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Virginia outlines its non-importantion agreement...
Virginia outlines its non-importantion agreement...
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June 05, 1769
THE PENNSYLVANIA CHRONICLE & UNIVERSAL ADVERTISER, Philadelphia, June 5, 1769 The entire front page is taken up with the concluded: "Speech of Th-m-s P--wn--ll, Esq. in the House of Commons in Favour of America, concluded" which begins: "Within four or five years past, it was thought advisable to lay internal taxes on the people of the colonies. The questions which this measure & the repeal of it raised & brought into discussion...has taught the colonies to retort the reverse of the proposition by arguing from internal to external..." with much, much more. A terrific letter concerning British taxation in the American colonies.
Page 4 contains an address of the House of Burgesses at Williamsburg to the governor of Virginia, with his response. Reports from Virginia continue to take all of page 5 and part of page 6 as well, much relating to the relations between the colonies with England, including a lengthy document agreed to which outlines 8 notable points, one including: "That they will not...import...any manner of goods, merchandize or manufactures which are, or shall hereafter be taxed by Act of Parliament for the purpose of raising a revenue in America..." and much more (see).
This if followed by a very historic document, being the resolution passed in secret session by the Virginia House of Burgesses in which they challenge England's right to tax Virginians (see). This document cased the Virginia governor to dissolve the House of Burgesses. See the hyperlink for the famous broadside which was issued before the House was dissolved.
Eight pages, 9 1/2 by 11 1/2 inches, nice coat-of-arms in the masthead, nice condition.
This newspaper was a primary means in voicing the anti-British sentiment that was rapidly spreading throughout the colonies prior to the American Revolution. The paper gained much notoriety when Goddard printed an article voicing his support for the Boston Tea party. The paper's sympathies and general revolutionary message were a cause of great concern to the British. Soon the newspaper was heavily taxed for its delivery by the Crown Post (the colonial mail system in use at the time), and later the Crown Post simply refused to deliver the publication, driving the newspaper out of business in 1773. This prompted Goddard and Benjamin Franklin to establish an alternative mail system independent of the Crown Post authorities. This alternative system ultimately became the basis of a postal system that would later become the US Post Office. (Wikipedia)
Category: The 1600's and 1700's
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