NOR are these the only capital grievances
under which we labor. We might tell of dis-
solute, weak and wicked Governors having
been set over us; of Legislatures being sus-
pended for asserting the rights of British sub-
jects -- of needy and ignorant dependents on
great men, advanced to the seats of justice and
to other places of trust and importance; -- of
hard restrictions on commerce, and a great va-
riety of lesser evils, the recollection of which is
almost lost under the weight and pressure of
greater and more poignant calamities.
NOW mark the progression of the ministerial
plan for inslaving us.
WELL aware that such hardy attempts to take
our property from us; to deprive us of that
valuable right of trial by jury; to seize our per-
sons, and carry us for trial to
Great-Britain; to
blockade our ports; to destroy our Charters,
and change our forms of government, would
occasion, and had already occasioned, great dis-
content in all the Colonies, which might pro-
duce opposition to these measures: An Act was
passed to protect, indemnify, and screen from
punishment such as might be guilty even of
murder, in endeavouring to carry their
oppres-
sive edicts into execution; And by another Act
the dominion of
Canada is to be so extended,
modelled, and governed, as that by being
dis-
united from us, detached from our interests, by
civil as well as religious prejudices, that by
their numbers daily swelling with Catholic emi-
grants from
Europe, and by their devotion to