The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1804-11-07

think proper. Bot bis maiefv has no right to
land Jingle armed man on our flores, and thof.
whom he tends here are liable TO our laws made
for the fuppreiiion and puniillment of riots,
routs, and unlawful atlemblies; or are hoaile
bod;es,nvading us in defiance of law. When
in the courfe of the late war il became exDedi-
ent that body OF Hanoverian troops fhould be
brought over for the defence of Great Britain,
his maieGy's grandfather, our late fovere;gn did
rot pretend observation-disclosures authority
he poheitd. Such mesture would have gi-
ven iuh alarm TO his fubie9s in Great Britain,
whole liberties would not be fafe if armed men
of another country, and of another fp;ris, nigh.
be brought into the realm at any time without
the content oftheir Legislature. He therefore ap-
piled TO parliament, who paiied an act for that
purpofe, limiting the number to he brought in
! and The time they were to continue. In like
manner is his maiefy reitrained in every part of
the empire. He poiieiies, indeed, the executive
power o. the l9ws in every rate but they are
the laws of the particular aate which he is to
adminiiter within that fate, and not thofe of any
! ore within the limits of another. Every fate
ruf Judge for tfelf the number OF armed men
which they may flfely truf among them, Of
whom they arc 60 coniia, and under what ref
triffions they ihal he laid.
! To render thefe proceedings ftill more crimi-
nal againit our laws, infead Of futist9ing the
D
prefslv made the civil borciinate to the militia
ry. Bat can his maefy thus put down all law
under his feet Can he ere9 power fuDrrior
70 that which erected hmfclf? He has done If
indeed by force /; but let him remember that
force cannot give right
! That thefe are oar grievances which we have
thus laid before his maety, with that freedom
ofianeuaee and ientiment which becomes = free
people claiming their rights, rs derived from
the laws of nature, and not rs the gift Of their
chief magiitrate Let thof- fiatter who fear !;
If IS not an American art. To Sive praife which
is not due might be well from the venal, but
would i'll hefeen thofe who are alIertng the
rights of human nature. They know, and will
therefore fav, that kings are the iervsnts, not
the propretors of the people. Open your
hreaf, FIRE, to liberal and expanded thought.
Let not the name Of George the third be 4 blot
in the page OF hinory. You are iurrounded by
BTitiih controllers, but remember that they are
parties. You have no miniiters for American
affairs, becaufe you have none taken from a.
mong us, nor amenable to the laws on which
they are 20 give you advice. 1t bchoves you,
therefore, to think and to act for yourtelf and
! your people. The great principles ofright and
wrong are iegihIe to every reader; to purfre
them requires not the aid OF many counfslors
The whole art of government conliflS in the
art of being honef. Only aim to do your duty,
and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
No rPerfeyereinf acrifcing the RICH OF one
part Of the empire nordinate deiires of auo-
Their hut deal out to all equal s. impartial right
Let no ACT be paIed BY any one legislature which
may infringe on the rights and liberties OF ano-
ther. This is the important pot in which for
tune hsc placed you, holding the balance of a
great, if a well Poied empire. This, ERE, is the
advice of your great American council, on the
obtervance OF which may perhaps depend your
felicity and future fame, and the preiervation of
that harmony which alone can continue both to
Great Britain and America the reciprocal advan-
tagcs of their connection. 1t is neither our
with, nor cur intersf, to fepsrate from her. We
are willing, on our part, to facrifce every thing
which reafon can ak to The reftoration of that
| tranquility for which all rnua win. On their
| part, let them be ready TO efablia union OIL a
pan. LIT tirvsS' tiIvi, terms hut
le' the:n be jnlt. Accept of every commercial
iI isisT&hce II is IN our power to give for fuch
Things as We can raife for their ue, or tJ,ev MAXI
Tor ours. But LET them rot think to exclude W
rom gong to other markets to difpefe of thcie
commodities which they cannot uf., or to fur
ply thoie wants which they cannot family.
sun LET'S let 1t be propofed that our properties
within our own territories hall be taxed or re-
guiated by any power ON earth but our own.
1 he God who gave US life gave rs Liberty a. the
lame time; the hand of force may deftrov. bpt
cannon uisloin them. This, fire, is our lait our
determined reioiution; and that you will be
pieaied TO Interpret: with that efficacy which
your garnet endeayours may enfiire to procure
redreis Of thefe our great grievances, to Quiet
the minds of your iubjecls in Britifl America.
againit any apprehenhons of future encroach-
ment' TO eftablilh fraternal love and HARMONY
through the whole empire, and that tbefe NAV
continue to the ldtef ages of time, is the fcryeDt
prayer of all Britiih America!