"From infancy I was taught to love humanity and liberty Inquiry and experience have since confirmed my reverence for the lessons
then given me by convincing me more fully of their truth and excellence Benevolence towards mankind excites wishes for their welfare and such wishes endear the means of fulfilling them Those can be found in liberty alone and therefore her sacred cause
ought to be espoused by every man, on every occasion, to the utmost of his power...
These being my sentiments, I am encouraged to offer you, my countrymen, my thoughts on some late transactions that in my opinion are of the utmost importance to you....
"If the BRITISH PARLIAMENT has a legal authority to order that we shall furnish a single article for the troops here, and to compel obedience to that order, they have the same right to order us to
supply those troops with arms, clothes, and to compel obedience to that order also... What is this but taking us at a certain sun and leaving to us only the manner of raising it? How is this mode
more tolerable than the STAMP ACT?"
John Dickinson, Letters from a Parmee in Pennsylvania to the inhabitants of the British Colonies 1763
Which of the following would have been most likely to agree with the sentiments expressed in the excerpt?
The letter above written by the Lawyer, James Dickinson, was a response to the taxation imposed by Charles Townshend on the American colonists. After the Stamp Act of 1965 was repealed in Charles Townshend came back two years later to impose import duties and high taxes on the colonists so as to offset the financial crisis of Britain. This did not go down well with the inhabitants of the American colonies.
Merchants were also worried about this development for it would have an impact on their trade which was mostly about importation and exportation. This protest was to culminate in the revolution by the American colonies.
