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Title: Seventeen hundred and seventy-six, or, The war of independence : a history of the Anglo-Americans, from the period of the union of the colonies against the French, to the inauguration of Washington, the first president of the United States of America ...
Year: 1852 (1850s)
Authors: Lossing, Benson John, 1813-1891
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Publisher: New York : Edward Walker, 114 Fulton Street
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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with a * In 17G9, when similar agreements were entered into, Washington, alluding tothe subject in a letter to a friend, remarked ; We have already, it is said, provedthe inefficiency of addresses to the throne, and remonstrances to Parliament. Howfar, then, their attention to our rights and privileges is to be awakened or alarmed,by starving their trade and manufactures, remains to be tried. The northern Colo-nies, it appears, are endeavoring to adopt this scheme. In my opinion it is a goodone, and must be attended with salutary effects, provided it can be pretty generallycarried into execution. Washington subsequently entered into such an agreement,and was scrupulous in observing it. When he sent his customary annual orders toLondon for goods to be used in his family, he strictly enjoined his correspondents toforward none of the enumerated articles, unless the offensive acts of Parliamentshould in the meantime be repealed.—Sparkss Life of Washington, pp. 109-10. t Willson, p. 199.
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Parade of the Stamp Act, in Xg.v York. I. 71 chap, n.) EVENTS FROM 1763 TO 1770. 71 Tumults in New York and other placet. Rockingham Mini try. skull and cross-bones instead of the royal arms, and contemptuouslyparaded through the streets under the title of Englands Folly andAmericas Ruin. A tumult occurred in Newport, R. I., and seve-ral obnoxious citizens were hung in effigy. At Providence also,similar acts prevailed; and a gazette extraordinary was publishedthere, with the words Vox populi, vox Dei, in large letters at itshead, and underneath, Where the spirit of the Lord is, there isliberty.—St. Paul. In Connecticut, Ingersoll, the principal Stampofficer, was ordered to relinquish his office or suffer consequenceswhich he could very well anticipate. Similar instructions weregiven to the Stamp officers in New Hampshire, Maryland and Caro-lina. A paper published in Boston, called The ConstitutionalCourant; containing matters interesting to Liberty, and nowiserepugnant to Loyalty, h

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