The Plain Dealer, Numb. I - 14
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
