Raynors HCA 2016-10
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 10/21/2016
Newspaper, The Boston Evening Post, July 1, 1765, folded, and separated horizontally, with several other chips along fold lines, somewhat affecting text. Some browning and foxing. About good. Untrimmed. Plus an envelope with contemporary manuscript description. In part, “ "The general assembly of this colony, together with his Majesty or his substitutes, have, in their representative capacity, the only exclusive right and power to lay taxes and imposts upon the inhabitants of this colony: and that every attempt to vest such power in any other person or persons whatever, than the general assembly aforesaid, is illegal, unconstitutional, and unjust, and have a manifest tendency to destroy British as well as American freedom." Patrick Henry wrote the five resolutions against the Stamp Act and introduced them to the House of Burgesses on May 29, 1765. The House passed them after a heated debate, but rescinded this one, the fifth resolution the following day. Here it si in print.
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