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12017-06-20T06:05:51-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650a72001(annotation)plain2017-06-20T06:05:51-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650aceiv’d as bribes, to injure the Proprietor? And besides that, is the new Governor, and all the retinue and dependants that may follow him, to feed upon the air? If this be the scheme, pursue it on; but if these things be impracticable, I cannot see how we shall get our present conditions mended.
I expect to be told, I am not well affected to his Majesty, as you said of some Presbyterians t’other day at the State-House, because they would not plunge themselves blindly into your measures: I suppose, however, they are very indifferent about such malicious accusations. In spite of all you can say, his Majesty will judge of your loyalty, and theirs, according to the substantial proofs you give of it, in time of danger; and not by your idle gasconade at a State-house. What under the heavens did your speaker mean, by telling us that the Proprietor has made us all slaves, and will presently bring our heads to the block? Can the proprietor take away our lives, or our liberties? Have we not a valuable Charter? Don’t we make our own laws, and sit as juries to determine upon life and property, according to these laws? The danger is from another quarter; you are the persons that have made us slaves; you have depriv’d us of charter-privileges; have made laws for us, and have offer’d to deprive us of juries, so that you might have the power to spare our lives, or take them away, at pleasure. Did the Proprietor
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12016-08-19T13:01:36-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650aThe Plain Dealer, Numb. I - 141The plain dealer: or, A few remarks upon Quaker-politicks, and their attempts to change the government of Pennsylvania. : With some observations on the false and abusive papers which they have lately publish'd. Numb. I. To be continued.2016-08-19T13:01:36-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650a
