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Maryland (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
crease of annual taxes in England, within ten years, was three millions, while all the establishments of America, according to accounts which were produced, cost the Americans but seventy-five thousand pounds. J. Ingersoll to Fitch Feb. 11 and March 6. Letters of Israel Manduit, Jasper Mauduit, and Garth, the last a member of parliament. The charters of the colonies were referred to, and Grenville interpreted their meaning. The clause under which a special exemption was claimed for Maryland was read, and he argued, that that province, upon a public emergency, is subject to taxation, in like manner with the rest of the colonies, or the sovereignty over it would cease; and, if it were otherwise, why is there a duty on its staple of tobacco? and why is it bound at present, by several acts affecting all America, and passed since the grant of its charter? Besides, all charters, he insisted, were under the control of the legislature. Calvert to Sharpe, 9 Feb. 1765. The colo
Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
England were reading the history of the first sixty years of the Colony of Massachusetts, by Hutchinson. This work is so ably executed that as yet it remains withoons. He mocked at the absurdity of Otis, and the insolence of New-York and Massachusetts. The arguments of America, said he, mixed up with patriotic words,. One member, however, referred with asperity to the votes of New-York and Massachusetts, and the house generally seemed to hold that America was as virtually repretained by it immense advantages at a vast expense to the mother country. Massachusetts Gazette of 9 May, 1765. And now, said he, will these American children, plam Connecticut, though expressed in the most moderate language; a fifth from Massachusetts, though silent even about the question of right, all shared the same refusafor relief to the rapid increase of the people of America. The agent for Massachusetts had recommended the tax. Knox, The Claim of the Colonies to Exemption fr
Birmingham (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 11
ider were taxed without the consent of their repre sentatives; and while every Englishman is taxed, not one in twenty is represented. Are not the people of Manchester and Birmingham Englishmen? And are they not taxed? If every Englishman is represented in parliament, why does not this imaginary representation extend to America? If it can travel three hundred miles, why not three thousand? If it can jump over rivers and mountains, why cannot it sail over the ocean? If Manchester and Birmingham are there represented, why not Albany and Boston? Are they not Englishmen? But it is urged, if the privilege of being taxed by the legislative power within itself alone is once given up, that liberty, which every Englishman has a right to, is torn from them; they are all slaves, and all is lost. But the liberty of an Englishman cannot mean an exemption from taxes imposed by the authority of the parliament of Great Britain. No charters grant such a privilege to any colony in America;
Louisiana (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
ich Sir William Meredith seconded; and, with all the aid of those interested in West Indian estates, it was carried against America, by two hundred and forty-five to forty-nine. Conway and Beckford alone were said to have denied the power of Parliament; and it is doubtful how far it was questioned even by them. Even while this debate was proceeding, faith in the continuance of English liberty was conquering friends for England, and advancing her banners into new regions. The people of Louisiana, impatient of being transferred from France to Spain, longed to come over to the English side—save only a band of poor Acadians, two hundred in number, wanderers of ten years, doomed ever to disappointment. Hearing of one open territory, where the flag they loved still waved, they came through St. Domingo to New Orleans, pining away of want and wretchedness. Touched with compassion at the sight, Aubry at first assigned them homes on the right bank of the Mississippi, near New Orleans; bu
Georgia (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
n. It can be of no purpose to claim a right of exemption, thought Hutchinson. It will fall particularly hard on us lawyers and printers, wrote Franklin Franklin to Ross, 14 Feb. 1765. to a friend in Philadelphia, never doubting it would go into effect, and looking for relief to the rapid increase of the people of America. The agent for Massachusetts had recommended the tax. Knox, The Claim of the Colonies to Exemption from Taxes Imposed by Parliament Examined, 1765. the agent for Georgia, wrote publicly in its favor. The honest but eccentric Thomas Pownall, who had been so much in the colonies, and really had an affection for them, congratulated Grenville in advance, on the good effects he would see derived to Great Britain and to the colonies from his firmness and candor in conducting the American business. Pownall's Dedication to George Grenville of the second edition of his Administration of the Colonies. Still less did the statesmen of England doubt the result.
