all the old colonies on the continent.
The same spirit pervades the whole. Even those colonies which depended
most upon the mother country for the consumption of their productions
entered into similar associations with the others; and nothing was to be
heard of but resolutions for the encouragement of their own
manufactures, the consumption of home products, the discouragement of
foreign articles, and the retrenchment of all superfluities." (English
Annual Register for 1774, Vol. XVII., p. 45.)]

[Footnote 326: Holmes' Annals, etc., Vol. II., pp. 185, 186. These three
Bills were followed by a fourth, legalizing the quartering of the troops
on the inhabitants in the town of Boston.]

[Footnote 327: Bancroft's History of the United States, Vol. VI., Chap.
lii, pp. 503-510. Mr. Bancroft says:

"The next day letters arrived from America, manifesting no change in the
conduct of the colonies. Calumny, with its hundred tongues, exaggerated
the turbulence of the people, and invented wild tales of violence. It
was said at the palace, and the King believed, that there was in Boston
a regular committee for tarring and feathering; and that they were next,
to use the King's expression, 'to pitch and feather' Governor Hutchinson
himself. The press was also employed to rouse the national pride, till
the zeal of the English people for maintaining English supremacy became
equal to the passions of the Ministry. Even the merchants and
manufacturers were made to believe that their command of the American
market depended on the enforcement of the British claim of
authority."--_Ib._, p. 511.]

[Footnote 328: Annual Register for 1774, Vol. XVII., pp. 62, 63. "At the
first introduction, the Bill was received with very general applause.
The cry raised against the Americans, partly the natural effect of their
own acts, and partly of the operations of Government, was so strong as
nearly to overbear the most resolute and determined in the opposition.
Several of those who had been the most sanguine favourers of the
colonies now condemned their behaviour and applauded the measure as not
only just but lenient (even Colonel Barre). He said: 'After having
weighed the noble lord's proposition well, I cannot help giving it my
hearty and determined approval.' Others, indeed (as Dowdeswill and
Edmund Burke), stood firmly by their old ground. They contented
themselves, in that stage of the business, with deprecating the Bill;
predicting the most fatal