The Pictorial Life of Benjamin Franklin Embracing Anecdotes Illustrative of His
The Pictorial Life of Benjamin Franklin Embracing Anecdotes Illustrative of His
Weld, H. Hastings (Horatio Hastings), 1811-1888
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The Legislative bodies declared against the princi- ples under which the British Government acted ; the people seized something more tangible, and declared against the agents \a ho had accepted ap- pointments under the Act. The distributors of the stamps were threatened, and, where they proved contumacious, were burned in effigy, and in some cases tarred and feathered. They were odious in the sight of the people, for having accepted office BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. 135 under an Act which was justly ob...noxious ; and so resolute was the opposition, that every stamp officer in the country was compelled to resign his commis- sion ; and when the stamped paper arrived, the governors were compelled to keep it on board of armed vessels in the harbours ; and it was all, at length, sent back to England. On the 1st of No- vember, the day on which the Act was to have taken place, neither stamp officer nor stamped paper was to be found in the colonies. The ministry which carried the Stamp Act went out soon after, and the Marquis of Rockingham, who succeeded, deemed it advisable to quell the dis- turbance, or allay it, by a repeal of the obnoxious Act.
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