<P> They planted by your care? No! Your oppression planted' em in America . They fled from your tyranny to a then uncultivated and unhospitable country where they exposed themselves to almost all the hardships to which human nature is liable, and among others to the cruelties of a savage foe, the most subtle, and I take upon me to say, the most formidable of any people upon the face of God's earth....</P> <P> They nourished by your indulgence? They grew by your neglect of' em . As soon as you began to care about' em, that care was exercised in sending persons to rule over' em, in one department and another, who were perhaps the deputies of deputies to some member of this house, sent to spy out their liberty, to misrepresent their actions and to prey upon' em; men whose behaviour on many occasions has caused the blood of those sons of liberty to recoil within them.... </P> <P> They protected by your arms? They have nobly taken up arms in your defence, have exerted a valour amidst their constant and laborious industry for the defence of a country whose frontier while drenched in blood, its interior parts have yielded all its little savings to your emolument...The people I believe are as truly loyal as any subjects the king has, but a people jealous of their liberties and who will vindicate them if ever they should be violated; but the subject is too delicate and I will say no more ." </P> <P> The Stamp Act was passed by Parliament on March 22, 1765 with an effective date of November 1, 1765 . It passed 205--49 in the House of Commons and unanimously in the House of Lords . Historians Edmund and Helen Morgan describe the specifics of the tax: </P>

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