Thomas Hutchinson
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us.
HUTCHINSON. "When troops were employed in America in the last reign to protect the Colonies against the French invasion [French and Indian War], it was necessary to provide against mutiny and desertion and to secure proper quarters [housing]. Temporary Acts of Parliament were passed for that purpose and submitted to in the Colonies. Upon the peace, raised ideas took place in the Colonies of their own importance and caused a reluctance against Parliamentary authority and an opposition to the Acts for quartering troops, not because the provision made was in itself unjust or unequal, but because they were Acts of a Parliament whose authority was denied. The provision was as similar to that in England as the state of the Colonies would admit." |
Thomas Hutchinson was a Boston-born loyalist who was against the Declaration of Independence, so he wrote a 32 page rebuttal, dismissing it as a list of "list of imaginary grievances."
This is one example (left) I took of the many complaints that Hutchinson had about the Declaration. This proves that not everybody was content with the Declaration of Independence.
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Hutchinson's Arguments
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