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of their fellow-subjects with the consent of the common Executive. If then they have a charter, or a right without a charter, to be governed in this manner, where is there room for the parliament of another part of the empire, in which their property does not lie, where they themselves do not reside, wherein they are neither actually nor virtually represented, to legislate absolutely for them ? If the case of the United States is to be holden to be good law, it is a conclusive authority that such interference would be unconstitutional. You have no right to tax the people of Massachusetts, said Lord Chatham to the British Parliament. Good. The people of Massachusetts were taxed to the amount of a penny or two per cent, on their incomes for stamped paper. They refused to pay this tax and were accounted in the House of Lords good Winers for so doing. You have a right to take one or two or three or six clays' labor of their slaves from the people of Jamaica, Barbados, or Antigua, say a large party in this country; that is, the British Parliament has a right to tax the West Indians to the amount of 10 or 20 or 30 or cent, per cent, on their property, without their consent. If they grumbie at this, they are not Whigs or Tories or even Radicals, but the language of England is exhausted in inflicting terms of abuse. Between the refusal of the New Englanders to pay a tax imposed by the British Parliament