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have no representatives in this legislature, I think it 
will never be submitted to; they will oppose it to the 
last; they do not consider it as at all necessary for 
you to raise money on them by your taxes; because 
they are, and always have been, ready to raise money 
by taxes among themselves, and to grant large sums, 
equal to their abilities, upon requisition from the 
crown. 
They have not only granted equal to their abilities, 
but, during all the last war, they granted far beyond 
their abilities, and beyond their proportion with this 
country (you yourselves being judges), to the amount 
of many hundred thousand pounds; and this they 
did freely and readily, only on a sort of promise, from 
the Secretary of State, that it should be recommended 
to Parliament to make them compensation. It was 
accordingly recommended to Parliament, in the most 
honorable manner for them. America has been 
greatly misrepresented and abused here, in papers, 
and pamphlets, and speeches, as ungrateful, and un- 
reasonable, and unjust; in having put this nation to 
an immense expense for their defence, and refusing 
to bear any part of that expense. The colonies raised, 
paid, and clothed near twenty-five thousand men 
during the last war; a number equal to those sent 
from Britain, and far beyond their proportion; they 
went deeply into debt in doing this, and all their 
taxes and estates are mortgaged for many years to 
come, for discharging that debt. 
Government here was at the same time very sensi- 
ble of this. The colonies were recommended to Par- 
liament. Every year the King sent down to the 
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