Colonies, were, at the time of their emigration from the Mother-country, entitled to all the rights, liberties, and immunities of free and natural-born ſubjects within the realm of England.
This likewiſe is true; but when this is granted, their boaſt of original rights is at an end; they are no longer in a State of Nature. Theſe lords of themſelves, theſe kings of Me, theſe demigods of independence, ſink down to Coloniſts, governed by a Charter. If their anceſtors were ſubjects, they acknowledged a Sovereign; if they had a right to Engliſh privileges, they were accountable to Engliſh laws, and what muſt grieve the Lover of Liberty to diſcover, had ceded to the King and Parliament, whether the right or not, at lead the power of diſpoſing, without their conſent, of their lives, liberties, and properties. It therefore is required of them to prove, that the Parliament ever ceded to them a diſpenſation from that obedience, which they
