...eard, should in one day be deprived of all the valuable priv- ileges which they and their fathers had enjoyed for near a hundred years. Such were the arguments urged by Jeremiah Dummer, a native of New England , who, in the scarcity of friends to those governments, gained a tongue to defend the liberties of his country. Nor was it then known that, though the charters should be burned, freedom itself would...