bedience, as far _as_ the constitution authorized her to demand it;
they were to disclaim all notions of separating from her; and to declare
it was with the deepest regret they beheld a suspension of that
confidence and affection which had so long, and so happily for both,
subsisted between Great Britain and her colonies.

"But they were no less carefully directed at the same time to assert the
rights transmitted to them by their ancestors. These rights they would
never surrender, and would maintain them at all perils. They were
entitled to all the privileges of British subjects, and would not yield
to the unjust pretensions of Parliament, which, in the present treatment
of the colonies, had violated the principles of the constitution and
given them just occasion to be dissatisfied and to rise in opposition.
Parliament might depend this opposition would never cease until those
Acts were wholly repealed that had been the radical cause of the present
disturbances." (Andrews' History of the War with America, Spain and
Holland, from 1775 to 1783, pp. 156, 157.)]

[Footnote 345: Elliott's New England History, Vol. II., Chap. xvi., p.
289.

"Washington and Lee believed the non-importation and exportation
agreements would open the eyes of England; but Patrick Henry agreed with
John and Samuel Adams in believing that _force_ must decide it, and,
like them, was ready to meet any emergency."--_Ib._

"The New York Legislature at once repudiated the doings of the Congress;
but elsewhere it met with a hearty response."--_Ib._, p. 290.]

[Footnote 346: "Whereas, since the close of the last war, the British
Parliament, claiming a power, of right, to bind the people of America by
statutes in all cases whatsoever, hath in some Acts expressly imposed
taxes on them; and in others, under various pretences, but in fact for
the purpose of raising a revenue, hath imposed rates and duties payable
in these colonies, established a Board of Commissioners with
unconstitutional powers, and extended the jurisdiction of Courts of
Admiralty, not only for collecting the said duties, but for the trial of
causes merely arising within the body of a county:

"And whereas, in consequence of other statutes, judges, who before held
only estates at will in their offices, have been made dependent on the
Crown alone for their salaries, and standing armies kept in times of
peace:

"And whereas it has lately been resolved in Parliament, that by force of
a