The history and antiquities of Boston .. . h a dissertation * The Stamp here rep- f Edmund Burke declared that no more resented is copied from the than two or three gentlemen spoke against the London Morning Chron- Act. That there was but one division in icle of 1775. The im- the whole progress of the Bill, and the minor- pression was usually in ity was but 39 or 40. In the House of deep red r)r crimson ink, Lords, he said, I do not recollect that there and often from a different was any debate or division at all. But engraving. The Stamp amongst the two or three speakers against Act was repri
The history and antiquities of Boston .. . h a dissertation * The Stamp here rep- f Edmund Burke declared that no more resented is copied from the than two or three gentlemen spoke against the London Morning Chron- Act. That there was but one division in icle of 1775. The im- the whole progress of the Bill, and the minor- pression was usually in ity was but 39 or 40. In the House of deep red r)r crimson ink, Lords, he said, I do not recollect that there and often from a different was any debate or division at all. But engraving. The Stamp amongst the two or three speakers against Act was reprinted in Bos- the Bill was Col. Barre, who, in reply to Mr. ton by Edes & Gill, in Charles Townsend, the most eloquent of its Queen-street, 1765, in a supporters, made an admirable and forcible folio pamphlet of 24 pages, a copy of which is appeal to the House. Gen. Conway and now before me. A copy may be seen in Mr. Alderman Beckford were the other two.— Lossings Field Book of the Revolution. Brittons Authorship of Junius, p. 37. 87. 690 STAMP-ACT AGITATION. [1765. having special reference to them. Nor should mention be omitted of anessay on the Canon and Feudal Law, by John Adams. A work ofpower and ability. XJnfovorable reports respecting the temper of the people of Bostonwere often circulated in London. These, getting into the gazettes,came back to Boston, and were again published. Indeed, says aLondon paper of the sixth of May, at present all America seems tobe in a violent agitation ; they sing, up and down the streets of Boston,the downfall of Old England, and the rise of New. And a gentle-man in London wrote to a friend in Boston, under date of the eleventhof June, saying, *We have been making an addition to your troublesby levying very heavy duties upon you, and if these are tamely borne,you may yet have a few more. News had been received at Boston, in July, that a large quantity ofstamped paper had been shipped for America, and on the fifth of AugustAvas published fo
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