Before The Coming Of The Loyalists - Couverture souple

Haight, C

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0548612471 ISBN 13 : 9780548612477

Editeur : Kessinger Publishing, 2007

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Présentation de l'éditeur

In the last century England had made wonderful strides in advance. As an enlightened, prosperous country she had no compeer. Her people enjoyed religious liberty, freedom of speech, and civil rights, and these estimable blessings were equally enjoyed by her children beyond the sea. Still, she had not altogether emerged from past influences; a puritanical spirit, so to speak, still remained and colored her actions. When differences arose, either at home or abroad, the spirit of the age led them to the argumentum baculinum method as the most direct and satisfactory way of settling the matter. There is nothing to show, I think, that England laid any heavier burdens on the colonies than were borne at home. At that moment and indeed for years prior to that she had been at war. France and Spain were combined against her. She was fighting in the East. Kodney was sweeping the sea. Her resources were taxed to their utmost limit, and there was no alternative but to lay heavy imposts on her people. The burden was great, but it was patiently borne. They were Britons, and a Briton never closes his purse when his country is in need, nor does he refuse to step into the ranks at her call. In this strait she turned to the colonies, and did what she had a perfect right to do, demand of them substantial help in the usual way in which it is obtained. A duty on imports was imposed, then followed the stamp act, and then a duty of three pence per pound on tea which was nine pence less than the duty at home. These several acts were met by loud protests from these degenerate sons. They were pronounced outrageous and tyrannical, and the colonists set about at once to render the first inoperative. A riot was raised over the second, the stamp office gutted and the stamps destroyed.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Kessinger Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0548612471
• ISBN 13: 9780548612477
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 24
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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