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ovincial people, (Burke calls it a glorious Empire, ) subject to the British crown, organized for certain purposes under separate colonial charters, but, on some great occasions of political interest and public safety, acting as one. Thus they acted when, on the approach of the great Seven Years War, which exerted such an important influence on the fate of British America, they sent their delegates to Albany to concert a plan of union. In the discussions of that plan which was reported by Franklin, the citizens of the colonies were evidently considered as a People. When the passage of the Stamp Act in 1765 roused the spirit of resistance throughout America, the Unity of her People assumed a still more practical form. Union, says one of our great American historians, Banoroft's History of the United States, vol. v., p. 292. was the hope of Otis. Union that should knit and work into the very blood and bones of the original system every region as fast as settled. In this hope h