Robert Walpole (search for this): chapter 11
up in the navy and the army, he spoke for the largest numbers; for the colonies, said he, are not to be emancipated. Walpole to Hertford, 27 Jan. 1765. Walpole's Geo. III., II. 46, 47. Grenville was more obstinate and more cool, Feb. abounWalpole's Geo. III., II. 46, 47. Grenville was more obstinate and more cool, Feb. abounding in gentle words. The agents of the colonies had several meetings among themselves; and on Saturday, the second of February, Franklin, with Ingersoll, Jackson and Garth, as agents for Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and South Carolina, waited on the the malady was no trifling one; Lord Chesterfield, 22 April. that he was very seriously ill, and in great danger. Walpole to Hertford, 26 March, 1765. At one time pains were taken to secrete him from all intercourse with his court. His physician hinted the propriety of his retiring to one of his palaces in the country. Walpole's George III., 83. To a few only was the nature of his illness known. Be every sentiment of anger towards the king absorbed in pity. At the moment of passin
Thomas Pownall (search for this): chapter 11
l power. Compare Grenville's speech in the debate of 25 April, 1770, in Cavendish, i. 551; also the first editions of Pownall's Administration of the Colonies oppose the keeping up a military force; and these editions were but a ministerial pamph the colonies were invited to make the nominations; and they did so, Franklin Geo. III. c. XLV. C. Jenkinson to Secretary Pownall, 19 March, 1765. among the rest. You tell me, said the minister, you are poor, and unable to bear the tax; others Imposed by Parliament Examined, 1765. the agent for Georgia, wrote publicly in its favor. The honest but eccentric Thomas Pownall, who had been so much in the colonies, and really had an affection for them, congratulated Grenville in advance, on tld see derived to Great Britain and to the colonies from his firmness and candor in conducting the American business. Pownall's Dedication to George Grenville of the second edition of his Administration of the Colonies. Still less did the sta
Phillimore (search for this): chapter 11
e's of 2 Feb. 1766. The nation was provoked by American claims of independence (of parliament), and all parties joined in resolving by this act to settle the point. Franklin to Charles Thompson, Ms. On the twenty-seventh of February, the Stamp Act passed the House of Commons. Rockingham had freely expressed his opinion at Sir George Saville's as to the manner in which the colonies could best resist it. Letter from London, by William Bollan. In public he was silent. Lord Temple Phillimore's Lyttelton, II. 690. had much private conversation with Lord Lyttelton on the subject; and both approved the principle of the measure, and the right asserted in it. Had there existed any doubt concerning that right, they were of opinion it should then be debated, before the honor of the legislature was engaged to its support. But on the eighth of March the bill was agreed to by the Lords without having encountered an amendment, debate, protest, division, or single dissentient vote. The
Thomas Whately (search for this): chapter 11
e required to be raised in such manner as the public charges for the province are raised. 5 Geo. III. c. XXXIII. § 8. Thus the bill contained, what had never before been heard of, a parliamentary requisition on the colonies; it enjoined things different from the general principles of the constitution, and passed without attentive examination Shelburne to Chatham, in Chatham Corr. III. 208. on the part of the govern- chap. XI.} 1765. April. ment. To soothe America, bounties T. Whately to Commissioners of Stamps, 20 April, 1765. Treasury minute, 26 April, 1765. were at the same time granted on the importation of deals, planks, boards, and timber from the plantations. Coffee of their growth was exempted from an additional duty; their iron might be borne to Ireland; their lumber to Ireland, Madeira, the Azores, and Europe, south of Cape Finisterre; the prohibition on exporting their bar iron from England was removed; the rice of North Carolina was as much liberated as th
William Knox (search for this): chapter 11
es, otherwise the liberties of America, I do not say will be lost, but will be in danger; and they cannot be injured without danger to the liberties of Great Britain. R. Jackson's Letter of 7 June, 1765, in Connecticut Gazette, of 9 Aug. 1765. Knox's Extra-official State Papers, II. 31. R. Jackson to William Johnson, 5 April, 1774, and 30 November, 1784. Thus calmly reasoned Jackson. Grenville urged chap. XI.} 1765. Feb. the house not to suffer themselves to be moved by resentment. On, wrote Franklin Franklin to Ross, 14 Feb. 1765. to a friend in Philadelphia, never doubting it would go into effect, and looking for relief to the rapid increase of the people of America. The agent for Massachusetts had recommended the tax. Knox, The Claim of the Colonies to Exemption from Taxes Imposed by Parliament Examined, 1765. the agent for Georgia, wrote publicly in its favor. The honest but eccentric Thomas Pownall, who had been so much in the colonies, and really had an affec
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