Essays On Various Subjects: to Which is Prefixed a Life of the Author, volume 1
Essays On Various Subjects: to Which is Prefixed a Life of the Author, volume 1
George Walker
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- " 3. Desiring nothing for ourselves but the 6ame equal and liberal treatment, to which we think all other persons in a similar situ- ation are equally entitled^ it is our edrnest wish, that an equal participation in all civil privileges may be obtained for diwenters of every Digitized by Google THE REV. GEORGE WALKER. clxV tvery description, to whom nothing can be objected, beside their religious opinions or practices, and who can give that security for their civil allegiance, which the state... ought to require. ** 4. That the protestant dissenters of this country have always had reason to com- plain of unjust treatment, in being disqua- lified to hold oflSices of civil trust or power, though their bfehaviour has ever been peace- able and loyal, and though they can ev^n boast peculiar merit, as friends to the present government. ** 5. That it becomes dissenters, as men feeling their own disgraceful situation, and the opprobrium which this reflects upon their country, to adopt every constitutional me- thod of procuring the redress of their griev- ances, and^thus retrieve the honour of the nation.
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