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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 10: (search)
pusillanimous man entreated his correspondent to conceal his confession from those whom it would displease. Yet to his friends in America, he used to say, that there was no ground for the distinction between the duties on trade and internal taxes; that if the Parliament intended to go on, there would be a necessity to dispute the distinction; for, said he, they may find duties on trade enough to drain us thoroughly. Hutchinson to Ebenezer Silliman, 1764. Compare Hutchinson to Bollan, 7 Nov. 1764. And it is affirmed, that to members of the legislature of Massachusetts, from whom he had ends to gain, Hutchinson denied utterly the right of parliament to tax America. Novanglus, printed in 1774-5. The appeals of the Colonies were made in the spirit of loyalty. The wilderness was still ringing with the war-whoop of the savage; M. de St. Ange to M. d'abadie, 15 July, 1764. and the frontiers were red with blood; while the colonies themselves, at the solicitations of Amherst an