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Edmund Burke's conciliatory plan...
Edmund Burke's conciliatory plan...
Item # 703310
May 13, 1775
THE PENNSYLVANIA EVENING POST, Philadelphia, May 13, 1775
* Edmund Burke - Anglo-Irish statesman speech
* Conciliatory plan with the American colonies
* Prelude to the American Revolutionary War
All of pages 1 and 2 are taken up with continued discussion in the House of Lords: "Authentic Debates on the New-England Fishery Bill". This was one of the notable Restraining Acts that would eventually lead to the Revolutionary War.
Page 3 contains Mr. Burke's nine point conciliatory plan, taking over half the page, and including: "That the colonies & plantations in North America...have not had the liberty & privilege of electing & sending knights, citizens & burgresses to represent them in parliament..." and "That the said colonies have been liable to & bounden by several subsidies, payments, rates & taxes..." and "that the several acts...relating to America be repealed..." and more.
An historic report & listed here in detail.
Four pages, 8 by 10 inches, various damp staining is mostly near the margins, good condition.
Category: Revolutionary War
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