Letters to Washington and Accompanying Papers: 1758-1770Stanislaus Murray Hamilton Houghton, Mifflin, 1901 - United States |
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Page 346 - Britain and elsewhere ; affected with the deepest anxiety and most alarming apprehensions at those grievances and distresses with which his Majesty's American subjects are oppressed ; and having taken under our most serious deliberation the state of the whole continent, find that the present unhappy situation of our affairs is occasioned by a ruinous system of Colony Administration adopted by the British Ministry about the year 1763, evidently calculated for...