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Show I I7 ] [ 16 l ' it would then be fer the good of the giggle of the colony, as well as necefl‘aiy‘r' to government, that the parliament thou P dities imported ; that duty is added to the firl't colt, and other charges on the corn- modity, and when it is offered to fale, makes a part of the price. If the people do not like it at that price, they refufe it; taxAt.h€Intlo not think it would be neceflary. they are not obliged to pay it. If an aflembly could pofiihly be f0 abfurd ternal tax is forced from the people With- as to refufe railing the fupplies requifite for the maintenance of government. among them, they could not long remain in fuch a fituation; the diforders and confufion occafioned by it mufl: foon bring them to reafon. . If it fhould not, ought not the right to be in Great-Britain of applying . d ? But an in- Out their confent, ifnot laid by their own reprefentatives. The ftamp-aét fays, we {hall have no commerce, make no exchange 'of property with each other, neither pur- chafe norgrant, nor recoVer debts; we {hall neither m‘arry nor make our wills, un'lel's we pay fuch and fuch films, and thus it is intended to extOrt our money from us, or ruin us by the confequences a ri'hn.leAyright only to be ufed 1n fuch a cafe, I fhould have no objeéhon to, {up-- of refuting to pay it. pofing it to be ufed merely for the good of . the people of the Colony. duty to be laid on the necefTaries of life . But who is to judge of that, Bri- ' tain or the Colony? A. Thofe that feel can heft Judge. imported into your colony, will not that be the fame thing in its efeé'ts as an internal tax ? (L You fay the Colonies have always fubmitted to external taxes, and objeét to the right of'parliament only in laying internal taxes 3 now can you thew that there is any kind of difference between the two taxes to the Colony on VJthl] they may be laid P (LBut fuppofing the internal tax or . A. I do not know a fingle article im- ported into the Northern Colonies, but what they can either do without, or make themfelves. (L Don't you think cloth from England abfolutely neceffary to them P A. No, by no means abfolutely necef- fary ; with induftry and good management, A. I think the difference 13 very great. An external tax is a duty laid on consimfio- ities they may very well fupply themfelves with all they want. D (Lwru |