A history of the American people . NORTH AMERICA 1750, SHOWING CLAIMSARISING OUTOF EXPLORATION. fflE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY Aaron, lknox. GEORGE III. A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE of non - importation and resistance to parliamentarytaxation after its own fashion; but wherever there wereEnglishmen accustomed to political action there wasalways this thought of free association and quick andorganized. cooperation in the air, which no one wassurprised at any time to see acted upon and made aninstrument of agitation. What made the Massachusetts committees of corre-spondence especially significa
A history of the American people . NORTH AMERICA 1750, SHOWING CLAIMSARISING OUTOF EXPLORATION. fflE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY Aaron, lknox. GEORGE III. A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE of non - importation and resistance to parliamentarytaxation after its own fashion; but wherever there wereEnglishmen accustomed to political action there wasalways this thought of free association and quick andorganized. cooperation in the air, which no one wassurprised at any time to see acted upon and made aninstrument of agitation. What made the Massachusetts committees of corre-spondence especially significant and especially tellingin their effect upon affairs was that they were not used,like the Westmoreland Association or the non-im-portation associations of 1769, merefy as a means ofkeeping neighbors steadfast in the observance of asimple resolution of passive resistance, but were em-ployed to develop opinion and originate action frommonth to month,—dilator\T, defensive, or aggressive, asoccasion or a change of circumstances might non-importation associations had been powerfulenough, as some men had reason to know. The
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