Whether, in the case of Mr. Murray, the House of Commons did not assume a power they had no just right to?
Whether they did not proceed throughout in a most illegal, unconstitutional, unprecedented manner?
Whether they did not try him upon an accusation they knew to be false, scandalous, and groundless?
Whether they did not condemn him in defiance of all law, and in the most open violation of justice?
Whether their proceedings have not made a dangerous encroachment upon the freedom and independency of the British people, as well as brought a lasting dishonour upon the British Parliament?
Whether their daily conduct does not tend, instead of remedying the distractions of a jarring people, to throw them into a continued confusion, and to make resentment and rebellion become habitual to Britain?
Whether there is not reason to expect that we shall soon be deprived of the most valuable right a British subject can enjoy, the right of election?
Whether we are not bound upon the most conscientious motives by any means in our power to defend it?
Can we patiently look upon these fresh endeavours to abuse and to divide the nation? can we patiently bear fresh loads of oppression multiplied without measure, and extended without limitation?