Colonial Opposition to Imperial Authority During the French and Indian War Volume 1, Nos. 1-3 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 Excerpt: ... did not wish to furnish assistance "and purposely started these disputes to furnish a pretence for their conduct. Had this been before a doubt, their last long message and refusal to establish a Militia would have made it clear." Pa. Arch., 1748-56, ii, 369. "Pa. Col. Bee, vi, 510, 525, 526 et seq., 569-585. They told Morris that several inhabitants of Philadelphia had offered to pay the proprietors' share of the 50,000 and rely on him to repay them. This they asserted was another proof of the justice of the tax, and they now hoped that the governor would sign the bill. It was clear and concise although considerably overdrawn in some respects. A man less given to argument than Morris might have been overwhelmed by such an array of historical and legal data, but he was unconvinced and adhered to his demand for amendments.72 Refusing to accept his amendments or to pass a militia act the assembly adjourned for a month, leaving the province without funds. When they met again in September the controversy was renewed. After blaming the assembly for Braddock's defeat, the governor answered in detail the charges made by them during the preceding session. In reply to their statement that they did not enjoy "disputations" his answer was "But let your Minutes be examined for Fifteen years past, not to go higher, and in them will be found more artifice, more time and money spent in frivolous controversies, more unparalleled abuses of your Governors, and more undutifulness to the Crown, than in all the rest of his Majesty's colonies put together."73 The governor's statement was in the main true, but the inference which he wished to have drawn from it--that the assembly was entirely in the wrong--by no means followed. The proprie...