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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition. 1 1 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 42: (search)
ithin eleven months, and, were sold upon an average at near forty pounds sterling each, amounting in the aggregate to a million of dollars. But however closely the ties of interest bound Carolina to England, the people were high- Chap. XLII.} 1769. Dec. spirited; and notwithstanding the great inconvenience to their trade, they persevered in the strict observance of their association; looking with impatient anxiety for the desired repeal of the Act complained of. Bull to Hillsborough, 6 Dec. 261. Thus all America confined its issue with Great Britain to the single question of the Act imposing a duty on tea. Will not a repeal of all other duties satisfy the colonists? Strahan to Franklin, 21 Nov. 1769, and Franklin to Strahan, 29 Nov. 1769; in Franklin IV. 258, 261. Compare Franklin's Works, 1769. VII. 478. asked one of the ministerial party of Franklin in London. And he frankly answered: I think not; it is not the sum paid in the duty on tea, that is complained of as a bu