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561] TheEnglish Statutes in Maryland. 97 p. 22 them at his Court. Cerealis, in Tacitus, thus addresses the Gauls; "You yourselves generally command our Legions, you govern "these, and the other Provinces; you are denied or debarr'd of "nothing: Wherefore love and value that Peace and Life, which the " Conquerors, and Conquered enjoy equally. Polibius admires the " Moderation of Antigonus, that when he had Sparta in his Power, "he left to the Citizens their antient Government and Liberty; " which Act acquired him Praise throughout Greece. " Thus the Capadocians were permitted by the Romans, to use '' what Form of Government they pleased, and many Nations after " the War, were left free. Cartilage was left free, to be govern'd by "' her own Laws, as the Rhodians pleaded to the Romans after the '' 2d. Punick War; And Pompey (says Appian) of the Conquer'd " Nations, left some free to their own Laws. Thus the Govern- ment continued among the Jews in the Sanhedrin. even after the Confiscation of Archelaus. "When all Empire is taken away from'the Conquer'd. there may " be left them their ordinary Laws about their private and puiiiick " Affairs, and their own Customs and Magistrates. Thus Pliny's " Epistles tell us, that in Bithynia, a Proconsular Province, the City " of Apamea was indulged to govern their State as they pleased " themselves. And in another Place the Bithynians had their own " Magistrates, their own Senate. So in Poictus the Cuy of the " Amisni. by the Favour of Lucullus, was allowed its own Laws, " The Goths left their own Laws to the. Conquered Romans. We " read in Salust, the Romans chose rather to gain Friends than " Slaves, and thought it safer to govern by Love than Fear. Julius '' Caesar told Ariovistus * that Fabius Maximus fairly Conquered " the People of Auvergne and Rouerge, whom he might have re- " duced into a Province, and made Tributaries So the Empire. But " he forgave them (*) Caesar's Commentaries. p. 23 " and did not doubt, but it might be easily prov'd, upon further 'Search into Antiquity, that the Romans had a very good The to "that Country: But since it was the Pleasure of the Senate they " should remain a Free People, they were permitted the Use of their " own Laws, Government, and Customs." Critognatus, the Gaul, thought he could not use a more favourable or prevailing Argu- ment with his Countrymen, to encourage and unite them against the Romans, than to tell them that the Romans design'd to possess |
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