The Massachusetts spy, or, Thomas's Boston journal. [volume] (Boston [Mass.]) 1772-1775, 1773-11-26


honeitly obtained scquli,ions, whether of
good fame and coniequent uua among his
fellow. citizens, or the other goods OF for
tune, as lands, monies, Sc, now under, the
guardianfhip Of themielves and their equals
alike concerned in the preiervstion Of them,
to plunge headloDg into Rate OF wrong,vio-
Ienee, hauery, faiiehood, rapine, torture
and murder where the caprice Of one or
a few, on all occaiions determines The fate
of all Where the Battle ., rack and
gibbet fill the murmers of the opprei-
led and half harved wrctches magnify
the bounty of their King for kindly flf:tins
them to draw water out of the Seine, and
carry il on their backs to iupply the city Of
Paris. Deipotilm you know, ir,produces
all this, as naturally as fire does heat, and
ye, for few precarious moments enjoy
msnt ofa little ufeleis cafh, you can ruih
upon iuch paracide ConGder Mr.. Hutch
inlon T! Can you fsy in you heart, there is
no Gsd Can you think OF judgment to
come and not tremble Blood has already
bsimeared the ftreets of that metropolis
which afforded you the fra vital breath
Innocent blood, as yet unappsafd i'm
peaches your meAlureS rs the csufs of Its
effuiion. You are again lSbouring TO draw
on repetition of the tragedy. Ruth!eis
barbarian ! dees il not name you when G.
YEA Tryon, on your application, refuled
TO be an accomplice in your lcheme of eta
blifhiog g'O0nmsntl But leaving religious
contideI atIons, and admitting for once that
GSd is not in al! Jour Thoughts Do you j.
imagine yourislf capable always to deceive
and abule Mani Will your bare mention
of the word gsOOHmsnt iatisfy your coun-
trymen, that the pTe(ent iyhem OF uncon-
ftltutlonal and intolerable tyranny ia the
government they ought TO revere and fup-
port! Was ever lawful government fup-
poied to have other objects in view, than
me good of the people over whom it was
erected Did ever the dIftinetion of fisSds
to g0Vsrnmsnf in oppoGuon TO the friends,
defenders of the rights OF the people take
place in this territory iince Androfs left it,
tlll your adminittratlon And what, fir, do
political writers file government in OPP
| petition to the rights OF the people or
what does fucb governor, has aiderS and
abettors deiervefrom the peop.ei Proteai-
on, no doubt by military and civil officers
thar peace and good order may be main
tanned while he in The face of the fun 10 in
| turing their deitruefion I infatuated man
your Damon has left you long Gnce, but
NOT before he had ripened you for an ex-
ample hardly to be paraiielled in any age
OF county. Well laid the prophet that
the bs0fbm Ubs krslV ssf fbs IosU are &C.
eErjsa Acsurfed indeed fhouid we be, if
We dlo not know, that there was time,
when v./i,1anes BY fsr0 Of arms was the war
ranled outV OF community And is not
that time directly conIequent upon our pc
titisning the throne TO no purpofe ! 10
| not thar time arrived to US Have we not
degraded ouhelves by a lcandzlous repeti-
I ton of petitions and remonfl ances, which
lsrvsd only TO perlusde tyrsnnic admi-
I nlAration that we dare 90 no further, than
to petition and vslsfOs about grievances !
Are We not inlulted with an aaurance that
infead of being called home and tried, for
infinitely worfe crimes than Byng wa ihot
for, you may retire to peniioned fhecu-
racyi would gladly be informed wherher
that plotting, peIured, patron of private
Affirmation, who adviled the taking off
number of our beff citizens is to fuccesd
| you in the chief feat of government Have
not you yOurlelf iome FIX years ince &C.
knOwIedged we had right of reiiRance,
had We power, even in the dawnings of a
day which now lcorches every green herb I
In 6ms, have not the inroads upon our civil
contribution been 10 Gagrant, 10 NUMEROUS
and continued, rhatit would be q ,reafona-
bic acquIeicence in US, to endure them
any longer A fate at open enmity with
zee had a a nrl,e.~aI ~n0nAer. Hannv "a