Governor in the Speaker's chair, and then there would be no wat of time in going from house to house, and his honour would have the pleasure to see how zealous his former enemies are in promoting his interest to serve themselves. Is this a state to be rested in, when our all is at a stake 1 No, my countrymen, rouse ! Imitate the noble example of the friends of liberty in England ; wlio, rather than be enslaved, contend for their right with k -- g, lords and commons. And will you suffer your liberties to be torn from you, by your representatives ? Tell it not in Boston ; publish it not in the streets of Charles-Town ! You have means yet left to preserve a unanimity with the brave

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Bostonians and Carolinians; and to prevent the accomplishment of the designs of tyrants. The house was so nearly divided, on the subject of granting the money in the way the vote passed, that one would have prevented it ; you have, therefore, a respectable minority. What I would advise to be done is, to assemble in the fields, on Monday next, where your sense ought to be taken on this important point ; notwithstanding the impudence of Mr. Jauncey, in liis declaring in the house that he had consulted liis constituents, and that they were for giving money. After this is done, go in a body to your members, and insist on their joining with the minority, to oppose the bill ; if they dare refuse your just requisition, appoint a committee to draw up a state of the whole matter, and send it to the speakers of the several houses of assembly on the continent, and to the friends of our cause in England, and publish it in tlie news-papers, that the whole world may know your sentiments on this matter, in the only way your circumstance will admit.