The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle

B O S T O N, January 9. 1769.

Copy of a Letter from the Speaker of the late House of Assembly of South Carolina, to Thomas Cushing, Esq; late Speaker of the Hon. House of Representatives of this Province, viz.

Charlestown, South Carolina, Nov. 21, 1768.

SIR.

HAVING had the honor of being chosen Speaker of the Commons House of Assembly, which met at Charlestown on the 12th Instant, I took the earliest Opportunity of laying before the House your Letter to me of the 11th of February last.

-It is with a Satisfaction equal to the Importance of the Subject, that I obey the Order of the House, in informing you of their unanimous Resolutions upon the Subject matter of your Letter : in acquainting you of their entire Approbation of the Measures taken by the late House of Representatives of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, to obtain a Redress of our Grievances.; and in thanking the Members of that House, in their Name, for communicating to their Fellow Subjects and Sufferers in this and the other Provinces, their Proceedings upon that trying Occasion.

I inclose you the Journals of the Proceedings of our House of Assembly. during the short, but interesting Period of their Existence, as printed by their Order ; which must convince the impartial World, that they have acted with Duty & Affection to his Majesty,at the same time that they have supported with Firmness,the Rights they hold under the Constitution.

The House was dissolved by Proclamation in the Evening of the Day that they entered into their Resolutions.--This Method of Proceeding may, for a time involve the Province in some Difficulties ; but I trust that nothing which the Ministry can invent will ever prevail upon a Commons House of Assembly of South Carolina tamely to surrender the Liberties and Privileges of the People to any Power upon Earth. I am Sir, with great Respect,

Your obliged and humble Servant,

P. MANIGAULT.