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and always spoke of it with the utmost respect and 
veneration. Arbitrary ministers, they thought, 
might possibly at times attempt to oppress them; 
but they relied on it that the Parliament, on applica- 
tion, would always give redress. They remembered, 
with gratitude, a strong instance of this when a bill 
was brought into Parliament with a clause to make 
royal instructions laws in the colonies, which the 
House of Commons would not pass, and it was thrown 
out. 
(). And have they not still the same respect for 
Parliament? 
A. No, it 1s greatly lessened. 
Q. To what cause is that owing? 
A. To a concurrence of causes; the restraints 
lately laid on their trade, by which the bringing of 
foreign gold and silver into the colonies was pre- 
vented; the prohibition of making paper money 
among themselves, and then demanding a new and 
heavy tax by stamps, taking away at the same time 
trials by juries, and refusing to receive and hear their 
humble petitions. 
Q. Don’t you think they would submit to the 
Stamp Act, if it was modified, the obnoxious parts 
taken out, and the duty reduced to some particulars 
of small moment? 
A. No, they will never submit to it. 
Q. What do you think is the reason the people in 
America increase faster than in England? 
A. Because they marry younger, and more 
generally. 
Q. Why so? 
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