Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
In the issue of the PENNSYLVANIA CHRONICLE AND UNIVERSAL ADVERTISER of November 30th-December 3d, 1767, appeared the first of twelve successive weekly "_Letters from a_ FARMER _in_ Pennsylvania _to the Inhabitants of the_ British _Colonies_," in which the attitude assumed by t...
In the issue of the PENNSYLVANIA CHRONICLE AND UNIVERSAL ADVERTISER of November 30th-December 3d, 1767, appeared the first of twelve successive weekly "_Letters from a_ FARMER _...
13. LETTER XII.Some states have lost their liberty by particular accidents; but this calamity is generally owing to the decay of virtue. A people is travelling fast to destruction, when indivi...
11. LETTER X.The consequences, mentioned in the last letter, will not be the utmost limits of our misery and infamy. We feel too sensibly that any[39] ministerial measures, relating to these...
12. LETTER XI.I have several times, in the course of these letters, mentioned the late act of parliament, as being the foundation of future measures injurious to these colonies; and the belie...
3. LETTER II.There is another late act of parliament, which seems to me to be as destructive to the liberty of these colonies, as that inserted in my last letter; that is, the act for granti...
6. LETTER V.Perhaps the objection to the late act, imposing duties upon paper, &c. might have been safely rested on the arguments drawn from the universal conduct of parliaments and ministe...
8. LETTER VII.This letter is intended more particularly for such of you, whose employment in life may have prevented your attending to the consideration of some points that are of great and p...
10. LETTER IX.I have made some observations on the purposes for which money is to be levied upon us by the late act of parliament. I shall now offer to your consideration some further reflect...
5. LETTER IV.An objection, I hear, has been made against what I offer in my second letter, which I would willingly clear up before I proceed. "There is," say these objectors "a material diff...
4. LETTER III.I rejoice to find, that my two former letters to you, have been generally received with so much favour by such of you whose sentiments I have had an opportunity of knowing. Coul...
7. LETTER VI.It may perhaps be objected against the arguments that have been offered to the public concerning the legal power of the parliament, that it has always exercised the power of imp...
9. LETTER VIII.In my opinion, a dangerous example is set in the last act relating to these colonies. The power of parliament to levy money upon us for raising a revenue, is therein avowed and...
2. LETTER I.I am a farmer, settled after a variety of fortunes, near the banks, of the river _Delaware_, in the province of _Pennsylvania_. I received a liberal education, and have been eng...