And if they do not set the Land free from the
branches of the Kingly Oppression, but reserve some part of the
Kingly Power to advance their own particular interest, whereby some
of their friends are left under as great slavery to them as they
were under the Kings, those Officers are not faithful
Commonwealth's Soldiers, they are worse Thieves and Tyrants than
the Kings they cast out, and that Honor they seemed to get by their
Victories over the Commonwealth's Oppressor, they lose again by
breaking Promise and Engagement to their oppressed friends who did
assist them.
"For what difference is there between a professed Tyrant, who
declares himself a Tyrant in words, laws and deeds, as all
Conquerors do, and him who promises to free me from the power of
the Tyrant if I'll assist him; and when I have spent my estate and
blood, and the health of my body, and expect my bargain by his
engagements to me, he sits himself down in the Tyrant's Chair, and
takes the possession of the Land to himself, and calls it his and
none of mine, and tells me he cannot in conscience let me enjoy the
Freedom of the Earth with him, because it is another man's right."
HIS ACCOUNT OF HIS OWN CIRCUMSTANCES.
"And now my health and estate is decayed and I grow in age, I must
either beg or work for day-wages, which I was never brought up to,
for another; when the Earth is as freely my Inheritance and
Birth-Right as his whom I must work for.
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