The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin by H.W. Brands

Author:H.W. Brands
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Autobiography, History
ISBN: 9780307754943
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2000-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

The riots gave bite to demands by the opponents of the Stamp Act for a coordinated rejection of the stamps. As few souls dared incur the wrath of the mobs, and as the stamps were necessary for the conduct of most legal and commercial transactions, daily life was thrown into confusion. Joseph Galloway, writing from Philadelphia in late November, three weeks after the date on which the Stamp Act had been scheduled to take effect, informed Franklin of the situation:

It is difficult to describe the distress to which these distracted and violent measures have subjected the people of this province and indeed all North America. Here are Stamp papers, but the mob will not suffer them to be used, and the public officers of justice and of trade, being under obligation of their oaths and liable to the penalties of the statute, will not proceed in their duties without them.

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