 | 1897 - 678 Seiten
...methods may be taken as will effectually prevent these proceedings against us. ... [We fear] that these unexpected proceedings may be preparatory to new taxations...for if our trade may be taxed, why not our lands? . . . This we apprehend annihilates our charter right to govern and tax ourselves. It strikes at our... | |
 | William Vincent Wells - 1865 - 554 Seiten
...heightens our apprehensions is, that these unexpected proceedings may be preparatory to more extensive taxations upon us. For if our trade may be taxed,...not our lands? Why not the produce of our lands, and in short everything we possess or make use of? This, we apprehend, annihilates our charterrights to... | |
 | William Willis - 1865 - 964 Seiten
...exertions to procure the repeal of the act; in them it was observed, "if our trade maybe taxed, wby not our lands ? Why not the produce of our lands and every thing we possess and make use of? This we apprehend annihilates our charter to go%rern and tax ourselves." The... | |
 | John Gorham Palfrey - 1873 - 498 Seiten
...significant and effective as a popular appeal: — " What still heightens our apprehensions is that these unexpected proceedings may be preparatory to new taxations...our lands ? Why not the produce of our lands, and everything we possess or make use of ? This, we apprehend, annihilates our charter-right to govern... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1874 - 580 Seiten
...Boston, afterward adopted in Faneuil Hall, where, repeating the very arguments of Otis, he says, " If our trade may be taxed, why not our lands, why not the produce of our lands, and everything we possess or make use of ? " And then, advancing in the subject, he asks : " If taxes are... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1876 - 578 Seiten
...Boston, afterward adopted in Faneuil Hall, where, repeating the very arguments of Otis, he says, " If our trade may be taxed, why not our lands, why not the produce of our lands, and everything we possess or make use of ? " And then, advancing in the subject, he asks : "If taxes are... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant, Sydney Howard Gay - 1879 - 758 Seiten
...heightens our apprehensions is, that these unexpected proceedings may be preparatory to more extensive taxations upon us. For if our trade may be taxed,...our lands ? Why not the produce of our lands, and in short everything we possess or make use of ? .... If taxes are laid upon us in any shape, without... | |
 | 1880 - 698 Seiten
...scarce possible for us to earn our bread. But what still heightens our apprehensions is, that these unexpected proceedings may be preparatory to new taxations...not our lands ? Why not the produce of our lands and everything we possess or make use of ? This we apprehend annihilates our charter right to govern and... | |
 | James Kendall Hosmer - 1885 - 638 Seiten
...increases our apprehensions is, that these unexpected Proceedings may be preparatory to more extensive Taxations upon us. For if our Trade may be taxed, why not our Lands, the Produce of our lands, and in short everything we possess or make use of ? This, we apprehend, annihilates... | |
 | Boston (Mass.). Registry Department - 1886 - 372 Seiten
...Bread. But what still hightens our Apprehensions is that those unexpected proceedings may be preparitory to new Taxations upon us ; For if our Trade may be...Why not the produce of our Lands and every Thing we possess or make use of? This we apprehend annihilates our Charter Right to Govern and Tax ourselves... | |
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... if our trade may be taxed, why not our lands ? Why not the produce of our lands and everything we possess or make use of ? This we apprehend annihilates our charter right to govern and tax ourselves. It strikes at our British privileges, which, as... 
