Benjamin Franklin: “You will find, that if the act is not repealed, they will take very little of your manufactures in a short time.”

And as Canada is chiefly supported by that trade, if it could be drawn into the hands of the English (as it might be if the Indians were supplied on moderate terms, and by honest traders appointed by and acting for the public) that alone…

But above all this, the state and circumstances of our settlements render such a measure not only proper and eligible, but absolutely necessary.

Some manufactures we could make, but are forbidden, and must take them of British merchants: the whole price is a tax paid to Britain.

The rest depends on a man's own industry and virtue.