THAT the unsettled State of the Currency has been the Occasion of great Inconveniency to this Province, and was once within View of its Ruine, I believe there are but few disinter­ested Men that will deny: And I conceive the Paper-Money at this time is very far from being on so good an Establishment as it might be, and that some Persons are so far from wanting it to be put on a better Foot­ing, that they had rather it were all destroy'd. I shall therefore endeavour to shew, that there is a Necessity for some Currency, and that that Currency, by the Nature of our Trade, cannot be Silver or Gold: That Pa­per-Money will answer all the Ends, that any other Money will, for a Medium of Trade. And then I shall propose a Method for establishing it on a firm and lasting Foundation; and examine the Consequences thereof to this Province, and the Effects it may have on the Trade of Great Britain.

[Page 4]If any should say that we have no necessity for Currency at all, but that our Trade may as well be carried on by Barter: To him I answer. He that has well considered the Inconveniencies that attend that Method, I am of Opinion, will not be fond of it long.

By Barter you can neither sell, nor buy, but once a Year, except from the Stores, that are up and down the Country, and you must be at their Mercy, not on­ly for the prices of their Goods, but of your own too: And they will generally get more by sending them from the Ship to the Store, than the Merchant in En­gland gets by transporting them from England hither.

Besides we have several Instances, that the Coun­try-Stores have left many Families, which had several Negroes, without scarce a Negro to help them. And I believe had it not been for an extraordinary Occur­rence, it had been much worse.

Again, a Barter-Trade doth, I conceive, tend to the Ruine of all the Towns in the Province; and the People will live scatter'd about; only with a few Tra­ding-Houses amongst them, to the great Discourage­ment of foreign Trade, and the great perplexity and Inconveniency of the Trader.

And farther, Trading by Barter doth tend to lodge the greatest part of the Riches of a Province in a few Hands, and the Consequences of that will be, the ma­king the poorer sort very base and mean, so that, to use My Lord Bacon's Words, the one fiftieth Man of them, will not be fit for a Helmet: And I think it much concerns the Interest of this Province, to keep up the Spirits of the lower sort of People, for we have much reason to expect great Use of them e're long, both from those among us, and those behind us. [Page 5]If you have a Barter-Trade, a Man cannot hire a poor Man, and pay him his Wages when he has done his Work, but he must go to the Stores, and take per­haps what he doth not want; and the Store-Keeper will get so much out of his Wages as will almost starve him.

And I am apt to think every Man, tho' he had no po­litical or Religious Views, should think it the Interest of his Family, to have provision made, to keep the poorer sort of them from Oppression to Posterity: For we have many Instances amongst us, of those whose Fathers in the last Age were rich enough, altho' they have little or nothing now. And no Man knows, (such is the Vicissitude of Human Affairs) what his Family may come too. If his Family be very great, it is probable some of them will e're long be of the poorer sort, and the providing for them (and with them the Poor, in general,) is the most Beneficent Thing a Man can do. The Rich, he need not doubt, will know well enough how to provide for themselves. Then on the other side, Men of over-grown-Estates, none ought to be fond of, no not even among Princes: For if great Parts, great Ambition and great Valour should happen to meet in the same Person, the World has had Instances enough, what they are then to ex­pect. So that I take it to be the Interest of America, and, I apprehend also, the Policy of England, to keep the Wealth of America, as near as can be, on a Par, a­mongst the British Subjects.

If any should say, These are Consequences that cannot affect this Age: Perhaps they may not; but great Alterations in States are generally the Effects of the Councils of preceeding Ages, and wise Governments [Page 6]always consider what Effect their Transactions may have on Posterity.

Now I shall endeavour to shew, that by the Nature of our Trade, this Currency cannot be Silver or Gold. For supposing we now had a sufficient Quantity of Gold and Silver for a Medium of Trade, our Trade is such, that the British Ships always do or can bring in more in Value of the British Commodities, than their Ships will carry back in our Produce. Now this Overplus, or the Ballance of the Account, the Trader, when his Ship is loaded with our Produce, will carry away in our Money, this would soon drain us of all our Money, unless we had Mines, or some Trade, the Returns whereof, in Silver, would be answerable to the Ballance of our Trade with England, which we have not.

