Speech of Edmund Burke, Esq. On American Taxation, April 19, 1774 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Speech of Edmund Burke, Esq. On American Taxation, April 19, 1774And the same being read accordingly, He moved, "That this House will, upon this day "sevennight, resolve itself into a Committee of "the whole House, to take into consideration "the duty of 3d. per pound weight upon tea, "payable in all his Majesty's Dominions in "America, imposed by the said Act, and also "the appropriation of the said duty."On this latter motion a warm and interesting debate arose, in which Mr. Edmund Burke spoke as follows:Sir, I Agree with the Honourable Gentleman who spoke last, that this subject is not new in this House. Very disagreeably to this House, very unfortunately to this Nation, and to the peace and prosperity of this whole Empire, no topic has been more familiar to us. For nine long years, session after session, we have been lamed round and round this miserable circle of occasional arguments and temporary expedients. I am sure our heads mud: turn, and our stomachs nauseate with them. We have had them in every shape, we have looked at them in every point of view.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.