A letter to Lord Chatham, concerning the present war of Great Britain against America; Reviewing Candidly and Impartially Its unhappy Cause and Consequence; and wherein the doctrine of Sir William Blackstone, As Explained In his celebrated Commentaries...
- Manasseh Dawes (author)
- Jack P. Greene (collection editor)
Siding with Richard Price’s earlier work in favor of colonial rights but dismayed that it did not get the attention it deserved, the writer of this essay set out to counter the attack on “the laws and constitution” by those “endeavoring to persuade the consciences of the subjects, that they are bound to obey commands, unconstitutional and illegal.” Americans, the essay went on, did no wrong, but were “an increasing people, daily improving in arts and science…and wealth.” This “was their crime.”
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