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• We the subscribers, inhabitants of the town of [blank] : having taken into our serious consideration the precarious state of the liberties of North-America ... Do, in the presence of God, solemnly and in good faith, covenant and engage with each other, 1st, that from henceforth we will suspend all commercial intercourse with the said island of Great Britain ... Witness our hands, June [blank] 1774
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• At a meeting of the freeholders and other inhabitants of the town of Boston : duly qualified and legally warned, in public town meeting assembled at Faneuil-Hall, on Tuesday the 26th day of July, Anno Domini 1774 ... Voted, that a printed copy of the following letter to our brethren in the several towns ... be forthwith signed by the town-clerk, and transmitted by the Committee of Correspondence
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• In Provincial Congress, Cambridge, December 6, 1774 : The operation of the cruel and iniquitous Boston-port-bill, that instrument of ministerial vengeance, having reduced our once happy capital ... It is therefore resolved, that it be recommended to our constituents the inhabitants of the other towns ... that they farther contribute liberally to alleviate the burden
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• American independence the interest and glory of Great-Britain : A new edition. To which is added, a copious appendix, containing two additional Letters to the Legislature; a letter to Edmund Burke, Esq; controverting his Principles of American Government. And a postscript, containing new Arguments on the Subject; A Draught for a Bill proposed to be brought into Parliament for restoring Peace and Harmony between Great-Britain and British America, and for perpetuating the same: Together with The essential Materials for a proposed Grand British League and Confederacy, to be entered into by Great-Britain and all the States of British America. The whole of which shews, beyond Denial or Doubt, that by granting the Colonists an unrestrained civil Freedom and Legislative Independence, we may most effectually secure their future Commercial Dependence upon, and consequently shall best promote the Interest and support the Glory of, Great-Britain. It is not to be hoped, in the corrupt State of human Nature, that any Nation will be subject to another, any longer than it finds its own Account in it, and cannot help itself. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * No Creatures suck the Teats of their Dams longer than they can draw Milk from them, or can provide themselves with better Food; nor will any Country continue their Subjection to another, only because their great Grand-Mothers were acquainted. This is the Course of human Affairs, and all wise States will always have it before their Eyes. Trenchard on Plantations and Colonies, in Cato's Letters, No. 106. Anno 1722
  by: Cartwright, John
  Published: (1775)
• American independence the interest and glory of Great Britain : or, arguments to prove, that not only in taxation, but in trade, manufactures, and government, the colonies are entitled to an entire independency on the British legislature; and that it can only be by a formal Declaration of these Rights, and forming thereupon a friendly League with them, that the true and lasting Welfare of both Countries can be promoted. In a Series of Letters to the Legislature. To which are added copious Notes; containing Reflections on the Boston and Quebec Acts; and a full Justification of the People of Boston, for destroying the British-Taxed Tea; submitted to the Judgment, not of those who have none but borrowed Party-Opinions, but of the Candid and Honest
  by: Cartwright, John
  Published: (1774)