A general history of Connecticut - Ramapough Lenape Nation

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CON NEe TIC U T. 119 rank and po1feffion I that it is incompatible with freed0m for any particular defcriptions of men fyftetnatically to monopolize honours and property, to the extlufionof .the refl:; that it was a part defpicable and unworthy of one freeman to ftoop to the will and caprice of another, on account of his wealth and titles. accruing not from his own, but from the heroifm and virtue of his anceftors, &:c. &c. The 'Vox populi eftabli£bed thefe maxims in New-England; and whoever did not, at leaft, outwardly conform to them, were not chofen into office j nay, though not objeClible on that .fcore, meri very feldom met with re-appointments, left they £bould claim them by hereditary right. Thus, the levelling principle prevailing, equals were refpeCled, and fuperiors derided. Europeans, whofe manners were haughty to inferiors and fawning to fu periors, were neither loved nor efteemed. Hence an Engli£b traveller I + through
120 HIS TOR Y 0 F through Connecticut meets with fupereilious treatment at all taverns, as being too much addicted to the ufc of the Im perative Mood,when fpeaking to the landlord. The anfwer is, ., Command your own fervants, and not me." The traveller is not obeyed; which provokes him to fame expreffions that are not legal in the colony, about the impertinmce of the landlord, who being commonly a juftice of the paace, the delinquent is im. mediately ordered into cufiody, fined, or put into the frocks. However, after paying cofts, and promiling to behave well in future, he paires on with more attention to his " unruly member" than to his pleafures. Neverthelefs, if a traveller foftens his tone, and avoids the Imperative Mood, he will find everycivility from thofe: very people, whofe natural tempers are full of antipathy againft all who affeCt fuperiority over them. This principle is, by long cufiom, blended with
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