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U. H. J.
Liber No. 35
May 4
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Opinion you seem to be possessed with, that Pertinacity would at
length prevail against Right, Reproach extort Assent, and that it
would be more eligible to establish Error and the very inconvenient
Consequences of it in this Instance by an obstinate Adherence, than
to acknowledge it by a candid & ingenious Retractation
The Ecordium of your last Message seems calculated to cast the
Blame of mispending so much Time and public Mony in tedious and
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fruitless Sessions upon us, but pray consider what little Success will
probably attend such an Attempt if now you have our Objections you
think it incumbent upon you at all Events to disregard them? of
what Use in the Conduct of public Business can an explicit Com-
munication of our Sentiments be when after it is made your whole
Study and Views are to elude the Force of them by fallacious Reason-
ing and caption Animadversions indulge an Humour of Invective and
insult with Rudeness when you can't refute or convince by Argument.
Will you say that if we had particularly enumerated our Reasons
for rejecting your first or second Bill you would have fallen upon
some other Method of granting Mony, if not, what Obstruction of
his Majesty's Service has arisen from our omitting to send you our
Objections to your Bill before the Time we did, or what good End
would have been answered, what Part of the Expence you have
imposed upon your Constituents lessened by our taking that Step?
if you'll say that you would evince your Sincerity by doing it now.
you have now our Objections against which as you have nothing but
the weakest Cavils to advance we press you to do it by the Duty you
owe to your King and Country, we would persuade you to do it :
it will furnish you with a better Pretence for your Insinuations than
you have at present
We said in our former Message " that there were some late
Resolves of " the Lower House that we had no Right but to pass or
reject Mony Bills."
Your Answer to this is that We do not recollect any Resolves of
this House in the Words you mention, but whatever they may be
you must know that they were " made not to extend but to confirm
our own Rights and Priviledges &c." perhaps there may be some very
nice Distinction between the Lower House and this Lower House,
and what may have been done in a former Session by the same
Members is not to be imputed to them in this, but you have not
denied, nor can you deny the Fact mentioned in our Message that
the Lower House had lately resolved " we had no Right but to pass
or reject Mony Bills."
You are pleased to inform us of the Difference between Resolves
of the Lower House to confirm and extend the Privileges you claim.
We are obliged to confess tho' you say we must know it, that we
don't understand it. We can't easily conceive how your Resolves
penned by yourselves without any expressed or implied Concurrence
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