There is another Reason, why Silver will never re­main here long, which is, that the Trader will always carry away our Money, instead of our Produce, when­soever Money will answer his Ends better in Europe, and leave our Produce to perish on our Hands, to the great Detriment both of England and this Province, as I shall endeavour to shew hereafter; and this can­not be prevented by Law, no, altho' you should make it Death.

But it may be said, that formerly Silver was very plenty here. I answer thereto, the Trade then of this Province was very inconsiderable, to what it is now, and the Returns then made to Europe, were chiefly in Skins, which Skins were then of a great Value, and a Ship would carry a great Quantity of them. Also the Privateers brought in great Quantities of Spanish Silver, and we likewise sent a considerable Quantity of [Page 7]Beef, Pork and Pease to the Islands, which brought us in, besides what we wanted of their Produce, a great Deal of Silver; so it is no worder that Silver was then plenty here: But this is all ceased, and not to be expected again. And now if we will have any Cur­rency, we must look some other way; and I think we cannot find a better than our Paper-Bills, as being a Currency, which will never be carried away from us, and prevent the Inconveniencies that will follow from the coming and going of our Currency, and which we have found, by so many Years experience, to answer the Ends of any other Currency, for the Ease and Advantage both of Buyer and Seller, of the Foreign and Domestick Trader. For this you may buy, what­ever can be got for any Money in this Province; nay, even Gold and Silver it self.

But because there has been great Noise and Clamour against those Paper-Bills by some Persons, for no other Reason, that I could ever see, than that if they could have got them destroy'd, they would have made their Estates five or six times as good; and by others, be­cause they did not know what they talked of, but to keep up the Clamour, I shall endeavour to trace those Bills from their beginning, and make such Observa­tions as shall occur as I pass along.

And here I would have it observ'd, that I shall on­ly relate what my Memory will readily suggest, having no other way at present to be inform'd, tho' I question not but there are Persons enough still living, who can testifie, that I am pretty near the Truth.

Those Bills, as I have been inform'd, were first made soon after the St. Augustine Expedition, which, if I am not mistaken, was about the Year 1701, or [Page 8]1702. The Quantity then made, was according to my Information Four or Five Thousand Pounds, and those pass'd currant, as Silver, so that I remember in 1711, or 1712 I had a Piece of Eight for a Crown-Bill; then Pitch and Rice were from 15 s. to 17 s. 6 d. or there about.

In 1712, or 1713 there were 52,000 Pounds made, and let out on Interest, which was of vast Advantage to many Men, and of great Use to the Country; and Rice and Pitch continued, until the Indian War, not to exceed 22 s. 6 d. the highest, notwithstanding great Quantities of both those Commodities began to be then made. In the Year 1715 began the Indian War, which was the greatest Calamity that ever happened, not on­ly to the Country, but to our Bills also. For the In­dians now rising up in Arms against us on every side, put the Country into such a Consternation, that the Thoughts of a great many were more, how they should secure somewhat in some other place, and to get away if they could, than to stay here to defend the Country. And many persons, nay even from Charles-Town, who could not go themselves, sent their Wives and Fami­lies off to the Northern Colonies. So that those who had Paper-Bills in their Hands, would give any Price either for Silver or Gold, or our Produce, to send with their Families to provide for them, and to settle them in some other place, if they should be forc'd to leave this Province. By this means our Bills were so much depreciated in their Value, that they were not worth above the one fourth part of what they had been.

Besides the Foreign Merchants, who had any effects here, gave Orders to their Factors, to remit those Ef­fects to them; and a great many had their Effects sent [Page 9]them, I believe to their great Loss, and to almost the ruine of many, at a time too, when a great part of the Province were drove from their Settlements, and those who could stay at their Houses, were obliged to appear in Arms, so that there was but very little Produce made, and for that which was made, the Owner might get almost what price he pleased. Then did the As­sembly likewise stamp more Bills, in order to pay the publick Debts, which Bills they entred into Measures to sink again, so that some were sunk and others not, according to those Laws. Moreover Laws were made to issue out Rice Notes on Interest, and then other Laws to take that Interest away; and thus it was dis­tracted between sinking and making for several Years, till at last, in General Nicholson's time there came out a Proclamation, to put the Laws in Execution, for sinking the Money, which would have sunk all the Money in the Province, excepting about 50,000 l. But he notwithstanding pass'd a Law to continue it, for some time longer, which diverted the Storm for that Season. At length the sinking it was to have been finish'd, all except 50,000 l. when there were ma­ny Men in the Province who could have put it all into their Chests, & this at a time too, when the Bounty was taken off our Pitch, and that Trade almost ceased with it: At the same time our Rice Crops fell very short, and the Country vastly in Debt, and what made our Case still worse, there was nothing substitu­ted in the room of our Bills, to pay our Debts with Nay, our — were so stiff, that they would not declare, even Silver, or Gold, at any rate a legal Tender, and there was then no other Legal Money in the Province: Besides, I much question, [Page 10]whether Proclamation or Sterling would have satis­fied some Creditors, for their Demands seemed to rise very fast, and if those Debts had been to be levied by Execution, (for the People could hardly have paid their Debts otherwise, unless they had sold their Slaves at Vendue) this would not only have sunk the Money, but the Country with it; but, thanks be to God, I hope this is prevented.

