se naturally and easily go with
them, and matters thereby properly regulated, and kept in due order and
obedience; and they would have no idea of resisting or transgressing
either without being amenable to justice, and subject to punishment for
any offences they may commit.

"But, my Lords, to suffer a kind of _province within a province_, and
one that may, indeed must in process of time become superior, and too
big for the head, or original settlement or seat of government, to me
conveys with it many ideas of consequence, of such a nature, as I
apprehend are extremely dangerous and improper, and it would be the
policy of government to avoid and prevent, whilst in their power to do
so.

"My ideas, my Lords, are not chimerical; I know something of the
situation and state of things in America; and from some little
occurrences or instances that have already really happened, I can very
easily figure to myself what may, and, in short, what will certainly
happen, if not prevented in time."

IX. At the same time that we submit the foregoing reasoning against
colonization in the interior country to your Lordships consideration,
it is proper we should take notice of one argument, which has been
invariably held forth in support or every proposition of this nature,
and upon which the present proponents appear to lay great stress. It is
urged, that such is the state of the country now proposed to be
granted, and erected into a separate government, that no endeavours on
the part of the crown can avail, to prevent its being settled by those
who, by the increase of population in the middle colonies, are
continually emigrating to the Westward, and forming themselves into
colonies in that country, without the intervention or controul of
government, and who, if suffered to continue in that lawless state of
anarchy and confusion, will commit such abuses as cannot fail of
involving us in quarrel and dispute with the Indians, and thereby
endangering the security of his Majesty's colonies.

We admit, that this is an argument that deserves attention; and we
rather take notice of it in this place, because some of the objections
stated by Governor Wright _lose their force upon the supposition that
the grants against which he argues are to be erected into separate
governments_. But we are clearly of opinion, that his arguments do, in
the general view of them, as applied to the question of granting lands
in the interior parts of America, sta