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CHAPTER I
PATRICK HENRY

The Last French War
had cost England so much
that at its close
she was heavily in debt.

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“As England
must now send to America
a standing army
of at least ten thousand men
to protect the colonies
against the Indians
and other enemies,”
the King, George III, reasoned,
“it is only fair
that the colonists
should pay a part of the cost
of supporting it.”

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The English Parliament,
being largely made up
of the King’s friends,
was quite ready to carry out
his wishes,
and passed a law
taxing the colonists.

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This law was called the Stamp Act.

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It provided
that stamps
─very much
like our postage-stamps,
but costing all the way
from one cent to fifty dollars each─
should be put
upon all the newspapers
and almanacs used by the colonies,
and upon all such legal papers
as wills, deeds,
and the notes
which men give promising
to pay back borrowed money.

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When news of this act
reached the colonists
they were angry.

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“It is unjust,” they said.

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“Parliament is trying
to make slaves of us
by forcing us
to pay money
without our consent.

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The charters
which the English King
granted to our forefathers
when they came to America
make us free men
just as much
as if we were living in England.

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“In England it is the law
that no free man shall pay taxes
unless they are levied
by his representatives in Parliament.

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