 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1905 - 432 pages
...manufactures of Great Britain, that it will be scarce possible for us to earn our bread." Furthermore, "if our trade may be taxed, why not our lands? Why not the produce of our lands, and every thing we possess or make use of? This we apprehend annihilates our charter right to govern and tax ourselves.... | |
 | Allen Johnson - 1918 - 292 pages
...blunder but a menace to political liberty as well. "If our trade may be taxed," so the instructions ran, "why not our lands? Why not the produce of our lands, and everything we possess or make use of? This we apprehend annihilates our charter right to govern and... | |
 | Carl Lotus Becker - 1918 - 328 pages
...blunder but a menace to political liberty as well. "If our trade may be taxed," so the i structions ran, "why not our lands? Why not the produce of our lands, and everything we possess or make use of? This we apprehend anm'lu'lQtpg our charter right to govern and... | |
 | Samuel Eagle Forman - 1921 - 704 pages
...Act that the law was only preparatory to new taxation. " For if our Trade may be taxed," said he, " why not our lands? Why not the produce of our lands, and everything we possess or make use of ? ... If Taxes are laid upon us in any shape without our having... | |
 | John Spencer Bassett - 1921 - 1018 pages
...meeting declared: "There is no room for further delay. . . . These unexpected protwdine : .ixat ions upon us ; for if our trade may be taxed, why not our lands? Why not the produce of our l.uuis.. md even-thing r • In this way the 3. The Stamp Act. Alarm in the Colonies. 165 time for... | |
 | James Truslow Adams - 1923 - 516 pages
...with the blow directed at the colony's trade by the new act, they also advanced to broader ground.2 "If our Trade may be taxed why not our Lands ? Why not the Produce of our Lands and everything we possess or make use of ? " wrote Adams. " If Taxes are laid upon us in any shape without... | |
 | Philip Guedalla - 1926 - 366 pages
...Merchants to all just and necessary Regulations of Trade, there was an awkward undertone which enquired "If our Trade may be taxed, why not our Lands? Why not the Produce of our Lands and everything we possess or make use of? This we apprehend annihilates our Charter Right to govern and... | |
 | Samuel Eagle Forman - 1927 - 536 pages
...liberty of the colonists. "If our trade may be taxed," said Samuel Adams, speaking of the Sugar Act, "why not our lands? Why not the produce of our lands, and everything we possess or make use of?" The Stamp Act seemed to give such protests the character of... | |
 | A. J. Langguth - 1989 - 644 pages
...Massachusetts. The farmers must see that a tax on molasses could easily extend to their crops as well. "For if our trade may be taxed, why not our lands? Why not the produce of our lands and, in short, everything we possess or make use of?" James Otis had argued that since the colonies had... | |
 | Rodger Streitmatter - 1998 - 305 pages
...held on uncertain tenure. Parliament would continue to increase taxes, he said, asking rhetorically, "If our Trade may be taxed why not our Lands? Why not the Produce of our Lands & every thing we possess or make use of? This we apprehend annihilates our Charter Right to govern... | |
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... if our trade may be taxed, why not our lands ? Why not the produce of our lands and everything we possess or make use of ? This we apprehend annihilates our charter right to govern and tax ourselves. It strikes at our British privileges, which, as... 
