AFAN TANNING.
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AFEN FOR FANNING.


AND


ToUCH-STONE TO TRYON,


CONTAINING


An Impartial account ef the Rise Gnd Progress
Of the much tailed Of Regulation in North
CAROLINA


Ia the western, and southern Provinces, they
know not of the Government of Towns bv Sc
lect-men. &c. Nor of chusing Iury-Men, the
Sheriff of the County summoning whom he plea
ses, in all the County, for that service hence is
that County Courts are places of great ccncourse
People from all parts of the County hooking
thiher, for the Business of the Court, others
for Trade, and many for sports and diversions
Therefore proper places for collecting the sense Of
the Body Of the People, rs we'll as for doing such
Business as concerns the whole. And this gives
us the reason Of the Conduct of a number of re-
spectacle Inhabitants in Orange County, who
form'd the Address, menton'd in No. II, and, at
an Inferior Court sometime in the Summer Of
i765, read it in the audience of all the People, and
presented it to their Representatives, and to the
Magistrates of the County. l chuse to give the
Address in their own words, that the reader may
see and Judge for himself of what spirit they ap-
pear to have been, that they were not all Fools,
and Madmen, having q mischievous Design a.
gainst the Government, as has been often said by
Tanning, &c.


THE ADDRESS.


"That great good may come of this great de-
sign'd evil, the Stamp Law, while the Sons of Lib
erty Withstand the Lords in Parliament, in behalf
of their true Liberty, let not Officers under them
carry on unj juSt oppression in our own Province
norder thereto, there many evils of that
ture complain'd of in this County Of Orange in
private amongst the Inhabitants, let US remove
them-Or if there is no cause, let remove the
iealousies ont of our Minds Honest Rulers in
Power, will be glad to see examine this matter
frcely-And certainly there are more honest Men
among US than RoguCs; yet Rogncs are har-
bourd amongst US sometimes almost pubckly.


Every honest Man is willing to give a part OF
his Substance to support Rulers and laws, to save
the other part from Rogues; and 1t Is his Duty,
as we'll as his Right, to see aud examine whether
such Rulers abuse snch Trust; otherwise, that
part so given may do more hurt than good.


Even if we were all Rogucs, in that case we
could not subsist, but would be obliged to frame
Laws, to make ourselves honest And the same
reasoning holds good against the notion of a Ma
Sor-ClGb.


Thus tho Justice must be desired by all, or the
greatest number of Men, yet when grievances OF
such public Nature not redressd the reason IS,
what is every Bodys Business is Nobody's There
fore the following proposals are offered to the
public, viz. Let each Neighbourhood through
out the County meet together, and appoint one or
more to attend general meeting on the Monday
before next November Court, at a suitable Place,
where there is no Liquor, (Strong Drnk); at
which Meeting let it be jndiciousy enqulred in
to, whether the Freemcn of this County, labour
under any abuses Of Power not; and let the
same be notfco in writing, if any are found, and
the matter freely conversed upon, and proper Mea-
sures used for amendment


This method will certainly cause the wicked
Men in Power to trembe; and there is no dam
age can attend such Meeting, nor nothing him
der it but cowardIy, dasardy, Spirit; which if it
does, atthis time, while Liberty prevails, we must
rnuuer and grumble under any abuses Of Power,
until such noble Spirit prevails in our Posterl-
ty; for take this as a Maxim. that while Men are
Men tho we should see all those Sons of Liberty,
who have just redeemed US from Tyranny set in
Offices and vested with Power, they would soon
corrupt again and Cypress, if they were not call
ed upon to give Account of their Steward
ship"


Thus did number of IFreeholders, Inhabitants
of Orange County, in the name, and by the con-
sent of the People in general solicit their Repre-
sentatives &C. to meet their Constituents that they
might have an opportunity Of mentioning their
ieaIousies, and of telling wherein they thought
themselves aggrieved proposing, that if it should
appear necessary, to endeavour for new Election
of all those Officers that by the Constitution were
Elective; such as Assembly-Men, Vestry-Men
&C. and this leads US into an understanding of
some expressions in the proposals, or address,
viz -"There are more honest men amongst US than
"Rogues, &C." 1t seems that Tanning and 9TH
ers Of the Officers had impressed the minds ofthe
People, in general, with a belief, That such was
the union of Brotherhood founded in Masonry,
that extended itself into all parts of the County,
that it would be vain for the Planters, or common
People, to make any attempt, by an election eth
turn the present Officers out or to chuse 9TH
ers, from amongst themselves, into Place, or Of
fee; And therefore it is that the authors of the ad
dress assert that there are more honest Men among
them than Rogues; For if these Men, in Office,
are Masons, as they call themselves, and.the con-
sequence to us is oppression and no justice, they
must be Rogues; And upon the supposition that
it be so: that we, the Country,; are not equal in
number, to thesecombined meng YET, if we are all
be Governed by Law, and not by the Will of