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GEORGIA GAZETTE.
Number 7a.
The HUGONOf. No. 178.
Points of View for the People of Eng!andi
B Celebrated writer has advanced, that
whenever the Liberty of the Press was
taken away, it would be taken away all
at once. But the event (hews, that he was
miltaken. The liberty of the Press is
not an indivisible quantity * but a quan
tity composed of a great number of
parts; and all these parts may beftolen,
|>r, which is the fame thing, menaced away one after the other.
The Press of England is not now as free as it was in the
days of Walpole: Things were wrote then t that no one
Would dare to write now. We may write in defence of Li
berty to a certain point; beyond this point, the mod inno
cent things are libels, breaches of privilege, and even trea
son.
Whenever the day comes, that Englifli liberty is at its
lad ebb, then every thing will be tortured or
breach of privilege : printers will be fined* imprisoned,
and beggar’d—They will not dare to complain—When
they are reduced to beggary and bondage, and that their
fellow-citizens will alk the cause, they will answer We
* dare not tell—there is no playing with edg’d tools—a burnt
* child dreads the fire.*
11. Though cabals, clamours, and jealousies are requisite
in a free country, national parties and national divisions are
not. The growing enmity between the Scotch and Englidi
may one time or other produce fatal consequences. The
no way of doing'it hut BritcjT wilTne vCr befutisfiedj
that they fttoaubbsigoveniod by any-man but a Briton. * H
think they have reason on their fide* While they have pprfons*
Os equal capacity among themfetves, to govern in thcdi(Fe**J
rent departments of the Sate, it il-degrading themfelvds, and*
vilifying the ttame of Briton, to indure that any man. but sr
Briton mouM bfe employed.
I enter into thde reflections, as touch for the fakeof’the
Scotch, ,as for that of the Englilh: and the reason ought to/
be plain to every nun of good fen (c. If the Sdottiih plan of
nfurpiug all the employments of the State fuccccds, I fay,*
yfcat’Scotland hi undone. The BrtgiHb are n jealous and’
.vindictive people: If ever they should find themselves outWi
vritted; if ever they should find* that whenever they looked* 4
up, they could fiee nothing but a Scotchman over thetir heads,* 1
they would, in all appearance,.grow dtfperate, pull down e
verv Scot, and difiblve the Union. V* ‘
‘ On the other hand, I think that every employment in
Scotland ought,—Tome few perhaps excepted,—to be con
ferred upon the natives. Tie trade of Scotland ought to be
extended: Every national grievaneowhich theyjuftly com- 4
plain of, ought to be redrelod. If this be done, they fhaH
have foraethtng to dost homc; they win not be caballing
sot
di (contents, and checking nfjsirit of ifaprovinifeittand emu
lation in the breads, bf tfief&ngKih youth, to Whom they (hall
leave nothing to Rope in a little time, but the gleanings of a
Scotch harvest. - ‘_• •
111. In Ireland the rage and fanaticifm of party have no
limits. The savage cruelties, exertifed upon the Roman
tatholicks of tfatScingdfltn, are a di (honour to the English
Ration, because the English nation permits it. These poof
victims me eentiramlly bqpt on the rack, under the vile and
falfe pretext that ty-ane enemies to the prefect govern-
their bifidnll for 70 yOltrs past prove# the con
trary. ‘ But the truth*Hjj'ivfiy are too optcli injured ever to
be forgpmi. They hnvn been robbed, pillaged, and dffpof
fe%dofawmf'thing.bat<bd**r they breath, and tht'ciMC^
T H V R S D AY, August 16, 1764,
ated limbs they work with. To jullify all these cruelties,
they are loaded with calumny and invedive. At one time
it is said that their forefathers were rebels.—Alas, they only
did what Englishmen would do in their places—they /ought
for liberty. At another time, it is said, they profefs a reli
gion that makes them enemies to civil liberty, and (laves to
papal dominion. The falfhood of this accusation is so glar
ing, that no unprejudiced person will ever lay the leaf! ftrefe
upon it. Are not the politicks of the court of Rome become
an object of contempt to all the Roman catholicks of the con
tinent ? Are the Roman Catholicks of these three kingdoms
formed of materials different from the rest of mankind ?
Another Reason—but the true and perhaps foie reafon—
of the animosity ngainft them, is little apprehended. The
Protestants of Ireland begin, of late years, to be tired of the
yoke of England. A hard yoke it is, no doubt, in many
refpe&s. The Protestants of Ireland are fhamefully, and
meanly tyrannized over in point of trade and commerce.
There is not a blow they receive from us that they do not re
turn ten fold upon their (laves. And why l Because thofo
(laves are not Protestants, and because if they were all Pro
testants in that kingdom, the leaders of the Protestant party
would have it in their power to (hake off the Englidi yoke,
or to insist on better terms.
The proof is evident. Men are naturally fond of indc*
pendency) and the Protestants of Ireland think thetnielvcs as
much inti tied to the bleflxnes of a free coaftitnuon as* the
Englidi.
Now cannot there be fome method found for Uniting the
[sMpe/ bf three nations as well as their tongues f The hyf+-
[ critical union that fubfids between them at present, will on*
1 day or other burd into tempests, if fome great and good mi
► niitry do not employ fome lenient methods to reconcile all
* parties. Such a Ministry will content the Protestants of ire*
> land, by extending their commerce within and without thf
kingdom. This can be done without any prejudice to Eng
land. The prosperity of Ireland and Scotland, instead of
weakening the trade of.England, will augment it.
IV. A great and good Ministry will extend their views
beyond the present fccne of mortality. They will be convin
ced, that One cannot serve a King in oppoution to the will
Jof the Maker of Kings 5 nor serve his country by involving
ft in the guilt of perjury, sacrilege, and rapine. .
M These horrors all three are (an&ified by law in Ireland,
Roman Catholick who lends money to a Protestant, has n
to fecurethe payment of it.
L Roman Catholick who swears away a religion he believes,
and who conforms to a religion he doesnot believe, may rob
s whole family by law, and plunge it in beggary and
tain. A thousand other ads of Parliament equally cruel
Lid unjust, are levelled at these poor wretches. All tha
guilt falls on the neck of this nation. These are things that
3i (honour this nation, that di(honoor human nature. Thefts
■k things that will be immediately put an end to, if we an
gler but one plain question to our consciences: At e theft things
Mtfomtable to the spirit of the Go/pel, and the will of its Founder F
flke day will come when this question will be a(ked in thun
dit by the voice of Omnipotence. It will be afited, why
did you open your ears to the voice of eccleftaftica! calumny
tafi party rage, and (hut them to the groans of humanity ana
tfc/voice of nature.—But no more on this head.
V. Our own interest is concerned in putting a period to
tbtfifferings of an innocent people. The spirit of liberty and
Mvlhinking that is riftng among the French nation, ought
to h| a greater alarm to England than the landing of an army
otf Our coast. The Jesuits are baniftied—what if the French
(hake off the papal yoke for good—allow, upon the plan of
pagan Rome, univ'erfal liberty of conscience, and set qp
I'Afew religion l The E/pnti ferts, the Philofophcr# of