Cool Thoughts on the Present Situation of Our Public Affairs - 5
LETTER
TO A
FRIEND in the COUNTRY.
Philadelphia, April 12, 1764
SIR,
YOUR Apology was unnecessary. It will be no Trouble, but a Pleasure, if I can give you the Satisfaction you desire. I shall therefore immediately communicate to you my motives for approving the Proposal of endeavouring to obtain a Royal Government, in Exchange for this of the Proprietaries; with such Answers to the Objections you mention, as, in my Opinion, fully obviate them.
I do not purpose entering into the Merits of the Disputes between the Proprietaries and the People: I only observe it as a Fact known to us All, that such Disputes there are, and that they have long subsisted, greatly to the Prejudice of the Province, clogging and embarrassing all the Wheels of Government, and exceedingly obstructing the publick Defence, and the Measures
