Sources and Documents Illustrating the American Revolution, 1764-1788, and the Formation of the Federal ConstitutionSamuel Eliot Morison |
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... manufactures from the plantations , and every honest man will readily subscribe to them , ' wrote James Otis . Right as to Europe : but for God's sake , must we have no trade with other colonies ? ' We 6 As yet few persons had cared to ...
... manufactures from the plantations , and every honest man will readily subscribe to them , ' wrote James Otis . Right as to Europe : but for God's sake , must we have no trade with other colonies ? ' We 6 As yet few persons had cared to ...
Page xv
... manufactures , land on tea , when entering the colonies . The moneys thus raised in the colonies , instead of going to support the garrison , were to be used to create a colonial civil list ( p . 51 ) , and thus render the royal ...
... manufactures , land on tea , when entering the colonies . The moneys thus raised in the colonies , instead of going to support the garrison , were to be used to create a colonial civil list ( p . 51 ) , and thus render the royal ...
Page xvi
... manufactures were encouraged , and merchants combined with 1 See Callender , 63-8 , 140 ; Becker , Political Parties in New York , chapter iii ; Publications Colonial Society of Mass . , xix . 181-91 . Cf. Burke , Speeches on American ...
... manufactures were encouraged , and merchants combined with 1 See Callender , 63-8 , 140 ; Becker , Political Parties in New York , chapter iii ; Publications Colonial Society of Mass . , xix . 181-91 . Cf. Burke , Speeches on American ...
Page xvii
... manufactures were preposterous , repealed all the Townshend duties except that on tea ; but all other duties and the com- missioners of the customs remained . Radical leaders wished to continue the boycott , but the merchants were sick ...
... manufactures were preposterous , repealed all the Townshend duties except that on tea ; but all other duties and the com- missioners of the customs remained . Radical leaders wished to continue the boycott , but the merchants were sick ...
Page xxiv
... manufactures , but postpone the day when the colonists would find the Acts of Trade intolerable . His policy was the logical development of that momentous decision in 1762 , to retain Canada and the West , instead of Guadeloupe . Lack ...
... manufactures , but postpone the day when the colonists would find the Acts of Trade intolerable . His policy was the logical development of that momentous decision in 1762 , to retain Canada and the West , instead of Guadeloupe . Lack ...
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