6402. PARLIAMENT, Injuries by.—
[During] the reigns which preceded his Majesty's
[George III.] the violations of our rights were less alarming, because repeated at more
distant intervals, than that rapid and bold succession
of injuries, which is likely to distinguish
the present from all other periods of American
history. Scarcely have our minds been able
to emerge from the astonishment into which
one stroke of Parliamentary thunder has involved
us, before another more heavy and more
alarming is fallen on us.—
Rights of British America. Washington ed. i, 130.
Ford ed., i, 435.
(1774)
