[American Revolution] An Article on the Publication of Stephen Hopkins's Influential Pamphlet Against the Stamp Act

The Aberdeen Journal
Aberdeen, (Scotland): Printed and sold by James Chalmers, Monday, December 30, 1765. Numb. 938. Printed newspaper. Folio. (4) pp. Faint British tax stamp in bottom corner of first page. Creased from old fold; Repaired along spine; wear along edges, scattered small open tears along same.

Printed on p. 3 is an article on the publication of Rhode Island Governor Stephen Hopkins's (1707-85) influential pamphlet against the Stamp Act, The Grievances of the American Colonies Candidly Examined (published in America under the title, The Rights of Colonies Examined). Hopkins first delivered this text as a speech before a special session of the Rhode Island Assembly in November 1764, where he emphasized the economic burden on the colonists of Parliament's Revenue Act of 1764, and the passage of the Stamp Act in March of 1765. The Assembly then drafted a petition to the King, detailing their grievances and denying Parliament's right to levy a stamp act on the colony. The legislature than authorized a pamphlet printing of Hopkins's speech, which was published by William Goddard, printer of the Providence Gazette, shortly after, where it was met with wide acclaim and went through to a second edition before the year ended. A London edition was printed in 1766.

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[American Revolution] An Article on the Publication of Stephen Hopkins's Influential Pamphlet Against the Stamp Act

[American Revolution] An Article on the Publication of Stephen Hopkins's Influential Pamphlet Against the Stamp Act