tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post726344736895112381..comments2024-03-28T04:26:30.557-05:00Comments on Boston 1775: The Press Response to the Writs of Assistance ArgumentUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-21873155382161829152011-03-01T09:48:44.314-05:002011-03-01T09:48:44.314-05:00Speaking of the study of Law in the Colonies and p...Speaking of the study of Law in the Colonies and perhaps Boston in particular...<br /><br /><i>"This study readers men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defence, full of resources. In other countries, the people, more simple, and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance; here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze."</i><br /><br />Edmund Burke,<br />ON MOVING HIS RESOLUTIONS FOR CONCILIATION WITH THE COLONIES. HOUSE OF COMMONS, MARCH 22, 1775<br /><br />http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/5655/pg5655.htmlChris Hurley of Woburnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11767360457057298740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-70375167724829171862011-02-27T18:27:20.161-05:002011-02-27T18:27:20.161-05:00Thanks!
I have a NEHGS membership so I'll look...Thanks!<br />I have a NEHGS membership so I'll look there!Bill Westhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01266937924453737084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-74204845466524459202011-02-27T16:07:05.001-05:002011-02-27T16:07:05.001-05:00I access the Archive of Americana database through...I access the Archive of Americana database through the <a href="http://www.bpl.org" rel="nofollow">Boston Public Library</a>, using a card available to me as a citizen of Massachusetts. (I had to go to B.P.L. to apply for that card, but now can access the databases from home, one city out.)<br /><br />Some university libraries offer similar access. The <a href="http://www.americanancestors.org" rel="nofollow">New England Historic Genealogical Society</a> offers its members access to the Early American Newspapers database, part of the Archive of Americana. <br /><br />The offerings for free are much spottier. Colonial Williamsburg has an <a href="http://research.history.org/DigitalLibrary/BrowseVG.cfm" rel="nofollow">index and images of the <i>Virginia Gazette</i>s</a>. Google has some late-eighteenth-century newspapers in the <a href="http://boston1775.blogspot.com/2010/12/poking-through-googles-old-newspapers.html" rel="nofollow">volumes it’s scanned</a>.J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-64506427709306562022011-02-27T11:38:08.570-05:002011-02-27T11:38:08.570-05:00Fascinating series. Is there a link to that databa...Fascinating series. Is there a link to that database with the early American newspapers?Bill Westhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01266937924453737084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-25321969711788396182011-02-25T14:50:34.258-05:002011-02-25T14:50:34.258-05:00I think colonial Americans realized, or built up, ...I think colonial Americans realized, or built up, the significance of the writs of assistance case only after 1761. <br /><br />As for the “taxation without representation” quote, I <a href="http://boston1775.blogspot.com/2009/04/james-otis-jr-on-taxation-without.html" rel="nofollow">don’t think Otis ever said it</a>. A similar phrase was actually John Adams’s paraphrase of Otis’s argument, decades after the “taxation without representation” phrase was popularized by other writers during the Revolution.<br /><br />But the rivalry for credit between fans of Otis and fans of Henry is crucial to how this story has been told, I think.J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-58923244096930674592011-02-25T13:55:52.107-05:002011-02-25T13:55:52.107-05:00That's disappointing and fascinating, all at o...That's disappointing and fascinating, all at once. I'm not sure what to make of it. Did you also know that online sources attribute Otis' famous quote, "Taxation without representation is tyranny," to Patrick Henry?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11367012840719617546noreply@blogger.com