Benjamin Franklin: “All this is paid by the people, who are oppressed by taxes so occasioned, and thereby rendered less able to contribute…”

You are a member of that parliament, and have formed part of that majority, which has condemned my native country to destruction.

That it would be treating them as a conquered people, and not as true British subjects.

If the English would advance one step further, or cover themselves where they are, it must be at once, by one large step over the mountains, with a numerous and military colony.

By our greatly encreasing the demand and consumption of British manufactures, their price is considerably raised of late years; the advantage is clear profit to Britain, and enables its people better to pay great taxes; and much of it…