Collected Political Writings of James Otis

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Otis James. Collected Political Writings of James Otis

The Life, Times, and Political Writings of James Otis

1. John Adams’s Notes on the First Argument of the Case, February 1761

2. Josiah Quincy Jr.’s Notes on the Second Argument of the Case, November 1761

3. John Adams’s Reconstruction of Otis’s Speech in the Writs of Assistance Case “MAY IT PLEASE YOUR HONORS,

4. Essay on the Writs of Assistance Case, Boston Gazette, January 4, 1762. To the PRINTERS

5. A Sample Writ of Assistance

1. Essays from the Boston Gazette, December 21, 1761–April 11, 1763

2. A Vindication of the Conduct of the House of Representatives of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay

THE. PREFACE

A. VINDICATION &c

1. The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved

Of Colonies in general

Of the natural Rights of Colonists

Of the Political and Civil Rights of the British Colonists

Appendix

2. A Vindication of the British Colonies

ADVERTISEMENT

A Vindication of the British Colonies, against the Aspersions of the Halifax Gentleman in his Letter to a Rhode-Island Friend

POSTSCRIPT

3. Brief Remarks on the Defence of the Halifax Libel on the British–American–Colonies

Brief REMARKS, &c

4. Otis in the Boston Gazette, May 13, 1765

5. Considerations on Behalf of the Colonists.In a Letter to a Noble Lord

A LETTER, &

6. Otis in the Boston Gazette, August 19 and 26, 1765, Responding to Criticisms of Noble Lord

7. John Hampden to William Pym Essays from the Boston Gazette

8. Freeborn American / Freeborn Armstrong Essays in the Boston Gazette

9. November 1767 Essay by Otis in the Boston Gazette

SOURCES USED AND CITED IN THIS VOLUME

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Collected Political Writings of James Otis

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I ask these plain questions, if gold was no tender in England, what could people pay their debts in but silver? if the law allowed payment in nothing else but silver, how then could they refuse paying them in silver?

Whether the King’s coin of gold be a tender in England, at any fixed rate, has been a dispute here for three months; however this seems to be conceded at present, at least by Mr. Y.Z. so there is one point gained. The reader is desired to note with Mr. Locke once for all, that cavilling here and there at some expression, or little incident of a discourse, is no answer to it. That railing is no argumentation nor worth notice.

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