The Massachusetts spy, or, Thomas's Boston journal. [volume] (Boston [Mass.]) 1772-1775, 1774-07-07

advantage 70 the tots tey might iuer INDIVIDUALLY But
hockel the friends OF the contribution both In city and
country, who had been o active and mcared thngs on
the large Eac, to think that Bottom the beeged city
that The was called upon by her neae and mott Respectable
neighbours, 60 lupend trade and without giving pub
lie reaton fcs 10 doing, faid e would From hence
originated the dreadful non-eonumPtion agreement Our
ineimable brethren in the country the wife and hardy
yeomanry, iad they had long been the dupes Of
camille peridy-they remembered thoie few f.nterefed
traders who had fold them in the lat ugge for rights,
when we were on the very point OF occurring them. They
faw their names, not Ron-impoation agreement, but
In addeis Mr. Hutchnion, where they teiify the
entire tisfaeon they feel the WISE, jealous and
FAITHFUL administration" of man to whom the whole
continent with very uncomfortable exeeptions afebe the
troubles Of North-Amenea and they reoved take the
affair into their hands, Several towns drew up cove
wants in ch bet uted them, and in particular
hid unanimously agreed diconnue trade entirely and
not few towns became thus niprcc, and the pirt
had pread at leaf forty miles inland from the outhcrn Dor
der OF the province before the Bottom committee had heard
the leat ntmation of it. 1t was propofed to them
plan ndipenablc to deliverance and without equivo-
cation dcire to t the Praie blame of j, from them
elves any Others the committee in the mon public
acknowledged their having planned printed and ed
to the ievera towns in the province, non-conumPton
agreement. To this very ervec they were pointed BY the
lpirit OF vote, paiied the ina
very full meeting of the and in every ep of their
conduit they endcayoured avail th,mielyes OF the beA
advice they could obtain from the mott understanding per-
ions they had acce If the agreement did not ut the
everal taes and ineres of all their fellow citizens and
eountynen, through their o. care, pains,
repeated and continued confederation, upon iubed
feedy the mof weghty and difficult that before
Them On tending out the agreement, committees cane
IN from Tome neighbouring towns propong amendments
and without pretending that their model ihoud be impoied
upon their fellow countrymen they Immediately ued
circular letter, hgnyng, that in that any other
iufe did they pretend dictate their brethren, but
eeved that any form retaining the ipirt and genesa n,en
ton of their covenant, would undoubtedly anlwer every
end proPoied BY IL. The committee of WoreRer for n
ance, peaied to differ very materially from the
mittee of Bottom, popong that all goods imported before
the 3IR of AuguR ihoud be fold without exception and
faid committee having in their opinion made iufeient pro-
v6on that the country might not be mpoed upon by goods
imported after the pulated time, they very freely recon-
mended the Worcester in preference their
All thefe facts fairly ated open town-meetng, and
well Imported BY the committee and indeed, far as
recolIet dputed by their opponents. But
the whole weight Of the blame laid upon them for
Iung an nrument, hurtfa TO the trade, and indutve
Of Pe1urie dicoEds and anmo6ties among friends and
neighbours, without having the LEAH ProPe of anfwerns
the propoied end None pretended that the Bth plra
ment had right to grant the monies of the coonthe
onge advefafes of the committee declared their orpo
ton to the claim No better meaure propoed syod
fubmRion to 1t and finally every pauiibs objection to
II the time let
reception Of goods from England too hort QhisF
il was anfeted that the many gentlemen whof7d Ssup-
demanded their orders had Voluntarily given "a beT I
importation and rclon could be ALIGNED why 0AeHhepld
give up half years profit as well as another sss
indeed no traar nor property Of any kind csd fe IS
things were going. They obfered that by ingthening
the me for the reception Of goods enormous quantities
might be ordered, which nifcad Of IEGArING, the
manufacturers to feprcsent us, the Pbiadepan wcy
e1pree5 IL would render them quite eafy ill the enuirg
election is over; and then farewell liberty in every part Of
Chraendoni This is Of too much importance
70 be ri4ued agant few rfing accommodations and ad
ufments Of pun6ilios The good enie OF Nevbury-Port
add Providence, with many other towns perceived the
neeeiy Of drawing up the Chipping to the wharyes, and
noe exporting nor importing farthings worth from
Crcst-Bntain, &c. Would 60 God the merchants who
had ncn-imPortaton forced upon them whether they
would not, had been fPted and ronent with their
acknowledged duty How abjcd NUT the men appear in
the eyes Of mankind, whom pccics OF oppreion can
divert from the purfuit Of 70 FINAL gain as might be made
by picking gold of gingerbread Would not man Of true
wifdom and prt aefhec his all, and rque his very life,
rather than run the venture of having his peon and pro-
pcrty fubetted the zbfoute diipoa OF Brnf nnilcf
And if laws may be obtlined by that minfer to conro
the AMI command the other in all cafes whateyer who
can fay he is frcan, that he really owns farrhng'
Putting oft the time Mould oppo fuch violent attack
upon US, dioyers roo great dipoition fubmit it,
And certainly plain eouncraang Of the party who are in
purt Of the Acknowledged ole meare be depended on
for relief, without ProPoGng any abaituc its cad
is declaring to the world, that in the eeem Of uch oppo-
nents, LIrE, LIBERTY and PROPERTY are not worth
oontrndsg for refer all the deeon Of the approah-
ing eongre isy in my judgment, extremely impotic.
relaxation in iome articles Of aboute nsceiy, and iome
notifications Of the general agreement ua be inevitably
left Their widOm but certainly the the reioluons
of every part Of the continent manfcled, to maintain
their faered rights, all hazards and extEcms the more
ftrong viii be hands Of their delegates.
Whoever weud endeayour reader the committee obi
to their fellow citizens and country men, by Affirming
that they defamed every Pefon Unfortunately, the ve
Of mankind, who fgned the addef the late Governor
Huchnlon, mPoes upon the public large before whom
the obnoxious letters freely read and by whom the
determination mutt be remembere5 in the Philadelphia
letter Especially, and in the Ne-York promed to be
given thereafter, but il Ieems has hitherto been omitted
the printed In having by been the production Of
the eommttee or % ther kno.aoe Of any one n.hcr of