 | Thomas Hutchinson - 1828 - 568 pages
...act, they require their members, in such case, to promote in the house an application for a repeal ; " for if our trade may be taxed, why not our lands?...why not the produce of our lands, and every thing we possess or make use of? This-, we apprehend, annihilates our charter rights to govern and tax ourselves.... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1819 - 476 pages
...already passed, and exclaim against the distinction between internal and external taxes : « If one trade may be taxed, why not our lands ? Why not the produce of our lands, and every thing we possess or make use of? This, we apprehend, annihilates our charter right to govern and tax ourselves.... | |
 | Alden Bradford - 1822 - 428 pages
...proposed. But our greatest apprehension is, that these proceedings may be preparatory to new taxes : For, if our trade may be taxed, why not our lands...Why not the produce of our lands, and every thing we possess or use ? This, we conceive, annihilates our charter rights to govern and tax ourselves. It... | |
 | Alden Bradford - 1822 - 426 pages
...proposed. But our greatest apprehension is, that these proceedings may be preparatory to new taxes : For, if our trade may be taxed, why not our lands...Why not the produce of our lands, and every thing we possess or use ? This, we conceive, annihilates our charter rights to govern and tax ourselves. It... | |
 | Declaration - 1827 - 364 pages
...Boston, " But our greatest apprehension is, that these proceedings may be preparatory to new taxes : for, if our trade may be taxed, why not our lands...Why not the produce of our lands, and every thing we possess or use ? This, we conceive, annihilates our charter-rights to govern and tax ourselves. It... | |
 | John Sanderson - 1827 - 360 pages
...Boston, " But our greatest apprehension is, that these proceedings may be preparatory to new taxes : for, if our trade may be taxed, why not our lands...Why not the produce of our lands, and every thing we possess or use ? This, we conceive, annihilates our charter-rights to govern and tax ourselves. It... | |
 | Caleb Hopkins Snow - 1828 - 482 pages
...promoters of these extraordinary methods. ' But what still heightens our apprehensions is, that these unexpected proceedings may be preparatory to new taxations...why not the produce of our lands and every thing we possess or make use of? This we apprehend annihilates our charier right to govern and tax ourselves.... | |
 | Thomas Hutchinson - 1828 - 610 pages
...act, they require their members, in such case, to promote in the house an application for a repeal ; " for if our trade may be taxed, why not our lands ?...why not the produce of our lands, and every thing we possess or make use of? This, we apprehend, annihilates our charter rights to govern and tax ourselves.... | |
 | Timothy Pitkin - 1828 - 546 pages
...observe, " but our greatest apprehension is, that these proceedings may be preparatory to new taxes ; for if our trade may be taxed, why not our lands ? Why not the products of our lands and every thing we possess or use ?" " This, we conceive, annihilates our charter... | |
 | Abiel Holmes - 1829 - 650 pages
...which is suffered to remain;" they subjoin : "But what still heightens our apprehensions is, that these unexpected proceedings may be preparatory to new taxations...Why not the produce of our lands, and every thing we possess or make use of? This, we apprehend, annihilates our charter right to govern and tax ourselves.... | |
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... if our trade may be taxed, why not our lands ? Why not the produce of our lands and everything we possess or make use of ? This we apprehend annihilates our charter right to govern and tax ourselves. It strikes at our British privileges, which, as... 
