Benjamin Franklin: “We cannot all fly with our families; and if we could, how shall we subsist?”

Many quarrels and wars have arisen between the colonies and Indian nations, through the bad conduct of traders, who cheat the Indians after making them drunk, &c. to the great expence of the colonies both in blood and treasure.

Taxes paid in Britain by the landholder or artificer must enter into and increase the price of the produce of land and manufactures made of it; and great part of this is paid by consumers in the colonies, who thereby pay a considerable…

That the colonies have no representatives in parliament.

II. p. 118.--The truth is, that the Indians considered their lands as mere hunting-manors, and not as farms.