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Extracts from the speeches of Lords Chatham and Camden on the passing and repeal of the Stamp Act. i. 302. Summary of events from its repeal, March, 1766, to the end of the year. i. 323-336. Statements of the historians Hutchinson and Neal on the persecutions by the Massachusetts Bay Puritans. i. 185. Story (Judge) on the happy influence of the second Charter, and improved legislation and progress of the Colony under it. i. 235. Tea Duty Act virtually defeated in America. i. 370. Opposition to it represented in England as "rebellion," and the advocates of Colonial rights as "rebels" and "traitors." i. 388. Tea--Duty of threepence per pound, to be paid in America into the British Treasury, continued. i. 363. Three Acts of Parliament passed to remove all grounds of complaint on the part of the Colonists. ii. 6. Ticonderago taken by the English. i. 263. Treaty of Peace between Great Britain and the United States; rights and interests of the Loyalists sacrificed by it; omissions in it; protests against it in Parliament. ii. 164, 165. Vane (Sir Henry) remonstrates against the persecutions by the Massachusetts Bay Rulers. i. 116. Vice-Admiralty Courts and the Navy employed as custom-house offices in the Colonies. i. 331. Virginia House of Burgess's admirable answer to the Massachusetts Circular, 1668, and similar replies from other Colonies. i. 342, 343. Rejects Lord North's so-called "conciliatory proposition" to the Colonies. i. 464. Its traditional loyalty of Virginians, and their aversion to revolutions; but resolved to defend their rights. i. 464. Remonstrate with Lord Dunmore for leaving the seat of his government and going on board of a vessel; assure him and his family of perfect safety by remaining at Williamsburg. i. 467. Are horror-struck at Lord Dunmore's threat and proclamation to free the slaves. i. 465. Moved by his fears, goes on board of ship, twelve miles from the seat of government. i. 466. Attempts to destroy the town of Hampton; reduces to ashes the town of Norfolk, then the first commercial city in Virginia. i. 467, 471. His conduct unlawful and inhuman; English accounts of his conduct. i. 470, 472. War formally declared between England and France in 1756. i. 252. War party and corrupt Administration defeated in the House of Commons, 1782. ii. 49. War by the United States agains
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