Monday, October 7, 2024

Corporate Charter Corrupt Sovereignty as Imperialism exposed in 1773 colonial revolutionary pamphlet

 “The East India Company obtained their exclusive privilege of Trade to that Country, by Bribery and Corruption. Wonder not then, that Power thus obtained, at the Expense of the national Commerce, should be used to the most tyrannical and cruel Purposes. It is shocking to Humanity to relate the relentless
Barbarity, practiced by the Servants of that Body, on the helpless Asiatics, a Barbarity fierce equaled even by the most brutal Savages, or Cortez, the Mexican Conqueror.” From THE ALARM, Number II (October 9, 1773)

 https://www.loc.gov/item/rbpe.1050090a/

 Hampden Pseud. Created / Published. New York, 1773. Headings. - United States--New York--New York. Genre. 

 Perhaps the use of the name Hampden was, in opposite to Charles I ship tax of 1642 (preceding the English Civil War), evoking the same name used against Charles Townshend (tax enforcer and Chancellor of the Exchequer.

 Americans could also look to John Hampden, Algernon Sidney, and other opponents of Charles I for political arguments and the justification

 https://allthingsliberty.com/2013/09/tale-two-kings-charles-george-iii/

  In Maryland, Daniel Dulany compared colonial opponents of the Stamp Act to John Hampden, who had challenged Charles I’s ship money in court, lost, and later died fighting against the king. Dulany wrote in Considerations on the Propriety of Imposing Taxes in the British Colonies that like Hampden, Americans were resisting “an arbitrary and oppressive proceeding, destructive of the essential principles of English liberty.”[6]

 

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