<blockquote>Franklin was thus complaining of the choice facing the legislature between being able to make funds available for frontier defense and maintaining its right of self-governance--and he was criticizing the governor for suggesting it should be willing to give up the latter to ensure the former.</blockquote>
via <a href="https://www.lawfareblog.com/what-ben-franklin-really-said">What Ben Franklin Really Said - Lawfare</a>.