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The Conciliatory Resolution plus Congress' response to it...
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The Conciliatory Resolution plus Congress' response to it...
Item # 710758
September 07, 1775
THE NEW ENGLAND CHRONICLE OR THE ESSEX GAZETTE, Cambridge, Sept. 7, 1775 A
* John Hancock type signature
* The Conciliatory Resolution
* Lexington & Concord report
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.
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 historic front page reports.
Four pages, a small piece from a lower corner affects just 4 letters, minor archival strengthening at the interior spine, very nice condition.
Category: Revolutionary War
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