. Our country's story; an elementary history of the United States . his fortune. In matters of trade, themother country never thought of trying to help the colony; andwhen laws were made m old England, they always aimed atgetting as much money as possible from the new England acrossthe ocean. In 1765 the Stamp Act was passed, though many clear-headedstatesmen in England were against it. Edmund Burke said it The Stampwas unjust. WilHam Pitt, who was always a friend to America, ^^^said, England has no right to lay a tax upon the colonies. Thecolonies from New England to Georgia rebelled. The str
. Our country's story; an elementary history of the United States . his fortune. In matters of trade, themother country never thought of trying to help the colony; andwhen laws were made m old England, they always aimed atgetting as much money as possible from the new England acrossthe ocean. In 1765 the Stamp Act was passed, though many clear-headedstatesmen in England were against it. Edmund Burke said it The Stampwas unjust. WilHam Pitt, who was always a friend to America, ^^^said, England has no right to lay a tax upon the colonies. Thecolonies from New England to Georgia rebelled. The streetswere full of crowds. Images of the men appointed to sell thestamped paper were hanged or burned or driven about town inthe governors best coach with a figure of Satan for heutenant-governor of New York threatened to fire upon therebeUious colonists. Youll be hanged to a lamp-post if youdo, was the answer, and he did not fire. In some places build- 136 OUR COUNTRYS STORY Oppositionby thecolonies Repeal ofthe StampAct Place to affix the <o i_ I. ings were torn down, and every scrap of stamped paper thatcould be found was burned or tossed into the ocean. It was not all mob law. The assemblies met and declaredthat it was right to resist agreed that no deed or willshould be called illegal for the lack ofa stamp. The newspapers came outwith a skull and crossbones for a head-ing, or with black borders indicatingthe death of liberty. During the Frenchand Indian wars, Benjamin Franklin,then editor of a paper published inNEWSPAPER IMITATION OF A Philadelphia, had printed a picture of a(From the Gazette, Oct. 7,1765) suakc cut iuto scvcral parts, labeledwith the names of the different colonies. It was an old super-stition that if a snake was cut into pieces it would still live if thepieces were imited, and under tliis picture Franklm printed themotto, Unite or die. Tliis design became a favorite emblem. In one respect the colonists had matters
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