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A memorial of the present deplorable state of New-England, with the many disadvantages it…
A memorial of the present deplorable state of New-England, with the many disadvantages it lies under, by the male-administration of their present governor, Joseph Dudley, Esq. and his son Paul, &c. : Together with several affidavits of people of worth, relating to several of the said governor's mercenary and illegal proceedings, but particularly his private treacherous correspondence with Her Majesty's enemies the French and Indians. : To which is added, a faithful, but melancholy account of several barbarities lately committed upon Her Majesty's subjects, by the said French and Indians, in the east and west parts of New-England. / Faithfully digested from the several original letters, papers, and mss. by Philopolites.A memorial of the present deplorable state of New-England, with the many disadvantages it lyes under, by the male-administration of their present governour, Joseph Dudley, Esq. and his son Paul, &c. : Together with several affidavits of people of worth, relating to several of the said governour's mercenary and illegal proceedings, but particularly his private treacherous correspondence with Her Majesty's enemies the French and Indians. : To which is added, a faithful, but melancholy account of several barbarities lately committed upon Her Majesty's subjects, by the said French and Indians, in the east and west parts of New-England. / Faithfully digested from the several original letters, papers, and mss. by Philopolites.
London: printed by Benjamin Harris, 1707
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Thus far the Affidavits of the Illegal and Disloyal Practices of our Governor. Can any Man that loves not a French Interest, call those Trivial; or say, they are not worthy of the severest Resentments? With what Face Men now a-days can go about to Justify Crimes that have so near an affinity to High Treason, is a wonder to me; and yet pretend at the same time to be Loyal and True to their Country. Crimes of the most pernicious Consequence to a State; and which, among all Nations, have been Punished with the utmost Severity. The Athenians, notwithstanding the Liberty they gave to some of their Rulers, yet they appointed a Reckoning Day among them; so that those that thought themselves not accountable whilst in Authority, found at last a very strict Account to be given to certain Auditors, and a worser Punishment inflicted on them if Criminal, than the abused Clemency of this Age can produce: To do Justice and Right is the most invaluable Jewel in Magna Charta; and a Blessing which no People in the World can boast of, like those of the British Nation. The New-Englanders are of the same Tribe; have the same Liberty to, and the same Property in the Enjoyment of the many Legal Privileges in that Charter contained: They are not Slaves, as their conceited Governor once told them; but have still a right Legally to oppose his Pride and Covetousness; have still a Right to Petition for a Better, that will not be Bribed to do Evil; they have a Right to tell the World, and that loudly, That for a Governor to furnish the Enemy with Powder and Shot, &c. to destroy his own Country-men, is a Wretch not only fit to be Discarded, but to be for ever forgotten among Mankind.
Thus far the Affidavits of the Illegal and Disloyal Practices of our Governour. Can any Man that loves not a French Interest, call those Trivial; or say, they are not worthy of the severest Resentments? With what Face Men now a-days can go about to Justify Crimes that have so near an affinity to High Treason, is a wonder to me; and yet pretend at the same time to be Loyal and True to their Country. Crimes of the most pernicious Consequence to a State; and which, among all Nations, have been Punish'd with the utmost Severity. The Athenians, notwithstanding the Liberty they gave to some of their Rulers, yet they appointed a Reckoning Day among them; so that those that thought themselves not accountable whilst in Authority, found at last a very strict Account to be given to certain Auditors, and a worser Punishment inflicted on them if Criminal, than the abused Clemency of this Age can produce: To do Justice and Right is the most invaluable Jewel in Magna Charta; and a Blessing which no People in the World can boast of, like those of the Brittish Nation. The New-Englanders are of the same Tribe; have the same Liberty to, and the same Property in the Enjoyment of the many Legal Priviledges in that Charter contained: They are not Slaves, as their conceited Governour once told them; but have still a right Legally to oppose his Pride and Covetousness; have still a Right to Petition for a Better, that will not be Brib'd to do Evil; they have a Right to tell the World, and that loudly, That for a Governour to furnish the Enemy with Powder and Shot, &c. to destroy his own Country-men, is a Wretch not only fit to be Discarded, but to be for ever forgotten among Mankind.