1768] Essays 131
articles, at the expense of the several provinces. And
this act continued in force when the Stamp Act was
repealed; though, if obligatory on the assemblies, it
equally militated against the American principle
above mentioned, that money is not to be raised on
English subjects without their consent.
The colonies nevertheless, being put into high
good-humor by the repeal of the Stamp Act, chose to
avoid a fresh dispute upon the other, it being temporary
 and soon to expire, never, as they hoped, to
revive again; and in the meantime they, by various
ways, in different colonies, provided for the quartering
 of the troops; either by acts of their own assemblies,
 without taking notice of the act of Parliament,
or by some variety or small diminution, as of salt and
vinegar, in the supplies required by the act; that
what they did might appear a voluntary act of their
own, and not done in due obedience to an act of
Parliament, which, according to their ideas of their
rights, they thought hard to obey.
It might have been well if the matter had then
passed without notice; but, a governor having written
 home an angry and aggravating letter upon this
conduct in the Assembly of his province, the outed
proposer * of the Stamp Act and his adherents, then
in the opposition, raised such a clamor against America,
 as being in rebellion, and against those who had
been for the repeal of the Stamp Act, as having thereby
 been encouragers of this supposed rebellion, that
it was thought necessary to enforce the quartering
act by another act of Parliament, taking away from
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