Benjamin Franklin: “If the agent and his deputies, and the commissaries, are not to trade, should it not be a part of their oath, that they…”

We are obliged to carry a great part of our produce directly to Britain; and where the duties laid upon it lessen its price to the planter, or it sells for less than it would in foreign markets, the difference is a tax paid to Britain.

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

The gaining of the back Indian trade from the French, by the navigation of the lakes, &c. would of itself greatly weaken our enemies:--it being now their principal support, it seems highly probable, that in time they must be subjected to…

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