A letter to the Reverend Josiah Tucker, D.D. Dean of Glocester, in answer to his humble address and earnest appeal
- Samuel Estwick (author)
- Jack P. Greene (collection editor)
The text presents a distinctive set of views, excoriating both Josiah Tucker and Samuel Johnson, the first for countenancing the idea of setting the colonies free; the second for attempting to enslave them. The argument contends instead for the old “mixed government, or constitution of England,” and a well-regulated commercial policy, rather than Tucker’s proposal of free trade with the world.
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