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They did not feel the inconvenience of the tax, but they felt its oppression.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “They did not feel the inconvenience of the tax, but they felt its oppression.”
Editor's note · Context
Sumner notes that the oppression felt by the colonists was more significant than the actual inconvenience of the tax.
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