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- mm mmm mmm w -mm w m . w w w. aw w . civil rights, which by the laws: of their counV try all BritiGl Subje&s are intitled to, as -their, beft inheritance and birthXright that all the northern colonies, .who arc Without one repfe ientatiye in the houfe of; Commons, fhould be taxed by the Bntiih parliament.; absolutely irreconcilealile withthe rights of the Colohifts, as Britifli fubje&s, and as men. I fay men, for in a ftate of nature, no man can take my property from me, without my con-fent-:-If he does, he deprives meof my liberty, and makcs:mc a flave. If fuch "a proceeding Xhat the cplonifts, black and white, born is a breach of tie law of nature, jio law of fo- iiere, are free born Subje6ts, and entitled to all cicty can majce itiiuft-The very aftof tax- - the eflential civil rights. of fuch, is a truth not only, manifett from the provincial charters, irom tne principles or cne common law, ana A$ts of parliament; but from the Britilh cdn- iilUtutioiK :which3s!ire eftablifhed at the rc- J-lvoluudnv iwUHHCPTiifwi'd--d-fijjiv to focure the In the I zand 13 of Wm. cited above, -the bed birth rij;hts No one ever dreamt, furely, i9- that theft liberties were'eonfmed to the realm " M the domiui- be," declare.a enutiea to au tne privileges or : - ' . 1 ' . t ' ! 1 'it luoiects Dori WKmn inc reaun, co 911 intents aaci rpoles, whicl r,ghtly given foreign ing, exercifed ovei;. thofe who junot.feprer; fen ted, appears to me to be depriving; them of one'df tneirmolrelle . - 1 ' , ,'-v....., . . . '' and if continued, feems to be in effeft an entire w h a t ope ci v i 1 -rih t -.is vvonth a;ru (h ,; a (terra" j - - - - -y j ww v.if.wia (( at pleafure, vvithobt h lf .a man is not his tr in perfon, or by deputy, his liberty is gone, or lays entirely at the mer cy ot others, r I think I haveih.eard-it-faid..thatwKen fhr Dutci arc allied wliy they eriflave.their colo niesy their anfwer is, that the liberty of.Dutch "meh isk confined to .nevcrlntended for Provincials lnrAmit1caS):ir 1 " - -- -.. . .... 9 t .V.i J , . V W u I ll v i k, v. j , w viiiii& ivi vii I vmwi mii r fiut.iv viiwi t iwiiuutvill VII19) VI V WJI Thefe expreffions of parliament, as well as of thy Dutchmen ; but if their brave and worthy : the cli ar ters", rm uft" bF vain an e nip ty lounds anceftors had entertainciTfuch harrovv ideas of unlefs we are allowed the cfleqtial rights' of our Rbcrty, feyep poor and. diftreffed provinces ieliow fubjes in Great-Britain. ' ' would nevr have affertcd their rights. againft ." iNoy can tnere oe any iiocrcy,wncrc-jiEi-r tne wnoic opanun monarcnyor wnicn tne preieni is out a uuciovv. it is to oe noped none of our fellow fubjedh of Britain,, great or fmall, have borrowed this Dutch maxim orplantation politics ; jf they have, they: had better return Modern Dutch or French -maxims of ftate, rpeyer will fuit with a Britifhj conftitution. It is a maxim, that the King can do no wrong ; psrty is taken away without confent ? Can it "Vith any coldurotruth, jufticc or equity,; be affirmed, that tKe northern colohicsare repre fehted n parliament? Has this whole continent of near three thoufand miles in length, atiJ in which and his other American dominions, his Majefty has, or .very bon will have, fome miilions or as good, loyal and uierui lupjects, vhite and black, M any" in the three king aiidvery good fubjefl isTboiin donis the eledlion of one member of the houfe Kinc is not inclined to do any nrin trr , hut fturon nU..nIM. J Ui VUtlllllUllO : wu Yi"i jnuww nuu lias 'Vl dUUllUaHV UC Is there the leaft differenceas to the CQn-r-monftrations,- that jn all his adlionsr-he -ftudies fentof the Coloniusv-whethertaxes and im-the good of his neoDlev and-.the truelcrlorvof - . .... ,. - - ' - w -. . . - ..7 o y pofitions are laid oh; their trader and other pro perty, byahe crown aloneorrby itheparlia? nient As it is agreed on all hands, the Crown alone cannot impofe them, we fliould be jufti ;iiablei2m refufingiito:p ought to yield obedience to an a& 6f parlia incnt,vthoVerroneous, ?till repealed. : vIcan iee no realopi " tcrdoubt, but that the his crown, which arc infeparable. It would therefofcT:!) Mddifloyalty to imagine that the King j at the .head of his parliament, could have ahy, but the' goodnefs and truth, that human nature is capa ble of. All this I fay jind believe of the King and parliament, in all their als ; even in that mpofitionH and, or houfcis, or (hips, "on real or perlbnal, nifts j and that a moft perfedl and ready 6be fixed or -floatin2-DroDertv:inthe colonies is dicnce isLtoI)evielded-to -it,while it remains
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