[14] “The act seemed sure to enforce itself. Unless stamps were used, marriages would be null, notes of hand valueless, ships at sea prizes to the first captors, suits at law impossible, transfers of real estate invalid, inheritances unclaimable.”—Idem., vol. v., ch. 11, pp. 251-2.
[15] “The publishers of newspapers ... were ... called upon to stand the brunt in braving the penalties of the act.... Timothy Green ... publisher of the New London Gazette ... fearlessly defended his country’s rights.... On Friday the first day of November, his journal came forth without stamps.”—Idem., vol. v., ch. 19, pp. 352-3.
[16] Speaking of Samuel Adams in 1764, “On his motion and in his words, Boston ... asserted ... ‘If taxes are laid upon us ... without our having a legal representation ... are we not reduced ... to the miserable state of tributary slaves?’”—Idem., vol. v., ch. 10, p. 197.
[17] “The strength of the people in America” in 1748 “consisted also in the exclusive right of its assemblies to levy and to appropriate colonial taxes ... in America, the rapacity of the governors made it expedient to preserve their dependence for their salaries on annual grants.”—Idem., vol. iv., ch. 1, p. 19.
[18] See note 27.
[19] March, 1763, “it became lawful ... for each ... armed vessel to stop and examine and, in case of suspicion, to seize each merchant ship approaching the colonies, while avarice was stimulated by hope of large emoluments to make as many seizures ... as possible.”—Idem., vol. v., ch. 5, p. 92.
[20] “The penalties and forfeitures for breach of the revenue laws were to be decided in courts of Vice-Admiralty, without the interposition of a jury, by a single judge, who had no support whatever but in his share of the profits of his own condemnations.”—Idem., vol. v., ch. 12, p. 268.
[21] “The first American ship that ventured to sea with a rich cargo and without stamped papers was owned by the Boston merchant, John Hancock.”—Idem., vol. v., ch. 20, p. 374.
[22] “The merchants of New York, ... unanimously bound themselves to send no new orders for goods or merchandise; to countermand all former orders; and not even to receive goods on commission unless the Stamp Act be repealed.”—Idem., vol. v., ch. 19, pp. 351-2.
[23] “Isaac Sears, the self-constituted, and for ten years the recognized, head of the people of New York.”—Idem., vol. v., ch. 19, p. 355.