The new Larned History for ready reference, reading and research; the actual words of the world's best historians biographers and specialists; a complete system of history for all uses, extending to all countries and subjects and representing the better and newer literature of history . rsof John Dickinson UNITED STATES, 1767-1768 duties levied on paints, glass, tea, etc., were un-doubtedly such a regulation, but it was at oncecontended here that, in point of fact and of prin-ciple, this was as much an exercise of the allegedright of Parliamentary taxation for the purposeof raising a revenue f
The new Larned History for ready reference, reading and research; the actual words of the world's best historians biographers and specialists; a complete system of history for all uses, extending to all countries and subjects and representing the better and newer literature of history . rsof John Dickinson UNITED STATES, 1767-1768 duties levied on paints, glass, tea, etc., were un-doubtedly such a regulation, but it was at oncecontended here that, in point of fact and of prin-ciple, this was as much an exercise of the allegedright of Parliamentary taxation for the purposeof raising a revenue for imperial purposes as theStamp Act itself. Although it was passed by theopponents of the Stamp Act, and by the Rocking-ham ministry, who professed to be our friends,the act met at once with opposition here. Latein October, 1767, it was denounced by a pubUcmeeting in Boston, which suggested a non-importa-tion agreement as the best means of renderingits operations ineffective. These agreements werefavorite expedients for manifesting political dis-content in those days, but, as they were voluntary,their obligation sat somewhat loosely upon thosewho signed them. The truth is, that those whowere most decided in opposition to the course ofthe ministry were somewhat puzzled as to the. JOHN DICKINSON plan they should adopt to exhibit the earnestnessof their discontent. . While the leaders of theopposition throughout the country were doubtfuland hesitating, there appeared in the PennsylvaniaChronicle for the 2d of December, 1767, the firstof a series of letters on the pohtical situation,afterwards known as the Farmers Letters, . .The letters, fourteen in number, followed one an-other in quick succession, and they were readby men of all classes and opinions throughout thecontinent as no other work of a political kindhad been hitherto read in America. It was, ofcourse, soon known that John Dickinson was theirauthor, and people remembered that he was theperson who had formulated what was
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