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A Dialogue, Containing Some Reflections on the Late "Declaration and Remonstrance" - 10

Lovell. Well Mr. Positive, since it offends you so much, I will drop this Subject of our Discourse, and come to a Conclusion, as you harden your Mind against Conviction, and obstinately refuse Reproof. Therefore, a few Remarks more, and I have done: as to the great Expence you complain of, are not you yourselves the absolute Cause of it? Is it not to the Horror of the Government? And did not you oblige them to take those distressed People under their fatherly Protection, to save a considerable Number from Destruction? And where could they be safer than here, from the Fury and Rage of an incensed, riotous and lawless Mob? You are the last that should complain of this Expence, as you yourselves are the Occasion of it. And further, the Necessity of keeping them here, evidently appears from your insolent and daring Confession in the four last Lines of your Declaration: It is this (you say) we design, it is this we are resolv'd to prosecute, &.----Yes, yes, if we may judge of your future, by your late treasonable Conduct, we may take your Word for it, without swearing to it: And, to make Use of your own Words above, Will not the good Inhabitants of this Province, and all well-disposed People, awaken to Resentment, and put themselves in Readiness to repel, if fair Argument won't do\ I say, repel Force to Force, and severely chastise such lawless Rioters; who, in the Conclusion of their Threatenings and Demands pretend to say, though in Contradiction to their Actions, GOD SAVE THE KING. ----What unprejudiced impartial Man, after a deliberate Reflection on all they have done and said, will view their Declaration in any other Light than a sophistical Piece of Irony, artfully insinuating into the Minds of the Ignorant and Vulgar, that they are, as they say in another Place, attach'd to the Person and Reign of our dear Sovereign King George the Third?----Is not their Conduct too much like that notorious wicked Traytor who at the Head of a tumultuous Mob, came up to his Lord with a Hail Master, and kissed him?
Posit. I’ll hear no more: You would make us out to be a Set of vile People.

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