Nouvelle histoire scolaire des États-Unis . r. Samuel Adams, de Boston,^ a déclaré : Nous revendiquons British * Samuel Adams (1722-1803) était l'un des premiers et des plus actifs adversaires de la domination britannique en Amérique. En 1769, il a prononcé un discours public avec la déclaration :indépendant nous sommes ; et indépendant nous le serons. La LOI SUR LE TIMBRE, 95 droits, non pas par charte seulement ; nous sommes nés à eux. Il a aussi serré le droit exclusif des colonies de s'imposer et de se gouverner. La doctrine se répand, que Les Taxons-tion sans représentation sont la tyrannie/ et que Resistanceto tyrans est l'obéissance à Dieu. 1765. LE S

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New school history of the United States . r. Samuel Adams, of Boston, ^ said : We claim British * Samuel Adams (1722-1803) was one of the earliest and most active opponents ofBritish rule in America. In 1769, he closed a public speech with the declaration :Independent we are ; and independent we will be. THE STAMP ACT, 95 rights, not by charter only ; we are born to them. He as-serted the exclusive right of the colonies to tax themselves, and to govern themselves. The doctrine spread, that Taxa-tion without representation is tyranny/ and that Resistanceto tyrants is obedience to God. 1765. THE STAMP ACT. 7. The Stamp Act ^ was passed in Englandsuch was the feeling inAmerica. This Act re-quired the use of stamps, of various cost, on all law pa-pers, almanacs, pamph-lets, and newspapers.The measure was bitter-ly resented and resistedby the Americans. Itwas not the form of thetax, but the fact of tax-ation, to which they ob-jected.! Patrick Henryoffered resolutions inthe Virginia Legisla-ture, affirmins; that the SAMUEL ADAMS. while. * A Stamp Tax had been suggested in 1734, by Governor Colby, of New York; andagain in 1744, by Governor Clarke. When it was proposed, in 1739, to Sir Robert Walpole, then Prime Minister ofEngland, he rejected the suggestion, saying: I will leave that for some of mysuccessors, who may have more courage than T have, and be less a friend to com-merce than I am. * George Grenville v/as that rash successor. t In the debates in the British Parliament on this bill, Charles Townshend re-marked, that the Americans were children planted by our care, and nourished byour indulgence. To this Colonel Barr^ made the indignant reply : They plantedby your care ! Xo—your oppression planted them in America !—they fxcd from yourtj-ranny to a then uncultivated and inhospitable wilderness, exposed to all the hard-ships to which human nature is liable. They nourished by your indulgence ! Xo—they grew by your neglect; your care of them was displayed, as soon as

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