ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the last session of the protest against the Bill to repeal the American Stamp Act. The ability of Britain's North American Colonies, to bear without inconveniency the proportion laid on them by the Stamp Act, appears to be most unquestionable. Not only the right, but the expediency, and necessity of the supreme legislature, exerting its authority to lay a general tax on American Colonies, whenever the wants of the public make it fitting and reasonable, that all the Provinces should contribute in a proper proportion to the defence of the whole, appear to be undeniable. The opinion of some countenance given by the Legislature itself, in consenting to this Bill, for the Repeal of the Stamp Act, may greatly promote the contagion of a most dangerous doctrine, destructive to all Government, which has spread itself over all North American Colonies.
