Excerpt from The Farmer’s and Monitor’s Letters, to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies
Too obvious’, not to render every precaution wife, that tends to prevent the introduction of flavery. Notwithfianding therefore, thefe letters have been already publifhed, yet here, they have been feen only in the Gazettes, which, from the incertainty of their difperlion, and the length of time pailing between the reception of newfpapers in the country, may probably have prevented much of the benefit to be derived froma col lective, uninterrupted view of the manly reafoning, the timely information, and the true confiitutional principles of liberty with which athefe letters every where abound. Whoever confiders again that the nature of men in authority is inclined rather to commit ttwo errors than to retract one will not be furprifed, to fee the stamp-ar? Followed by a Bill of Right, declaring the power ‘of Parliament to bindus in all cafes what foever; and this a t followed again by another, impofing a duty on paper, paint, glafs, (yo. Imported into thefe colonies. But however unbounded may be the wifh of power to extend itfelf, however unwilling it may be to acknowledge mifiakes, ’tis furely the duty of every wife and worthy American, who at once wilhes the profperity of the Mother country and the colonies, to point out all invafions of the public liberty, and to ibew the proper ‘methods of obtaining redrefs. This has been done by the Authors of the following letters with a force and fp’irit becoming freemen, Eng/if]: freemen, contending for our juft and legal po’ffeflion of property and freedom. A pof: fefiionthat has its foundation ori the ‘clea’refl principles of the law of nature, the’moflz’ evident declarations of the ’engli/b confiitution, the plainell contract made between the Crown and our forefathers, and all thefe fealed and, fan ’tified bysthe ufage of near.
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