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Title: Seventeen hundred and seventy-six, or, The war of independence : a history of the Anglo-Americans, from the period of the union of the colonies against the French, to the inauguration of Washington, the first president of the United States of America ...
Year: 1852 (1850s)
Authors: Lossing, Benson John, 1813-1891
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Publisher: New York : Edward Walker, 114 Fulton Street
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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d, in the House of Commons, I didpropose the Stamp Act, and shall have no objections to have it christened by myname. There was only one division in the committee against it, and not a singlenegative in the House of Lords. It is easy to give an ex post facto judgment, butof all who acted with me in the government, I never heard any one prophecy thatthe measure would be opposed. After the event prophecy is very safe. TheHonorable Colonel Barre did indeed say, that he knew not what anger it mightcause in America.—Cavendishes Debates. t See note I., Appendix. % On the very night the Act was passed, Doctor Franklin wrote to Charles Thom-son, who was afterwards Secretary to Congress, The Sun of Liberty is set; theAmericans must light the lamps of Industry and Economy. To which Mr. Thom-son replied, Be assured we shall light torches of another sort, thus predictingthe convulsions that would follow. . § They were drawn up on the blank leaf of an old volume of Coke upon Little-ton.— Wirt
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A(-i chap, ii.) EVENTS FROM 1763 TO 1770. 63 Debate in the Virginia House of Burgesses. the aforesaid colonists by two royal charters granted by King James,The third asserted that taxation of the people by themselves, or bypersons chosen by themselves, was the distinguishing characteristicof British freedom, and without which the ancient constitution couldnot subsist. The fourth maintained that the people of Virginia hadalways enjoyed the right of being governed by their own Assemblyin the article of taxes, and that this right had been constantly recog-nised by the king and people of Great Britain. The fifth resolution,in which was summed up the essentials of the preceding ones, de-clared That the General Assembly of this Colony have the soleright and power to levy taxes and imposition upon the inhabitants ofthis Colony ; and that every attempt to vest such power in any otherperson or persons whatsoever, other than the General Assemblyaforesaid, has a manifest tendency to destroy, Bri

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