American Patriotism: Speeches, Letters, and Other Papers Which Illustrate, the Foundation, the Development, the Preservation of the United States of America (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from American Patriotism: Speeches, Letters, and Other Papers Which Illustrate, the Foundation, the Development, the Preservation of the United States of America

Gentlemen - Your being chosen by the freeholders and inhabitants of the Town of Boston to represent them in the General Assembly the ensuing year, affords you the strongest testimony of that confi dence which they place in your integrity and capacity. By this choice they have delegated to you the power of acting in their public concerns in general as your own prudence shall direct you, always reserving to themselves the constitutional right of expressing their mind, and giv ing you such instructions upon particular matters as they at any time shall judge proper.

We therefore, your constituents, take this opportunity to declare our just expectations from you, that you will constantly use your power and influence in maintaining the valuable rights and privileges of the province, of which this town is so great a part, as well those rights which are derived to us by the royal charter, as those which being prior to and independent Of it, we hold essentially as free-born subjects of Great Britain.

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