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:: XVIII. Vindication and offer from congress to parliament

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Benjamin Franklin [2775 ‘““that these colonies had been planted and estab- lished without any expense to the state.” * New York is the only colony in the founding of which England can pretend to have been at any ex- pense; and that was only the charge of a small ar- mament to take it from the Dutch, who planted it. But to retain this colony at the peace, another at that time full as valuable, planted by private countrymen of ours, was given up by the crown to the Dutch in exchange, viz., Surinam, now a wealthy sugar colony in Guiana, and which, but for that cession, might still have remained in our possession. Of late, in- deed, Britain has been at some expense in planting two colonies, Georgia and Nova Scotia; but those are not in our confederacy ?; and the expense she has been at in their name has chiefly been in grants of sums unnecessarily large, by way of salaries to of- ficers sent from England, and in jobs to friends, whereby dependants might be provided for; those excessive grants not being requisite to the welfare and good government of the colonies, which good government (as experience in many instances of other colonies has taught us) may be much more fru- * “ Veneris, March 10, 1642.—Whereas, the plantations in New Eng- land have, by the blessing of the Almighty, had good and prosperous success, without any public charge to this state, and are now likely to prove very happy for the propagation of the Gospel in those parts, and very beneficial and commodious to this kingdom and nation; the Commons now assembled in Parliament, etc., etc., etc.” 2 Georgia joined the other colonies soon afterwards. On the 20th of July, 1775, a letter was read in Congress from the convention of Georgia, giving notice that delegates had been appointed in that colony to attend the Continental Congress. 190 TRF

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