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Address of His Majesty's Council to Lieutenant-Governor Bull, Requesting That Mr. Drayton Be Suspended as a Member of the Council Charles Town, S. C., Monday, Feb. 13, 1775. This day his Majesty's Council, consisting of three Placemen, presented the following Address to his Honor the Lieutenant-Governor. To the Honorable William Bull, Esq., Lieutenant-Governor and Commander-in-Chief, in and over his Majesty's Province of South Carolina: MAY IT PLEASE YOUR HONOR:His Majesty's dutiful and faithful subjects, the Council of this Province met in General Assembly, with reluctance approach your Honor on a subject of so disagreeable a nature as a complaint against one of their Members, the Honorable William Henry Drayton, Esq. Although the general tenor of Mr. Drayton's conduct for a considerable time past would not only have justified, but seemed to call for a representation from this House, to your Honor; yet anxious to avoid every measure which might appear to have a tendency to infringe upon the rights of an individual, or the privileges of a Member, we have hitherto delayed to lay before your Honor our just cause of complaint, and have submitted to many insults and indignities offered to individual Members, as well as outrageous breaches of privilege committed against this House. But as we are now thoroughly convinced that Mr. Drayton's conduct has been, and still continues to be influenced by a determined purpose, as far as in him lies, not only to destroy all confidence of the people in this House, and to bring it into contempt, but to subvert the Constitution and unhinge government, to be longer silent would be highly criminal; and we conceive ourselves bound both by principles of duly and affection to his Majesty, and justice to ourselves, humbly to request your Honor will be pleased to suspend the Honorable William Henry Drayton, Esq., from being a Member of his Majesty's Council in this Province. In the Upper House of Assembly, the 11th day of February, 1775. By order of the House, JOHN STUART (From Documentary History of the American Revolution, by Gibbes, Volume 1, p. 70) Doc ID: Gibbes, v. 1, p. 070 Date: 2/11/1775 |
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