Now let any disinterested Man consider, how our Money has been serv'd, what by sinking it, and then passing it, sometimes making it more, at other times less, one while Interest, another while none, and then the Fa­ctions here about it, according as Mens Interests were for or against it's encreasing or not; and then again their Writing to England, to endeavour to disgrace it there, all this was enough to perplex and distract us, tho' we had had the best Money in the World: When any unbias'd Person, I say, has considered what I have here advanced, I think he will plainly see, that the Calamities, which have happened to our Money, have not been from the Nature of Paper-Money itself, but from the Indian War, and the ill Management it has met with since, by shifting it into so many Shapes.

Notwithstanding all this, our Money has kept near the same Value, for these Ten or Twelve Years last past: Nay, altho' there has been of late as much more added to it; for the Merchants Notes, for which they have 10 per Cent Interest, are 40- or 50,000 l. and the Publick Orders, for which they give 5 per Cent, are I think Sixty odd Thousand Pounds, (a Thing which may look somewhat unaccountable to a Stranger) so that there is upwards of One hundred thousand Pounds added to our Currency, nevertheless it has had no Ef­fect [Page 11]on our Exchange: I am sure, the Prices of our Commodities are not advanced by it. So that it is plain from Experience, it is not making move Money, (provided you do not make more than is convenient for a Medium to carry on our Trade) but it is the shifting it into so many Shapes, as I said before, which is the Prejudice both to the Planter and Trader: Nei­ther is it material what it is made of, provided it be done by common consent.

There are strange Notions in the World, concerning Money, as if nothing but Silver and Gold were fit for it; but the Use of it is only to carry on Trade with more Ease among Mankind, for which Silver and Gold have got the general Consent. But if Paper, or Leather, or any other Thing, had as general a Con­sent, it would answer the same End as well. It is not in the Power of any Person, or Country, I think, to alter this general Consent, but only Time and Custom: Yet any Country by Laws and common Consent, a­mongst themselves, may make any Thing else answer the very same as Silver, or Gold, for a Medium of Trade, within themselves. As for Foreign Trade, that is carried on by exchanging the Produce or Ma­nufacture of one Country for another.

Silver or Gold, or any other Money, are not abso­lutely necessary to the happiness of Human Life, al­tho' it be convenient and much easier for the Trans­acting of the Affairs amongst Mankind: But it is a Fancy to think, that nothing but Silver and Gold will do. Whatever will procure a private Man Necessa­ries for himself and Family, is a good to him as Sil­ver or Gold: For he can neither eat it, nor drink it, nor wear it; and whatever will procure a Prince wherewith [Page 12]to support and defend his State, is as good as Silver or Gold to him also.

I think I need not have said half so much on this Head, because Experience demonstrates it; but I find it very difficult for some Persons, to reconcile the Idea of Money with any Thing besides Silver and Gold.

The next Thing which I proposed was, to offer my Thoughts on a Method, for Establishing this Paper-Currency on a lasting Foundation, and in this I think there is no great Difficulty: For let a Law be made, to provide for the stamping of a sufficient Quantity of Bills, suppose 250 or 300,000 Pounds, let this Money be lent out on Interest, as much to every Man, as shall be thought convenient, upon sufficient Security; let this Law be made here by common Consent, and let it be sent home, to have the Royal Assent; and let it likewise be unlimited, so that it be not altered, until it be done again by common Consent, and let this be kept as a constant Currency, until they can find somewhat bet­ter to substitute in its room: For to destroy the Mo­ney of any place, and substitute nothing in the 100m of it, is, I think, a preposterous Way of acting, and enough to involve any Place into Confusion. Besides, part of the Interest of this Money so lett out, may be applied towards the calling in the old Bills, until all the Money of the Province is upon one Foundation.

