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8307. TAXATION, Parliamentary.—[further continued].

We think the attempt
unnecessary and unwarrantable to raise upon
us, by force or by threats, our proportional
contributions to the common defence, when all
know and themselves acknowledge, we have
fully contributed whenever called to contribute,
in the character of freemen.—
Reply to Lord North's Proposition. Ford ed., i, 479.
(July. 1775)