INTERESTING "LUTTRELL" QUOTATION
In 1775, the British House of Commons was considering motions to suspend three coercive statutes directed against Boston and Massachusetts Bay. "On March 30, on its second reading in the House of Commons a debate followed in which Temple Luttrell, a speaker for the opposition, declared: 'To force a tax upon your colonists, unrepresented, and universally dissentient, is acting in no better capacity than that of a banditti of robbers'." From an unknown book, chapter titled "Repudiation of Chatham's Plan". Footnotes reference Journals of the House of Commons, XXXV, 221, 232, 240, 241, 251, 259 and the Parliamentary Register, I, 415-22. |