If the Sum of Three Hundred Thousand Pounds should be made, that, at 10 per Cent, will bring in Thirty Thousand Pounds per Annum, enough suffici­ently to defray the ordinary Charges of the Go­vernment, and be of great Use to many private Per­sons; tho' I think it would be much better that the Interest should not be so high, because it is (as times [Page 13]are,) more than can well be made of it; and if it be put at a lower Rate, it will be a means to lower all the Interest throughout the Province: For all Persons, ex­cept the immediate Gainers, must look upon high In­terest as a prejudice to any Country: It makes the rich Man, who should lay Schemes for Improvement, last, and the middle sort work as it were in the Fire, so that their Affairs will not admit them to go upon any new Method, for improving and enriching the Province; if they suffer a few Losses, they are thereby soon ruin'd. Besides it is better that the People should pay some Taxes, than that the Interest of Money should be high: For, to have no publick Taxes, will make the People resty, when there is occasion; and too heavy Taxes eat out their very Victuals.

All Governments, I think, ought to take care, not to taxe their People beyond their Abilities, altho' it may be generally necessary and expedient, to lay some Kind of Tax upon them, yet it ought to be as easy as the Circumstances of Affairs will possibly admit.

By this Method, which I have proposed, the Cur­rency will be no longer a publick Debt, but every pri­vate Man's Estate (who takes up the Money) will be bound for the Payment of it: In what? Why in Bills: For if I pay it in Bills, and am forc'd to give as much Rice, Pitch, or Silver for those Bills, and if those Bills will fetch as much Rice, Pitch, or Silver to the Pos­sessor of them, as their Value is: Is it not to all Intents and Purposes the same, as if I paid it in either of those Commodities? But because the Stress of the whole Scheme lyeth here, I shall endeavour to search this Matter to the Bottom.

When the Publick lends this Money out, every [Page 14]Man takes as much as will discharge an equal Debt, or purchase him as many Commodities, as so much Rice, Pitch, or Silver; hereby the Creditor or Trader is not injured, by reason, he can command as much Rice, Pitch, or Silver, whenever he pleases, as we see from every days Experience. That is true, say some, but how will it be at the winding up of the Clew? Why the winding up of the Clew will be this, when e­ver it shall be thought fit, that those Bills shall pur­chase Rice, Pitch, or Silver no longer, then he that is Possessor of those Bills, will go to the Treasurer, and say, Here I have so many of those Bills, and they will purchase me nothing, now, what must I do with them? The Treasurer will answer, I have such and such Se­curity for the paying in of those Bills by such a Time, and if they are not paid, I shall sue for them, now they must be forc'd to give you so much Rice, or Pitch, or Silver, as they are worth, in order to pay me: For if I sue, I must not only have the Bills, but they must pay the Costs of Suit.

One Example I imagine will clearly illustrate this Matter. A Creditor comes to a Debtor for his Mo­ney, the Debtor goes to his Neighbour to borrow it, his Neighbour says, I have not the Money: But I will give this Gentleman my Note for the Money, if he will take that; the Creditor is content to take the Note, and gives the Debtor a Receipt, and the Debtor is discharg'd from that Man. Well, but, says the Neighbour, you must give me Security, that you will bring me my Note again by such a Time: Content, says the other. Now, perhaps this Note has gone through Twenty Hands, since it went from the first Giver of it, but whoever is Possessor of that Note, [Page 15]when the first Giver wants it, will never part with it, until he has the first Value of it: If the first Debtor will not bring the Note, it is true, he, i. e. Neighbour must pay it himself; but then he will sue his Security and recover his Damage, because the Note was not brought according to the Agreement. I think this wants no Explanation.

But now the Case is very different as to the present Money: For if that Proclamation which came over from England, in Governor Nicholson's time, had been put in Execution, the Bills would have sunk in every Mans Hands who possess'd them.

I have not descended to every Minute particular, that may be necessary in such a Bill, for if this Method should be thought feasible, that will easily occur to a­ny Man's Imagination, and to have been particular, it would have been necessary to enquire into all the Cir­cumstances of the present Currency.

