nt authority to advise his dismission, and nothing
less could have stopped his measures." (History of the United States,
Vol. VI., Chap. xxvii., pp. 47-49.)]

[Footnote 295: "The colonists had been previously restrained from
manufacturing certain articles for their own consumption. Other Acts
confined them to the exclusive use of British merchandise. The addition
of duties put them wholly in the power and discretion of Great Britain.
'We are not,' said they, 'permitted to import from any nation other than
our own parent state, and have been, in some cases, restrained by her
from manufacturing for ourselves; and she claims a right to do so in
every instance which is incompatible with her interest. To these
restrictions we have hitherto submitted; but she now rises in her
demands, and imposes duties on those commodities, the purchasing of
which elsewhere than in her own market her laws forbid, and the
manufacturing of which for her own use she may, at any moment she
pleases, restrain. Nothing is left for us to do but to complain and
pay.'" (Ramsay's Colonial History, Vol. I., Chap. iii., pp. 351, 352.)]

[Footnote 296: "Townshend opened the debate with professions of candour,
and the air of a man of business. Exculpating alike Pennsylvania and
Connecticut, he named as the delinquent colonies--Massachusetts, which
had invaded the King's prerogative by a general amnesty, and in a
message to its Governor had used expressions derogatory to the authority
of Parliament; Rhode Island, which had postponed but not refused to
indemnify the sufferers by the Stamp Act; and New Jersey, which had
evaded the Billeting Act, but had yet furnished the King's troops with
every essential thing to their perfect satisfaction. Against these
colonies it was not necessary to institute severe proceedings. But New
York, in the month of June last, besides appointing its own Commissary,
had limited its supplies to two regiments, and to those articles only
which were provided in the rest of the King's dominions, and in December
had refused to do more.

"It became Parliament not to engage in controversy with its colonies,
but to assert its sovereignty without uniting them in a common cause.
For this end he proposed to proceed against New York, and against New
York alone. To levy a local tax would be to accept a penalty in lieu of
obedience. He should, therefore, move that New York, having disobeyed
Parliament, should be restrained from any legislativ