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U. H. J.
Liber No. 36
Nov. 26
p. 189
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representation, (unless we Misrepresent you by expressing ourselves
in such a manner as implies an Opinion that you do your Duty: We
are persuadetd that our Conduct in retaining the Bill is Strictly
defensible upon the Authority of the most reasonable Precedents, and
tho it is not without some concern, that we Observe the querulous
Disposition it has excited, yet we must take the Liberty at the same
time to intimate, that the Priviledge we have Asserted (which you
hardly attempt to impugn by your last Message), tho you Signify
some dislike of it) We shall at all times for the future exercise when
we shall think it expedient, without being deterred by the appre-
hension of injurious Imputations and groundless Reproaches, Our
Right being Settled, the Indignity offered in proposing that a Copy
of the Bill be delivered by our Clerk to yours for its Publication, will
appear to be no more, than uncovering, and obviating your Pretence,
and vindicating and preserving our Right.
Signed p Order John Ross Clk. Up.r Ho.
The following Message is Sent By Benedict Calvert Esq.r
By the Upper House of Assembly 26.th Nov.r 1763
Gentlemen
You having thought proper to blend your own Conduct with that
of former Assemblies, and to make their Resolves the Basis of your
Proceedings, we are necessarily led to take notice of what they have
done, in order to explain the views and motives by which the two
Houses are influenced at this time when these are attended to, we
Expect that the Expediency of what we Proposed in our Message
of the 22.d Instant will be Sufficiently evident — When the Ravages
committed by the Savages on our Frontiers, and the distressed Situa-
tion of the Inhabitants of those Parts pointed out the necessity of an
Armed Force to repell the Invaders, and Protect our fellow Subjects,
and it was found that all the arguments of compassion, and Duty were
in vain urged to your House, The Governor was put to the disagree-
able necessity of Exercising his Authority over the Militia, and
ordering them upon actual Service This step which the daily Murders,
and depredations committed by the Enemy, and the inability of the
Frontier People to Defend Themselves, renderd unavoidable, Your
House thought fit to arraign, and censure, & that Power which y.e
Duty of the Governors Station constrained Him to exercise, great
Pains were taken to represent as a wanton Oppression, and violation
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p. 190
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of the Laws with this Spirit, Resolves were passed and published &
propagated, Resolves Calculated to Produce Disquiet in the minds of
the People, & Shake their Obedience to Government, and in Pro-
portion to these Effects, to expose Them to the merciless Rage of a
Savage Enemy. Consistent with this view of weakening the Sanction
of the Militia Law and palliating a Conduct in your Predecessors
extremely reprehensible, when ever your House has thought proper,
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