Download or read book Journal of the First Congress of the American Colonies, in Opposition to the Tyrannical Acts of the British Parliament, 1845 (Classic Reprint) written by Stamp Act Congress and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Journal of the First Congress of the American Colonies, in Opposition to the Tyrannical Acts of the British Parliament, 1845 The more this subject is investigated, the more obvious will become the fact, that the American Revolution was essentially a wider diffused, a more general impulse, enlisting not only a greater number of distinct communities, independent of each other, than had hardly ever been so associated before, but that the proportion of individual, personal participa tion, a participation in which individualjadgment was called into requisi tion, and individual responsibility incurred, had seldom been equalled. It was no momentary impulse - no burst of passion. A cool, deliberate pro cess, year after year in progress, interrupted at every stage by respectful, unanswerable, and therefore unanswered, remonstrances. When every expedient, Short of resistance, had been tried, over and over, resistance itself was tried, without an attempt to assert independence. When the last drop was drained from the cup of suffering, short of humiliation, the whole American people were ready, (tories excepted, ) with Declarations of Independence, ' rather than take one drop from the cup of submission. Americans had not to learn to be freemen. Not only have the different Colonies each its claim to distinction, in as serting the rights of freemen on that occasion, in language and in mode, which commands the admiration of all impartial historians, but every County, Town and Hundred of every colony had champions pressing to the front rank in a cause which all regarded as involving their Own and their country's freedom. A purer or fuller current ofwell-asserted rights OF man never flowed from press and forum than that struggle Witnessed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.