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Show [681‘ [ 69 ] It is faid, that the diflurbances, if there were any, before the repeal, were flight; and without dilfleulty or inconvenience might have been fupprefi'ed. For an anfwer to this affertion I will fend you to the great author and patron of the Stamp Act, who certainly mean- the fublEquent diflnrbances in America. They ing well to the authority of this Country, and fully apprized of the {late of that, made, before a repeal was fo much as agitated in this. were dif'rurbanccs which feemed to him and his friends tojufi'ify as {irong a promife of hip- Houfe, the motion which is on your Journals; and which, to fave the Clerk the trouble of III/[Ill ville thought necefiary to qualify by the name of an fifnrrefilon, and the epithet of a woollz'om force: terms much ftronger than any, by which, thofe who then fupported his motion, have ever fince thought proper to diftinguilh turning to it, Iwill now read to you. It was for an amendment to the addrefs of the 17th of December 1765 : " To exprefi our jig/l refentment and indigna- port, as hath been ufual to give in the begin- ning of a war with the molt powerful and declared enemies. \Vhentlte accounts of the American Governors came before the Houfe, they appeared flronger even than the warmth of public imagination had painted them; fo much fironger, that the papers on your table hear me out in flying, that all the late difiur- tion (12‘ the outrageous tumults and infur- hances, which have been at one time the Mi- reé‘tions w/oz'c/o loom been excited and carried nifter's motives for the repeal of five out of on in North flnzerica; and at the rejfllnnce fix of the new court taxes, and are now his given [3y open and rebelliousforee to the execution of the laws in 1/30! port oflyir Mojefly's ‘ domlniom. And to More lair Mry'rfly, float bf: fizitlg/nl Commons, animated with the wnrnufl duly and allaebnzent to 111': royal pen/on and government, will fi‘mly and efeéi‘nol/y [rapport l3]: Moje/I'y in all fuel) meefnrer a: fiall be neceflnry for pi'e'fél‘vlflg andflrpporting tloe legal pretences for refufing to repeal that fixth, did not amount-why do I compare them? no, not to a tenth part of the tumults and violence which prevailed long before the repeal of that commander in chief General Gage, who, in his dependence of the Coloniei~ on z‘be Mother Country, 86c. 85c." Letter of the 4th of November, from New York, thus reprefents the {late of things: Here was certainly a diflurbanee preceding the repeal; fuch a dillurbahce as Mr. Grenville aft. Minifiry cannot refufe the authority of the " It is a'gfi'enlt to flzy, from the highefl to " the lowel't, wloo lone not oeen acceflory to flair G‘ iniurreclion, elf/Jer liy tori/[Lg or mutual E 3 " agree~ |