Essays of Benjamin Franklin

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URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-127700

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Author:: Franklin, Benjamin http://d-nb.info/gnd/118534912

Title:: Essays of Benjamin Franklin

Place of publication:: New York

Publisher:: G. P. Putnam's Sons

Year of publication:: 1927

Scope:: xi, 273 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: VII. Causes of the american discontents before 1768

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VII CAUSES OF THE AMERICAN DISCONTENTS BEFORE 1768.” The waves never rise but when the winds blow.—Prov. SIR:—As the cause of the present ill-humor in America, and of the resolutions taken there to pur- chase less of our manufactures, does not seem to be generally understood, it may afford some satisfaction to your readers, if you give them the following short historical state of facts. From the time that the colonies were first consid- ered as capable of granting aids to the crown, down to the end of the last war, it is said that the constant mode of obtaining those aids was by requisition made from the crown, through its governors, to the several assemblies, in circular-letters from the Secre- tary of State, in his Majesty's name: setting forth the occasion, requiring them to take the matter into consideration, and expressing a reliance on their pru- dence, duty, and affection to his Majesty’s govern- ment, that they would grant such sums, or raise such I This paper appeared in the London Chronicle of Jan, 7, 1768, and was reprinted the same year as a postscript to a pamphlet entitled Sentiments of America. For the circumstances which led to its pub- lication see Franklin's letters to his son, dated Dec. 19, 1767, and Janu- ary 9, 1768, and his letter to T. Wharton, Feb. 20, 1768. In the latter letter to his son he complains that the editor of the Chronicle, “one Jones,” “has drawn the teeth and pared the nails of my paper, so that it can neither scratch nor bite. It seems only to paw and mumble.” 127

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