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The Late Regulations Respecting the British Colonies
by
John Dickinson
From “Pamphlets of the American Revolution”, Ed. by Bernard Bailyn
I — THE LATE REGULATIONS
Sir,
When I last wrote to you and said “that the late measures respecting America would not only be extremely injurious to the colonies but also to Great Britain,” I little thought I was entering into an engagement which would oblige me to exceed the usual limits of a letter; but since you desire to have at large the reasons in support of this opinion, and I always think it my duty to comply with your requests, I will endeavor in the clearest manner I can to lay my sentiments before you.
The American continental colonies are inhabited by persons of small fortune, who are so closely employed in subduing a wild country for their subsistence and who
would
labor under such difficulties in contending with old and populous countries which must exceed them in workmanship and cheapness, that they have not time nor any temptation to a . . .
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