The Conciliatory Resolution plus Congress' response to it...

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September 07, 1775

THE NEW ENGLAND CHRONICLE OR THE ESSEX GAZETTE, Cambridge, Sept. 7, 1775

* Conciliatory Resolution
* Revolutionary War
* John Hancock

A very historic issue as the front page contains not only the full text of the Conciliatory Resolution by Parliament, but the Continental Congress' lengthy response to it, signed in type by its President: John Hancock.
The Conciliatory Resolution was a resolution passed by the British Parliament in an attempt to reach a peaceful settlement with the thirteen colonies immediately prior to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War. But it proved to be too little, too late. Congress responded to it, with the full text contained on the front page of this issue, one portion noting: "The Congress took the said resolution into consideration, and are, thereupon, of opinion, that colonies of America are entitled to the sole and exclusive privilege of giving and granting their own money....To propose, therefore...that the monies given by the colonies shall be subject to the disposal of parliament alone, is to propose that they shall relinquish this right of enquiry, and put it in the power of others to render their gifts ruinous....The proposition seems also to have been calculated more particularly to lull into fatal security our well-affected fellow-subjects on the other side the water, till time should be given for the operation of those arms, which a British minister pronounced would instantaneously reduce the "cowardly" sons of America to unreserved submission..." and so much more (see).
There is war-related content on the inside pages, including a nice back page letter concerning the Battle of Lexington & Concord, but all this pales in comparison to to historic front page reports.
Complete in four pages, never bound nor trimmed, various wear at folds with some old tape stains which disfigure but cause no loss of readability. Various archival mends to old tears and archivally rejoined at the spine.

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From Seth Kallar:
Continental Congress July 1775 Message Asserting American Sovereignty and Rejecting Parliament’s Appeal for Peace. Drafted by Thomas Jefferson and Printed at Harvard.
With London News Reports on Battles of Lexington and Concord.
“The colonies of America are entitled to the sole and exclusive privilege of giving and granting their own money...It is a high breach of this privilege for any body of men, extraneous to their constitutions...to take to themselves the authority of judging of their conditions... it is the DESPOTISM of the CROWN and the SLAVERY of the people which the ministry aim at. For refusing those attempts, and for that only the Americans have been inhumanly murdered by the King’s Troops.”

The New-England Chronicle, or the Essex Gazette, September 7, 1775. Newspaper printed at Stoughton Hall, Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Front-page publication of Opinion of Congress in Response to Lord North’s Conciliatory Proposal (July 31, 1775), written by Thomas Jefferson and signed in type by John Hancock. Also the Resolution of Congress Clarifying Non-Importation Agreement (August 1, 1775). The original subscriber was Revolutionary War surgeon Dr. John Wingate. 4 pp.
#30034.05 $7,500

Category: Revolutionary War