The Literary echo, and Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1851-1854, 1851-10-23

freemen and subjects they have right to by
Magma Charta and the Bill of Rights, and
also to deprive them Of the fruit of their
own labor and the produce of their own
lands, and make the present colonists and
all their property slaves to the people or
rather to the Ministry of Great Britain.
9th. That the granting salaries to the
Governors and Judges in the Colonies, the
enlarging the jurisdiction of the Court of
Admiralty, the appointment Of the Board
Of Commissioners, the increase of the Gus
tom House officers, the arbitrary power
given to those officers to break into any
mans house, (ever considered by law as a
sacred retirement from all force and yio-
lence until now, and to forcibly enter into
his bedchamber, breaking open his desk
and trunks, and offer all kinds of insult to
his family, the introducing fleets and armies
to supply those officers and enforce sub
mission to every act Of oppression, are in
consistent with every idea of liberty, and
will certainly, if not Immediately checked,
establish arbitrary power and slavery in
America, with all their fatal consequences.
10th. That the act Of Parliament enti-
tied an act for the better preserving his
Majesty's dock yards, &C., is fragrant vio-
lation Of all our natural and constitutional
rights, for by this act any man in America
may be seized and carried to any part of
Britain, thence to be tried upon pretence
of his being concerned in burning boat,
vessel or any material for building, or any
naval stores, &C., and being deprived of a
trial by his peers in the vicinage, and sub
jected to foreign Jurisprudence, under the
direction. of those who neither know nor
regard him, though innocent, he is sure to
be entirely ruined.
18th. That the act allowing the East
India Company to export tea to America,
subject to duty payable here, and the
actual sending the tea into the Colonies by
the Company are manifest attempts to en-
force the revenue acts, and undoubtedly
designed to make precedent for establish
ing taxes and monopolies in America, in
order that general tax upon all the ne
cessaries of life and on all our lands may
take place, and monopolies of all valuable
branches of commerce may be established
in this country We will, therefore, nei-
ther buy, sell, nor receive as a gift any
dutied tea, but shall consider all persons
concerned in introducing dutied tea into
this town as enemies to their country.
10th. That it is the duty of every man
in Ameaica, who loves God, his king or his
country, to oppose, by all proper measures,
every attempt upon the liberties of this
country, and particularly the importation
Of tea subject to a duty, and to exert him
self to the utmost to obtain a redress of the
grievances the Colonies now groan under.
18th. That the inhabitants of this town
ever have been, and now are, loyal and
dutiful subjects to their Sovereign; that
they have a most affectionate regard for
their brethren in Britain and Ireland, that
in all the wars in America they have, when
the government has been constitutionally
applied to by the Grown, granted all the
aid in their power, and frequently more
than was expected, that they are still ready
when called upon in the same constitution
al way, to grant such aid and assistance to
the Crown, as the necessity of the case may
require, and their ability will admit. But
though we are ready to sacrifice our lives
and fortunes for the true honor and interest
Of our Sovereign, and the good of our mo-
ther country, we cannot give up our liber-
ties to any person upon earth they are
dearer to us than our lives. We do, there
fore, solemnly resolves and determine that
we will heartily unite with the other towns
in this, and all our sister colonies, and ex-
ert our whole force and influence in sup
port Of the just rights and privileges of the
American Colonies.
l4th. That the Moderator, Joshua Bah
cock, Esq, Mr.. James Rhodes, Mr.. George
Sheffield, and Maj. James Babcocl, or the
major part Of them, be committee for this
town, to correspond with all other commit
tees appointed by any town, in this, or the
other colonies, and the committee is direct
ed to give the closest alton ion to every
thing which concerns the liberties Of Ame-
RIGA, and if any tea, subject to a duty,
should be imported into this town, or any
thing else attempted injurious to liberty,
the committee is directed and Empowered
to call a town meeting forthwith, that such
measures may be taken as the public safety
may require.
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