The Official and Other Papers (Volume 1)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842. Excerpt: ... "A Shout time after, a reply followed, entitled "A View of the Controversy, by a Westchester Farmer," marked with still greater asperity than the former, and pressing its object with new arguments. The inertness of the colony is shown, to prove the narrow circle of factious principles; the right of legislation in the colonies is denied, on inferences drawn from the tenor of the colonial charters; the effect of an embargo, to sever from them their English friends, is alleged; the dangers of a civil war strongly deprecated, and a remedy proposed of vesting in Parliament, the enactment of general laws, reserving to the legislatures the mere right of taxation. Within a month,")-this paper was followed by a more elaborate answer, of seventy-eight pages, entitled " The Farmer Refuted; or a more Comprehensive and Impartial View of the Disputes between Great Britain and the Colonies; intended as a Further Vindication of the Congress, in answer to a Letter from A W. Farmer, entitled A View of the Controversy between Great Britain and her Colonies, including a Mode of determining the present Disputes finally and effectually, etc. By a Sincere Friend to America. Tituli Remedia pollicentur, sed Pixedes ipsse venena continent. The title promises Remedies, but the Box itself poisons. Printed by James Rivington, 1775."--Life of Hamilton, by his Son: p. 31, vol. 1. January 6, 1775. f February 5, 1775. ADVERTISEMENT. The writer of the ensuing sheets can, with truth, Bay more than the generality of those, who either espouse, or oppose,the claim of the British Parliament; which is, that his political opinions have been the result of mature deliberation and rational inquiry. They have not been influenced by prejudice, nor by any interested or ambitious motives. They are not...