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The deplorable state of New-England, by reason of a covetous and treacherous governor, and…The deplorable state of New-England, by reason of a covetous and treacherous governour, and…
The deplorable state of New-England, by reason of a covetous and treacherous governor, and pusillanimous counsellors : with a vindication of the Honourable Mr. Higginson, Mr. Mason, and several other gentlemen, from the scandalous and wicked accusation of the votes, ordered by them to be published in their Botson [sic] news-letter. : To which is added, an account of the shameful miscarriage of the late expedition against Port-Royal.The deplorable state of New-England, by reason of a covetous and treacherous governour, and pusillanimous counsellors : with a vindication of the Honourable Mr. Higginson, Mr. Mason, and several other gentlemen, from the scandalous and wicked accusation of the votes, ordered by them to be published in their Botson [sic] news-letter. : To which is added, an account of the shameful miscarriage of the late expedition against Port-Royal.
Boston : London: printed in the year 1708. Reprinted by Samuel Kneeland?, 1721
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Tho' this Gentleman has thus recalled his Vote, (and another Gentleman present in the Council, never had a Vote put to him) and he insisted on it, as we are informed, that it would be a Direct Falsehood in Matter of Fact. Now to call this an Unanimous Vote, yet we find it was after this ordered to be printed in the Boston News Letter, with a PASSED UNANIMOUSLY. We cannot conceive how the Council could order a Direct Falsehood to be Printed, if their Souls were their own. Or, if they would so misrepresent Judge Sewall and Col. Higginson, (Brother to Mr. Nathanael Higginson) it may be they did also misrepresent themselves, in saying, they firmly Believe, when it is strange if they do really Believe it.
Notwithstanding their News-Letter says, their Vote was passed Unanimously, Worthy Gentlemen in New England have given us such a Character of their Winthrop, their Hutchinson, their Foster, and some others of them, as that we cannot Firmly Believe, that they ever consented to have the Hon Mr. Higginson so stigmatized in the Boston Infamous News Letter. Nor is it to be imagined that they are all so Paradoxical, as we hear some of them are; for you cannot with a Beetle beat it into some of them, but that if a Vote obtain a Majority, it is to be called an Unanimous Vote. We have been told, and we thought so by hearing those talk who came from thence) that they Speak as good English at Boston, as they do in London: But we perceive, in the Council Chamber there, they begin to forget the English Tongue, and they have lost the Sense of the Word Unanimous.
Notwithstanding their News-Letter says, their Vote was passed Unanimously, Worthy Gentlemen in New England have given us such a Character of their Winthrop, their Hutchinson, their Foster, and some others of them, as that we cannot Firmly Believe, that they ever consented to have the Hon Mr. Higginson so stigmatized in the Boston Infamous News Letter. Nor is it to be imagined that they are all so Parado•ical, as we hear some of them are; for you cannot with a Beetle beat it into some of them, but that if a Vote obtain a Majority, it is to be called an Unanimous Vote. We have been told, and we thought so by hearing those talk who came from thence) that they Speak as good English at Boston, as they do in London: But we perceive, in the Council Chamber there, they begin to forget the English Tongue, and they have lost the Sense of the Word Unanimous.