American leaders and heroes; a preliminary text-book in United States history

American leaders and heroes; a preliminary text-book in United States history

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: … or three years before. Of course these merchants suffered heavy losses, and again begged for a repeal. But the dull-witted King could not understand the Americans. Thus far he had not been able to coerce them; he now made a shrewd attempt to outwit them. Influenced by him, Parliament took off all the new taxes except the one on tea. “There must be one tax to keep the right to tax,” he said. If he could only succeed in getting the Americans to submit to paying any tax–no matter how small–that Parliament might levy, he would carry his point. He therefore urged not only the removal of all taxes except the one on tea, but also made arrangements whereby Americans could buy their taxed tea cheaper than it could be bought in England and cheaper even than they could smuggle it