Volume 1 — CHAPTER XIX.
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CHAPTER XIX.
1774, Continued until the Meeting of the First General Congress in September. 403-408
Resolutions in all the Colonies in favour of a general Convention or Congress, and election of delegates to it 403
General sympathy and liberality on behalf of the town of Boston 404
How information on subjects of agitation was rapidly diffused throughout the Colonies 405
The Act of Parliament changing the Constitution of Massachusetts without its consent gave rise to the American Revolution; the authority of that Act never acknowledged in Massachusetts 407