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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1 18 0 Browse Search
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Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1 6 0 Browse Search
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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 6 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 6 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 4 0 Browse Search
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 4 0 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 22: (search)
tural right of all; but the doctrine of equality may be carried to the destruction of this monarchy. Lord Temple treated as a jest his brother-in-law's distinction in regard to internal taxation. Did the chap. XXII.} 1766. Feb. colonies, he continued, when they emigrated, keep the purse only, and give up their liberties? And he cited Shakspeare to prove that who steals a purse steals trash; then advising the Lords to firmness towards the colonies, he concluded with an admonition from Tacitus. The question before your lordships, said Camden, the youngest baron in the house, concerns the common rights of mankind. The resolution now proposed gives the legislature an absolute power of laying any tax upon America. In my own opinion, my lords, the legislature had no right to make this law. When the people consented to be taxed, they reserved to themselves the power of giving and granting by their representatives. The colonies, when they emigrated, carried their birthright with