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... Colonies had been carried on with little or no intermission for a period of ten years . The most prominent and exciting of these disputes , was the right claimed by England to tax the colonies for the benefit of the British treasury ...
... Colonies had been carried on with little or no intermission for a period of ten years . The most prominent and exciting of these disputes , was the right claimed by England to tax the colonies for the benefit of the British treasury ...
Page 92
... Colonies , and after its repeal , the calm of a few months , which followed , was again disturbed by the passage of the revenue act of 1767 , which imposed heavy duties on glass , paper , painter's colors , and teas . The colonies at ...
... Colonies , and after its repeal , the calm of a few months , which followed , was again disturbed by the passage of the revenue act of 1767 , which imposed heavy duties on glass , paper , painter's colors , and teas . The colonies at ...
Page 93
... colonies that she did not relinquish the principle , that she possessed the right to tax them . This scheme so far from appeasing the colonists served only to keep alive their jealousy . Throughout the country the use of tea was not ...
... colonies that she did not relinquish the principle , that she possessed the right to tax them . This scheme so far from appeasing the colonists served only to keep alive their jealousy . Throughout the country the use of tea was not ...
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... colonies , had here been warmly and earnestly discussed . Its walls had often shaken with denunciations of the wicked policy pursued by the mother country . Here the " sons of liberty , " as the patriots were called , smarting under the ...
... colonies , had here been warmly and earnestly discussed . Its walls had often shaken with denunciations of the wicked policy pursued by the mother country . Here the " sons of liberty , " as the patriots were called , smarting under the ...
Page 97
... colonies suggestions of independence had already been loosely and vaguely thrown out by certain individuals in the heat of debate , but the colonies separately could effect nothing towards it , and it was only by the concentrated action ...
... colonies suggestions of independence had already been loosely and vaguely thrown out by certain individuals in the heat of debate , but the colonies separately could effect nothing towards it , and it was only by the concentrated action ...
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