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Supposing the stamp act continued and enforced, do you imagine that ill-humour will induce the Americans to give as much for worse manufactures of their own, and use them, preferably to better of ours?
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Franklin questions whether Americans would prefer inferior local goods over better British products due to the Stamp Act.
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But above all this, the state and circumstances of our settlements render such a measure not only proper and eligible, but absolutely necessary.
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