William Nelson
Published: 2015-07-21
Total Pages: 732
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Excerpt from Extracts From American Newspapers Much more space than usual is devoted in this volume to discussions of the political and economic questions of the day as contained in the American newspapers for 1770-1771, and which had already figured in the public prints of the preceding two years, as shown in Volume XXVI of the New Jersey archives. The threat to buy no goods imported from Great Britain, which had been so effective in alarming the English merchants, and causing them to use their influence with the British Ministry to secure the repeal of the Stamp Act, led to the Non-Importation Agreement, as it was called, whereby the people of the various colonies pledged themselves not to import nor to use any goods of English manufacture, until such time as the Parliament should repeal the acts imposing duties on tea and sugar, and the Ministry removed the punitive restrictions which they had inflicted upon Boston Port for its contumacy. This agreement, as is shown in the following pages, is still upheld by the adoption of resolutions by the freeholders, merchants and traders of Elizabethtown of New Brunswick, of Essex County, of the students of Nassau Hall, of Sussex County, of Somerset County, of Burlington County, etc. These declarations uniformly pledged undying allegiance to King George III, but protested against the "ministerial physicians," as they were called, who caused the Parliament to enact oppressive laws for the taxation of the colonies, and who interfered with their local government. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.