All that remains now in the Prosecution of my first Design is, to enquire what Effect this may have on this Province of South-Carolina, and the Trade of Great Britain.

As to the Effects of Paper-Money here, one would think I should have no occasion to say any Thing a­bout it, because the Effects thereof have been so visi­ble to the Advantage of this Province: For let any Man look round him, and observe the vast Improve­ment made in this Country, for those Ten or Twelve Years last past, which was, in a great measure, owing to our Paper-Currency, as might easily be shewed; and then let him consider, that when our Money has been near sinking, how the Country has dwindled, and as it were pined after it: And now again, when our Mo­ney [Page 16]is a little help'd, the Country is, I thank God, in very flourishing Circumstances. So that, if I went no further than Experience, it is very evident, that Paper-Money is for the Advantage of this Province.

I believe there are but few Traders, who are not perswaded, that plenty of Money is a vast Ease to Trade in any Country, and I think I have made it appear, that this Paper-Money is as good as Silver, for a Medium of Trade; but I think it is far better in relation to the Trade of this Province of South Caro­lina, especially if it were on the footing I propose: For had we Silver, the Traders, whensoever it suited their Interest, would carry off our Money, instead of our Produce, (as I said before) and this would have these Inconveniencies, that by this Means our Curren­cy would be lessened, and in such fluctuating Circum­stances, as would much perplex us; or rather it would be soon brought to nothing, and we should be left to shift without it, to the destroying of our Towns, and the Ruin of our ordinary and poor People, and I think [...] the great Damage of the British Trade; but of this hereafter. Add to this, that the carrying away our Money, and lessening our Currency, would not be the only Inconveniencies, but our Goods would be left here, to perish on our Hands, which would soon make us wary of making them, and put us upon a Necessi­ty of making our own Clothes, and our own Liquor, within our selves, which, I think, would not then be so much for our Advantage as it is at present for us to buy them.

But there is another Advantage from these Paper-Bills to this Province, upon the former Scheme. The Interest of them by this means would be a standing [Page 17]Fund, to appropriate to any Use whatsoever, without taxing the People, which, I think, will be very diffi­cult to contrive without it. Besides, in any publick Exigency the Legislature might command whatever Money they wanted, for it would be but offering any money'd Man the Bonds and the Security, which the Public shall have, from some of the principal of their Creditors, and have them assign'd over to them, until they were paid, and there is no one, who had it, but would lend Money on such Security, having some of the principal Men, besides the publick Faith, to make it good.

But what need have I to shew the Advantages it will be to the Publick? Let any Man consider, what a Turn it will give to the publick Credit, when the Legislature have the Command of the Principal and Interest of 250, or 300,000 Pounds?

I think that this Opportunity ought by no Means to be neglected: For if there comes a War, (as we know not how soon,) this Country will have Occa­sion enough for Money, it being a Frontier against two powerful Enemies, the French and the Spaniards; besides those about us and amongst us: And if we are then forc'd to tax our People for as much we shall want, I believe we shall soon bring them into very great Streights: For it is not here as it is in England, in case of a War; If the People of England are taxed heavy, this is all that they bear, and they have the same Opportunity to take care of their Affairs, as in times of Peace: but the Case is very different here, per­haps it may be dangerous for some Persons, to abide by their Affairs, so that they will be so far from doing any Thing towards the Support of the Government, [Page 18]that they will hardly be able to provide for themselves. And tho' at present it is Peace, yet look but on al­most every thing that belongs to the Publick, and see if it is not in the greatest Disorder for Want of Money. I need not descend to particulars I suppose, and say what Condition our Fortifications are in, and how our Canons are almost all dismounted, and how much our small Arms want repair &c.

Now as to the Consequences of this Scheme with respect to the British Trade, I think it is so far from being a Prejudice thereto, that nothing can be done which will support the British Trade more. I believe this may seem a strange Paradox to some Persons, but I would have nothing regarded in these Papers, but what upon Examination shall appear to be Truth.

The Design, as I said before, of Trade, is the Ex­changing of the Superfluities of one Country, Family, or Person, for the Necessaries that may be had from another. Now the Superfluities of our Country are Pitch, Tar and Rice, that is to say, we make more than we can use of them. The Superfluities of En­gland are the Woolen Manufactures, Iron of all sorts, with several other Things that need not be named here: And as England wants our Produce, but more espe­cially Pitch and Tar, so we want their coarse Cloths, Iron and Linnens, and several other Things. Now provided the Merchant of England can transport to us those Commodities so, that when he has his Returns in our Produce, he has acquired a sufficient Gain; what does he, or what need he care, what we make Use of as a Medium for our Trade?

