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They declared that silence was a crime at such a critical time, and that a tame submission to the stamp-act would leave their liberties and properties entirely at the disposal of a British parliament.

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As they had opposed the stamp-act, assigning for reason that they were not represented in parliament, was it not evident that the same reason would extend to all other laws which the parliament might enact to bind them in times to come, or had enacted to bind them in times past?

An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2 Alexander Hewatt

While they received the news that the stamp-act had passed, they at the same time had intelligence of that violent opposition it had met with from a strong faction in the House of

An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2 Alexander Hewatt

The repeal of the stamp-act upon such a principle, and in such circumstances of tumult, unquestionably served to encourage the colonies in disobedience, and to prepare their minds for asserting their independence.

An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2 Alexander Hewatt

A few discontented persons, who are commonly to be found in every legislature, joined the disaffected colonists of New England; and though at this time the party was inconsiderable, yet being more firmly cemented together by the prospect of a stamp-act, which equally affected the interest of all, it by degrees gained strength, and at length became formidable.

An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2 Alexander Hewatt

For after repealing the stamp-act, without any previous submission on the part of the colonies, how could it be expected that any gentleman would risque his domestic peace, his fortune, or his life, in favour of a distant government ready to desert him, and leave him subjected to all the insults and outrages of future insurgents?

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Shame on the American who calls the tea-tax and stamp-act laws!

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The province of Pennsylvania appointed a new agent to London, in the person of the celebrated Benjamin Franklin, who was instructed to oppose the stamp-act to the very utmost, and indeed every other act that might be proposed to the British parliament to tax the Americans without their consent.

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Does any American condemn our ancestors for resisting the stamp-act, though the authorities of St. St.phen's and Westminster united in pronouncing the imposition constitutional?

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No sooner had this change in administration taken place, than all papers and petitions relative to the stamp-act, both from Great Britain and

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