county of Devon, IN Eng land, and
thus being foe owners of fol- and love-
reignty, the Council of Plymouth, bel &
upon level with their Severe IN as to
this land, agreed with him to be tns.r
King, TO rule and govern thsm accor1ing
to the charter then mutuaI agreed upon
between them, and by rem wing here the
King loft al juriid6fIon over them as K ng
of Great Britain, and gained new JuiIl-
6tion by charter, entirely dlttlncf uom
the former. hus you fee my frirn S, we
are difine people from thoie of Great
Britain, and con(equently not iuoJ ct to
any laws but fuch as are enacted nee and
allowed by the King in perlon If he pieafe
to reiide here, or othsrwiie by ms repre-
tentative, for whole iuPport and for the
defence of government, We are BY
CHAR TER to aa:fs and levy taxes.
Whence then this interfering OF jurif-
dietions, this pretended fupenoTity OF the
Britiih parliament,to that OF this province I
From the vain imaginations oil ulurplng
Minifry who, were they here, together
with his Majefy, it is likely would pro-
pOGe an act of our provincial AHembly, and
with as mucn realon, to tax Great Britain /;
the improperly would be the fame, they
are both his Majefy's Parliaments, and are
both conifituted upon the fame principles,
and for the fame end, aid conlequentIy
mutt be feParate, and have no right to in
terfere with each other.
1t is our happiness that we have right
a - ,.w. e. L. r.