It may be said, that if we had Silver-Currency, it would perhaps sometimes be more for his Advantage, to [Page 19]take away our Silver, rather than our Produce: I deny not but it might; yet I think I have made it ap­pear, that by the Nature of our Trade, he cannot have Silver from us long, unless we had Mines: But suppose they could shift Silver, and sometimes carry it to, at other times bring it from England, this is no better than Stock-jobbing in Trade; it would be on­ly carrying the Money from one part of the Kings Dominions to another, but nothing of any real Gain to the Monarchy.

The Trade of one part of the Kings Dominions with another ought to be considered different from that, which we carry on with any Foreign Prince: For if the Merchant should bring Money out of England, to purchase our Produce, then he would leave the Cloths and Iron, and other Commodities, that we want and they did not know what to do with, upon their Hands; and if he should carry away our Money, in­stead of our Produce, then he would leave our Com­modities to perish on our Hands, when perhaps they wanted them in England. This is only playing Tricks and of no Use to the Kingdom.

But here is another ill Consequence, which is worse, to the British Trade: The People of this Province by this will find, that their Supply, and the Sale of their Produce, will be so uncertain, that they will endea­vour to provide for their own Necessaries. Every Man knows, that it is very easy for us, to have more Wool and Cotton, not to say Silk, of our own Growth, than we can expend, and we have Persons enough, that can manufacture it. Then we, who now take away more of the British Manufactures than any other Province, nay, some say, than all the Provinces in America, be­sides [Page 20]shall be able to supply others from hence, and the ill Consequences will be this, as to England, they will not only loose the Sale of so much of their Ma­nufactures, but they will be forc'd to purchase our Produce at a dearer rate from other Places. So that I think 'tis very plain, that Want of Paper-Bills will not only hurt our Trade, but the British Trade also, and I could very easily make appear, were it within my Design, that Paper-Money in America will great­ly contribute towards the Wealth and Interest of En­gland; but I waive this, as being foreign to my Pur­pose.

Besides both Wheat and Barley will grow very well here, and we could easily, now we are so well acquainted with the Country, provide Mills to grind it, and if we were to go upon that, that would cut off the Northward Trade, from whence we have almost all our Flower and Beer, and with our Produce they make Returns to England. So that, if our Paper-Money should be destroy'd, it would cut off the grea­test part of the Trade of this Province, and oblige us to provide our own Necessaries, much more to the da­mage of those that trade with us, than of ourselves. For now, we trade for almost all our Cloathing, and all our Liquor, and Flower, and many other Things, which we could easily provide here. Therefore, I think, it is not only our own Interest, but the Inte­rest of all who trade with us, that we should have Pa­per-Money amongst us. And I think, it is equally the Interest of all, that this Money should be put on such a Foundation, that it should seldom or never be [...], or at least, not until they find somewhat that is better, to substitute in the room of it.

[Page 21]I have only one Thing more to offer, and that is, The Case is not now, whether we shall have Bills, or Silver, for Currency, but whether we shall have pu­blick Money establish'd by Law; or whether we shall have private Mens Notes pass as a Currency? The Case is very plain, that the Merchant will not be sa­tisfied without some Currency, nor indeed will the Planter. There are many who wait to see what the Publick will do, in relation to those Bills; and if it comes to that, that we cannot do without Bank-Notes, it is probable there may be many other Banks made: For I apprehend the Bankers find their Account in it, and it is like, others will be willing to reap some part of the Benefit, as well as they, so that we shall have the Country run into Parties and Factions about those Banks, and we may depend upon it, they will do what they can to influence Elections and Votes in Assem­blies. How far indeed they will go, is not easy to determine: But this, I think, may be said, that if the Legislature should sit regardless and let the Command of the Currency go out of their Hands, they would soon be obliged to submit to those who have the Com­mand of it, and then our Assemblies for ever after are to be only a Nose of Wax.

I have now done, and in the Prosecution of this Ar­gument, I think, I have aim'd solely at Truth, and the Interest of this Province, which I leave to the Con­sideration of those, who are more immediately con­cern'd