"...And were not the taxes of Britons, and the number of her armies increased, to make up the deficiency...offered to drop the act for raising a stamp duty in America provided the colonist would grant...their reasonable aids towards the support of their own civil establishment & the national defence...Not to oppress--not to injure, much less to reduce the Americans to slavery..." [More]
Friday, December 21, 2012
This Day in History: December 21
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