Colonel Barre on the
subject.

3. In the third place, Colonel Barre denied that the colonies had been
defended by the arms of England, and said, on the contrary, "they have
nobly taken arms in your defence." It is true the colonists carried on
their own local contests with the Indians. The northern colonies
conceived the idea of driving the French out of America, and twice
attacked Quebec for that purpose, but they failed; and the French and
Indians made such encroachments upon them that they implored aid from
England "to prevent their being driven into the sea." It was not until
England "nobly took up arms" in their behalf, and sent navies and armies
for their "defence," that the progress of French arms and Indian
depredations were arrested in America, and the colonists were delivered
from enemies who had disturbed their peace and endangered their safety
for more than a century. At the close of the last French war, the
colonies themselves, through their Legislatures, gratefully acknowledged
their indebtedness to the mother country for their deliverance and
safety, which, without her aid, they said they never could have secured.

APPENDIX B.

OPINIONS OF MR. GRENVILLE, MR. PITT, AND LORD CAMDEN (FORMERLY CHIEF
JUSTICE PRATT) ON THE STAMP ACT AND ITS REPEAL.

The great commoner, Pitt, was not present in the Commons when the
Declaratory and Stamp Acts were passed in 1765; but he was present at
one sitting when an address to the King, in reply to a speech from the
Throne, relating to opposition in America to the Stamp Act, was
discussed, and in which the propriety of repealing that Act was mooted
and partially argued. Mr. Pitt held the right of Parliament to impose
external taxes on the colonies by imposing duties on goods imported into
them, but not to impose internal taxes, such as the Stamp Act imposed.
In the course of his speech Mr. Pitt said:

"It is a long time since I have attended in Parliament. When the
resolution was taken in the House to tax America, I was ill in bed. If I
could have endured to have been carried in my bed, so great was the
agitation of my mind for the consequences, I would have solicited some
kind hand to have laid me down on this floor, to have borne my testimony
against it. It is now an Act that has been passed. I would speak with
decency of every act of this House; but I must beg the indulgence to
speak of it with freedom.

"As my health and life are so very infirm and precarious