Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . lf t(i the principle, and by theMinistrys mability to carry the repeal except at this price. Atthe time all seemed well. The colonies had won their practicalpoint. After the violent storm there was at once, said Burke, anunparalleled calm. But beneath this calm there were still allthe elements of danger. Opinion in America was ripening feeling in England was growing so fast that a humiliatingsurrend
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . lf t(i the principle, and by theMinistrys mability to carry the repeal except at this price. Atthe time all seemed well. The colonies had won their practicalpoint. After the violent storm there was at once, said Burke, anunparalleled calm. But beneath this calm there were still allthe elements of danger. Opinion in America was ripening feeling in England was growing so fast that a humiliatingsurrender had been made. In 1767 Charles Townshend, drivenon by the courtiers, as Burke puts it, began to try thatimpossible task, at once to tax and to please. To render the tax palatable to the partisans of American reveune. hemade a preamble stating the necessity of such a revenue. To close withthe American distinction, this revenue was external or port duty; but agamto soften it to the other party, it was a duty of supply. To gratify thecolonists it was laid on British manufactures; to satisfy the merchants ofBritain tlie duty was trivial, and (except that on tea, Avliich touched only. 446 ^.V Eli A OF NEW DEFARTUBES. [1742 the devoted East ludia Company) on none of the grand objects of coimteraet the American contraband, tlie duty on tea was reduced from asbilliug to threepence. But to secure the favour of those who vvoukl taxAmerica, tlie scene of collection was clianged, and with the rest it was leviedin tlie colonies. What need I say more? (Burke.) The estimated revenue of £40,000 was to pay salaries ofjudges and officials in America. But ? the tine-spun scheme hadthe usual fate of all exquisite policy. The Americans saAv in ita vista of corruption and jobbery, placemen and saAv the whole scheme of taxation revived, and theyretaliated by repudiating the distinction between taxes andduties ; b}^ clamouring not merely for no taxation, but also f
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