The Massachusetts spy, or, Thomas's Boston journal. [volume] (Boston [Mass.]) 1772-1775, 1774-09-15

living p5,e 70 ia-sc,y asana ne f';at &, toe -.
1T hard, n.lcay to enter into the nle OF il. hal
on, obielve, that we had the oon;sn' Of te pe-
pie alter hcr government, 1t would &c Unwe TO naAs
Gch alterations hee. gse the appointment Of TIE
GOV erno ard TIE council the crown, and the diofll
Of all places cftne judge and vita power ofremo'
n2 them, 60 the governor, IS evidently calculated with
view to form iIong pasty in our favour This know
I'm been dol in other coon.s but Al this is opening
souce Of pet ,tual daotd, where L Is nte.c always
to agree. ii ve any thing by this eabihmenl, it
is TO uPpo tie governor and council asrns the people,
j. c. ,9assre wish friends, that we may pieae their
crya}o. This eheme of governing them hy party
wlely sincd it much premature, AID, al cysnts,
mutt turn 10 our dadvintage. If Z fails, it will only
maze US contemplate; f iucceeds, it will make obi
ous IL is our ntere to IKE very little part in their do
uielc administration of goArnmen but purely to watch
over them for their good We never gained 70 much BY
North America as when let them govern hcrielyes,
and we're content to trade nth them and to protect them.
One would think, my los there was tome aatute law
prohibiting US, under the ere penalties, profit BY ex
perience.
Ny Lords, have veattred lay my thoughts before
you on the grcae national concern that under
YOUR deliberations with oh honeity you will
with from ADLER men, and viii melancholy afuahre, that
not word of il will BE- recorded. And yer, my Lords,
with your permion, viii waite one ihcrt argument more
on the fame cauie, one thar fond Of and which
contains in il, what think, muA AFFECT every generors
mind My Lo ds, Ioc upon North Amerca as the OILY
great nure of eemen LETT upon the face Of the earth.
We have fcen the Liberties Of Poland and Sweden fSepr
away in the couc Of year, BY teaehey and uiuaon
The three free ownsn Germany like 70 many dying
iparks that go out, one after another and which mu ali
be oon extinguhei under the deeve greatness Of their
neighbours. Holland is little than great trading
Company, with luxurious manners, aEi anexhaued reve-
nue. with little rength and with lef pFit. Swiszer
land alone is free and happy within the inolou'e OF
- AZ fare f
Lords can only refer myef your iecret thoughts
am dpoied to think and hope the bet of public liberty.
We're to deGcrbe her according t. my CEn ideas at pre-
feat, ihoud FAY that 1e has feky counteharce, but
/ trua fhe has arong contribution.
But whatever may be future fate, the geate glory
thar attends this county, greater than any other nation
ever ACC ured, is have formed and hurried up to iuch
hae of happne ghoe colonies whom we are now eager
20 butcher. We ought oherih them as the immortal
monuments of public Juice and wiidom as the heirs
of better days, of old arts and manners, and of our
expiring national virtues. What work OF art, or oSer,
public utility has equaed the glory of having peoped
continent without guilt bloodihed, with multitude
ofee and happy comm IN wcat; to have given them The
bet Of life and goyernment and TO have iutcled them
under the fetcr of aIthjty 20 acquire in peace the
li to uie them. In eomparifon Of this, the policy Of
governing by Influence, and even the pde OF war and VIC
tory arc dhonea c.s and poor contemplate Pageantry
We leem rot to be ienibe OF The nigh and important
mott precious renans Of civil liberty that the world
now boat of, are nowodged in hands and God for
hid that we hould violate iacrei depoht. b. enlving
YOUR colonies, you not only ruin the PEACE the commerce,
and the fortunes Of both Countless bot you extnguh the
airea hopes, nut I'D the lat ayum OF mankind Think,
nv Lords, without being weakly ipetious, that good
man NAV hope that heaven win lake part agan the
euton of plan which ems big, not only with mitchell
but impiety. .4..: .
Let us be content with the fpois and the deRlo1 OF
the eaf If your Lordhps no lmPrcpnety in it.
st the pundere and the oppeor m fec. But let not
the love Of Liberty be the only you think worthy Of
puniihment ! fear we hal foon make II part of our
national character, ruin every thing that has the mfor
tune 70 depend upon us. -
No nation has ever before contriyed, in 70 hor fpacs
of time without any public calamity uel unwile
eales may be 70 ealed) dstroy uch ample reouces
Of commerce, wealth AID power of late were ours, and
which, If they had been rightly improved might have raIied
US 10 Gate more honou abe and Rore peranen seatnes
than the world has yet leen.
Let me remind the noble Lords in administration, that
before the Aamp-a they had power iucient TO anfwes
all the u ends of government and they were all completely
angered. If this the they want, thoughwe nave
loft much Of it at pienl, few kind words would resoyer
it all.
But If the tendency of this bill is, as own it appears
70 me- TO acquire power Of governing them BY influence
and corruption in the fri place, my Lords, this IS not
true governments but lophiAoaed kind, which counter
feils the appearance but without the pt virtue Of the
true And then, tends debate their pits, and cor
rupt Their manners to deroy all that is great and respectable
in 70 comfortable part of the human pece, and by de-
eres to gather them together with the ref of the world
under tie yoke of universal lavey think, for teie
reaIons it is the duty of every wife of every honst
man, and of every Enghman, BY all lawful means, to
oppoie Il.