Life in the Eighteenth Century
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His attitude of mind was sim- ply that his will was law by the Grace of God, and that it must be enforced with all the power that Great Britain could bring to bear.
In their resistance to the Trade Laws the colonists were still carrying on trade without paying the duties which the English Parliament had decreed that they should pay. In other words, Yankee ships were smuggling goods into the colonies as freely as they could under the circumstances, and with so little of disguise as not to arouse... the smallest moral senti- ment against the practice. The people held that the Navigation and Trade Laws were unjust and that they proceeded from an authority which had no right whatever to enact them. They therefore gave all the moral sanction that public opinion could give to the evasion of those laws by shipmasters and even to their open violation and defiance.
On the other hand, George III was determined to enforce such laws whether the people of the colo- nies liked them or not. A British warship, called the Gaspee, was sent out to Narragansett Bay, which at that time was the favorite route for the smuggling 168 LIFE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY vessels.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
His attitude of mind was sim- ply that his will was law by the Grace of God, and that it must be enforced with all the power that Great Britain could bring to bear.
In their resistance to the Trade Laws the colonists were still carrying on trade without paying the duties which the English Parliament had decreed that they should pay. In other words, Yankee ships were smuggling goods into the colonies as freely as they could under the circumstances, and with so little of disguise as not to arouse... the smallest moral senti- ment against the practice. The people held that the Navigation and Trade Laws were unjust and that they proceeded from an authority which had no right whatever to enact them. They therefore gave all the moral sanction that public opinion could give to the evasion of those laws by shipmasters and even to their open violation and defiance.
On the other hand, George III was determined to enforce such laws whether the people of the colo- nies liked them or not. A British warship, called the Gaspee, was sent out to Narragansett Bay, which at that time was the favorite route for the smuggling 168 LIFE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY vessels.
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