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A Letter From a Gentleman in Transilvania to his Friend in America - 8
12017-03-19T08:02:57-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650a72001(annotation)plain2017-03-19T08:02:57-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650aThe Generality for the Council heartily concurr’d with his Excellency the Waywode; but when it came to Counsellor Wiseman to give his opinion, he beg’d leave to dissent from the rest of the board; and hoped his Excellency wou’d, with that attention and deliberation for which he was remarkable, hearken to his reasons.
He told his Excellency, he hoped he wou’d excuse him, if he differ’d with him in some of the Political Observations he had just now made; and unto which Messiurs Simpleton, Prigg, Beau, and Brainless his Brother Counsellors had signified their approbation. He told him that as he had been but a short time Vice-Roy of the province he ought to use every method in his power to cultivate a good understanding with the people;-----that as a spirit of Freedom had drawn them from all Nations to populate such an extensive province, stripping them of their rights and privileges, was not the way of either gaining the good opinion of those who were wavering, or of bringing them back that were the most seditious; that tho’ his Excellency was sensible, how little either himself, or the Council troubled themselves about what was called Religion, yet (as he very well knew] there was a necessity of keeping up external appearances, and that it was a useful engine to keep the Vulgar in awe;-----that if therefore he abandoned the profession of it, he wou’d be held in universal, disesteeme by all its Professors;---that if he appeared more zealous for one sect than another, a general Jealousy wou’d take place among the rest, and perhaps unite them all against him; that if
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12016-08-19T13:00:59-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650aA Letter From a Gentleman in Transilvania to his Friend in America - 81A letter from a gentleman in Transilvania to his friend in America : giving some account of the late disturbances that have happen'd in that government, with some remarks upon the political revolutions in the magistracy, and the debates that happened about the change. Humbly inscribed to Counsellor Quondam by his friend Isaac Bickerstaff, of the Middle Temple.2016-08-19T13:00:59-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650a
