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The Daily Dispatch: March 28, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
y of the rights of war and peace, and the right to lay and levy imposts and taxes, were to be vested in the Council, subject to the negative of the President, and the union was to embrace all the colonies from New Hampshire to Georgia. The project was emphatically rejected, not only by the King, but by every Provincial Assembly. The colonies were so alien from each other by policy, interest, prejudice and manners, and so exasperated in their disputes about boundaries, that Dr. Franklin, in 1761, observed that a union of the colonies was absolutely impossible; or, at least, without being forced by the most grievous tyranny and oppression. The first attempt made upon American liberties by the British Government, in 1765, by the passage of the stamp act led to a congress of derogates from nine colonies, which assembled in New York in October of that year, at the instance and recommendation of Massachusetts. The colonies of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New J