Letters From a Farmer in Pennsylvania to the Inhabitants of the British Colonie
Letters From a Farmer in Pennsylvania to the Inhabitants of the British Colonie
John Dickinson
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God hath joined them ; no " Britifh parliament can feparate them ; to endeavour " to do it is to flab our vitals. " My pofition is this — I repeat it — I will maintain it " to my laft hour — Taxation and reprefentation are in- " feparable. This pofition is ounded on the laws of " nature ; it is more, it is itfelf an eternal law of na- 78 LETTER VII. taxed without our own confent given by ourfelves, or our reprefentatives. We are therefore 1 fpeak. it with grief I fpeak it with indignation we ar...e flaves. " Miferabile vulgus. A miferable tribe. A FARMER. " ture ; for whatever is a man's own, is abfolutely his " own ; and no man hath a right to take it from him " without his confent, either expreffed by himself or " reprefentative ; whoever attempts to do it, attempts "an injury; whoever does it, commits a robbery; he " throws down the diftin&ion between liberty and fla- " very." " There is not a blade of grafs, in the moft " obfcure corner of the kingdom, which is not, which " was not, reprefented fince the constitution began : " there is not a blade of grafs, which when taxed, was " not taxed by the confent of the proprietor." " The " forefathers of the Americans did not leave their na- " tive country, and fubje£t themfelves to every danger " and diftrefs, to be reduced to the ftate of flavery.
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