The history and antiquities of Boston .. . erformance. be republished, and in a form for general t An elegant Memorial of Gen. Warren and circulation. 1763.] REASONS FOR TAXATION. 675 CFIAPTER LXVIII. Cause of Taxing the Colonies. —A Stamp Duty proposed. — Small-Pox. — Inoculation.— Great Num-bers fly from the Town. — General Gourt removed to Concord. —Fire at Harvard College. Har-vard Hall and Library destroyed. — Depressing News from England.—Non-importation Agree-ment. — Mourning Costume changed. — Habits of Economy adopted. — Power of Parliament ques-tioned. — Colonial Representation in Pa
The history and antiquities of Boston .. . erformance. be republished, and in a form for general t An elegant Memorial of Gen. Warren and circulation. 1763.] REASONS FOR TAXATION. 675 CFIAPTER LXVIII. Cause of Taxing the Colonies. —A Stamp Duty proposed. — Small-Pox. — Inoculation.— Great Num-bers fly from the Town. — General Gourt removed to Concord. —Fire at Harvard College. Har-vard Hall and Library destroyed. — Depressing News from England.—Non-importation Agree-ment. — Mourning Costume changed. — Habits of Economy adopted. — Power of Parliament ques-tioned. — Colonial Representation in Parliament considered. — Otis Rights of the Colonies. Ellis Callender. — Thomas Hancock. — Numerous Bankruptcies. — The Common. — Small-PoxHospitals. — Beacon Hill. — Sandemanians. — Geo. Whitefield.—Fire.—General Court meet inTown. — Jealousies in England. —Stamp Act News from there. —Its Effect. — Stamps and StampMasters. — Continental Congress. — Fire. — Lightning Rods first AFTER the fall of Canada, the Home Governmentfound itself laboring under a great accumulation ofdebts. Its own immediate subjects had long groanedunder excessive taxes, and it was hardly possible toincrease them further without the risk of Colonies were represented as prosperous, andthey were looked to with anxious eyes by the Eng-lish Ministers as the only source of relief. They ar-gued that a large part of their present debt arose fromdefending the Colonies, and it was just and reasona-ble that the Colonies should contribute to relieve theMother Country. This was indeed plausible, but itwas only a side view of the subject. It should have * In the Neio Eng. Hist, and G. Reg. for1853, pages 39—i5, is given some account ofthe Adams family of Boston, originally settledat Braintree, now Quincy. To this familybelonged Samuet. and John Adams, two of themost distinguished men of the period now en-tered upon in this History. By a
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