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... matters managed that the empire , so recently victori- ous , was plunged into a needless and disastrous war . Prior to the time of George III , England's colonial policy had been markedly successful . For the most part the colo- nies ...
... matters managed that the empire , so recently victori- ous , was plunged into a needless and disastrous war . Prior to the time of George III , England's colonial policy had been markedly successful . For the most part the colo- nies ...
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... matter . It violated what they regarded as their inalienable right , that of giving and granting their own money . The first formal protest came from Virginia in the form of a set of resolutions drawn up by Patrick Henry and supported ...
... matter . It violated what they regarded as their inalienable right , that of giving and granting their own money . The first formal protest came from Virginia in the form of a set of resolutions drawn up by Patrick Henry and supported ...
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... matters except argument in the laying of internal taxes for the purpose of raising a revenue ; that the failure to repeal the Stamp Act would result in a total loss to England of her American trade . The colonies were quite willing to ...
... matters except argument in the laying of internal taxes for the purpose of raising a revenue ; that the failure to repeal the Stamp Act would result in a total loss to England of her American trade . The colonies were quite willing to ...
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... matter with four regiments . Fox and Burke , on the other hand , urged the repeal of the tax , but Lord North , declaring that such action " would stamp us with timidity , " carried through Par- liament the laws which are known as the ...
... matter with four regiments . Fox and Burke , on the other hand , urged the repeal of the tax , but Lord North , declaring that such action " would stamp us with timidity , " carried through Par- liament the laws which are known as the ...
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... . But whether I put the present num- bers too high or too low is a matter of little moment . Such is the strength with which population shoots in that part of the world , that , state the 48 CONCILIATION WITH THE COLONIES.
... . But whether I put the present num- bers too high or too low is a matter of little moment . Such is the strength with which population shoots in that part of the world , that , state the 48 CONCILIATION WITH THE COLONIES.
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Page 119 - We ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of that trust to which the order of Providence has called us. By adverting to the dignity of this high calling, our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire ; and have made the most extensive, and the only honourable conquests ; not by destroying, but by promoting, the wealth, the number, the happiness of the human race.
Page 58 - In this character of the Americans a love of freedom is the predominating feature, which marks and distinguishes the whole ; and as an ardent is always a jealous affection, your colonies become suspicious, restive, and untractable, whenever they see the least attempt to wrest from them by force, or shuffle from them by chicane, what they think the only advantage worth living for. This fierce spirit of liberty is stronger in the English colonies probably than in any other people of the earth...
Page 117 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are strong as links of iron.
Page 45 - The proposition is peace. Not peace through the medium of war; not peace to be hunted through the labyrinth of intricate and endless negotiations; not peace to arise out of universal discord fomented, from principle, in all parts of the empire ; not peace to depend on the juridical determination of perplexing questions, or the precise marking the shadowy boundaries of a complex government. It is simple peace ; sought in its natural course, and in its ordinary haunts. It is peace sought in the spirit...
Page 56 - I am sensible, Sir, that all which I have asserted in my detail is admitted in the gross ; but that quite a different conclusion is drawn from it. America, gentlemen say, is a noble object. It is an object well worth fighting for. Certainly it is, if fighting a people be the best way of gaining them.
Page 63 - Permit me, Sir, to add another circumstance in our colonies which contributes no mean part towards the growth and effect of this untractable spirit. I mean their education. In no country perhaps in the world is the law so general a study.
Page 78 - Sir, I think you must perceive that I am resolved this day to have nothing at all to do with the question of the right of taxation. Some gentlemen startle — but it is true; I put it totally out of the question. It is less than nothing in my consideration.
Page 55 - As to the wealth which the colonies have drawn from the sea by their fisheries, you had all that matter fully opened at your bar. You surely thought those acquisitions of value, for they seemed even to excite your envy; and yet the spirit by which that enterprising employment has been exercised ought rather, in my opinion, to have raised your esteem and admiration. And pray, Sir, what in the world is equal to it ? Pass by the other parts, and look at the manner in which the people of New England...
Page 57 - First, sir, permit me to observe that the use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment, but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again, and a nation is not governed which is perpetually to be conquered.
Page 61 - I do not think, Sir, that the reason of this averseness in the dissenting churches from all that looks like absolute government is so much to be sought in their religious tenets, as in their history. Every one knows that the Roman Catholic religion...