"Sam": or The history of mystery./ By C. W. Webber.

' -SAM: " OR, THE HISTORY OF MYSTERY.
Christopher Gadsden and John Rutledge, of South Carolina,
all subsequently distinguished in the history of the Revolution. A rule was adopted, giving to each colony represented,
one vote.
In the course of a three weeks' session, a Declaration of
the Rights and Grievances of the Colonies was agreed to.
All the privileges of Englishmen were claimed by this declationl, as the birthright of the colonists-among the rest, the
right of being taxed only by their own consent. Since distance and local circumstances made a representation in the
British Parliament impossible, these representatives, it was
maintained, could be no other than the several colonial Legislatures. Thus was given a flat negative to a scheme lately
broached in England by Pownall and others, for allowing to
the colonies a representation in Parliament, a project to which
both Otis and Franklin seem at first to have leaned.
A petition to the king, and memorials to each House of
Parliament, were also prepared, in which the cause of the
colonies was eloquently pleaded. Ruggles refused to sign
these papers, on the ground that they ought first to be
approved by the several Assemblies, and should be forwarded
to England as their acts. Ogden, one of the New Jersey
delegates, withheld his signature on the same plea. The
delegates from New York did not sign because they had no
special authority for their attendance; nor did those of Connecticut or South Carolina, their commission restricting
them to a report to their respective Assemblies. The petition and memorials, signed by the other delegates, were
transmitted to England for presentation.
The several colonial Assemblies, at their earliest sessions,
gave to the proceedings a cordial approval. The conduct of
Ruggles, in refusing his-signature, was severely censured by
the Massachusetts representatives. Ogden was burned in
effigy by the people of New Jersey.
The first day of November, appointed for the Stamp act to
go into operation, came and went, but not a stamp was anywhere to be seen. Two companies of rioters paraded that
evening the streets of New York, demanding the delivery of
the stamps, which Colden, on the resignation of the stamp
distributor, and his refusal to receive them, had taken into
the fort. Colden was hung in effigy. His carriage was
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