He claimed they invaded US
Most Southerners believed they were naturally better than African Americans and therefore had the right to "own" them, while many Northerners thought it was morally wrong, but some Northerners didn't want the competition of enslaved labor.
The British government argued instead that the colonists enjoyed virtual representation in that they were represented in Parliament in the same way as the thousands of other British subjects that did not have the vote and towns such as Manchester which were not represented in Parliament
States with larger population
