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THE STAMP TAX UNCONSTITUTIONAL. 541
in every respect, they have unanimously resolved that the thanks of this House should be
given you, and it is with great pleasure I now do it, as I am sensible that the conduct that
has given such satisfaction to the members of this House will permit the approbation of
all the well-wishers to this country, when the whole affair shall, at a proper season, be
communicated to them."
The columns of the Maryland Gazette being still crowded with publications attesting the rights of the colonies and the necessity of their maintenance,
to show its detestation of the Stamp Act, on the 10th of October the paper was
put into mourning, and headed with a funeral manifesto.
Shortly after this, on the 31st of October, Mr. Green issued his " third
and last supplement to the Maryland Gazette, of the tenth instant," and
announced " that as by means of a late . . . Act of Parliament, a stoppage is put to the publication of all gazettes, papers of public intelligence,
and advertisers, after this date, except on such intolerable and burthensome
terms as cannot at present be complied with here, of course this must now
cease and determine. . . . This paper has never had occasion to appear
in deep mourning, since the death of our late good king until now." The
"supplement" was now in deep mourning, with a skull and cross-bones
(representing the stamp) on the right hand corner of the front page, with the
following impressive words in deep black type: " The Times are dreadful,
DISMAL, DOLEFUL, DOLOROUS and DOLLAR-LESS."
On the 10th of December, 1765, the editor announces in "an apparition
of the late Maryland Gazette, which is not dead but only sleepeth," that "Captain Brown, in one of his Majesty's sloops of war, is arrived here with fetters
forged in England for the good people of this province; but they are not
landed." He also says "we have received information from Frederick county,
that at the last court there, the magistrates taking into consideration the bad
consequences that would attend a stop being put to the ordinary course of
justice, if any notice was taken of the Stamp Act (which had never been
legally transmitted to them), they in a very full court, unanimously resolved
and ordered, that all the business and process of that court should be transacted in the usual manner without stamps, and that such proceedings should
be good and valid. The clerk of the court, apprehending damage to himself
if he made any entry, or issued any process without stamped paper, refused
to comply with the order of the court; upon which the court ordered him to
be committed to prison for contempt. He then submitted and was discharged,
and proceeded on business as formerly."x
1 On the 5th of September, the following card (to prevent them trouble), that I will pay no
appeared in the Gazette: tax whatever but what is laid upon me by my
"To Messrs. Green and Rind: representatives. I am, gentlemen,
'' Gentlemen-I am informed that the Stamp '' Your hu™^le servant<
law takes place the first day of November next. " Benjamin Welsh."
I, therefore, hereby give notice to all officers Ships were cleared from the several ports of
whatever that may be appointed by virtue of the province without stamps.
that most grievous and unconstitutional Act
| Title | History of Maryland - 1 |
| Creator | Scharf, J. Thomas (John Thomas) |
| Publisher | J. B. Piet |
| Place of Publication | Baltimore |
| Date | 1879 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000577 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | THE STAMP TAX UNCONSTITUTIONAL. 541 in every respect, they have unanimously resolved that the thanks of this House should be given you, and it is with great pleasure I now do it, as I am sensible that the conduct that has given such satisfaction to the members of this House will permit the approbation of all the well-wishers to this country, when the whole affair shall, at a proper season, be communicated to them." The columns of the Maryland Gazette being still crowded with publications attesting the rights of the colonies and the necessity of their maintenance, to show its detestation of the Stamp Act, on the 10th of October the paper was put into mourning, and headed with a funeral manifesto. Shortly after this, on the 31st of October, Mr. Green issued his " third and last supplement to the Maryland Gazette, of the tenth instant," and announced " that as by means of a late . . . Act of Parliament, a stoppage is put to the publication of all gazettes, papers of public intelligence, and advertisers, after this date, except on such intolerable and burthensome terms as cannot at present be complied with here, of course this must now cease and determine. . . . This paper has never had occasion to appear in deep mourning, since the death of our late good king until now." The "supplement" was now in deep mourning, with a skull and cross-bones (representing the stamp) on the right hand corner of the front page, with the following impressive words in deep black type: " The Times are dreadful, DISMAL, DOLEFUL, DOLOROUS and DOLLAR-LESS." On the 10th of December, 1765, the editor announces in "an apparition of the late Maryland Gazette, which is not dead but only sleepeth," that "Captain Brown, in one of his Majesty's sloops of war, is arrived here with fetters forged in England for the good people of this province; but they are not landed." He also says "we have received information from Frederick county, that at the last court there, the magistrates taking into consideration the bad consequences that would attend a stop being put to the ordinary course of justice, if any notice was taken of the Stamp Act (which had never been legally transmitted to them), they in a very full court, unanimously resolved and ordered, that all the business and process of that court should be transacted in the usual manner without stamps, and that such proceedings should be good and valid. The clerk of the court, apprehending damage to himself if he made any entry, or issued any process without stamped paper, refused to comply with the order of the court; upon which the court ordered him to be committed to prison for contempt. He then submitted and was discharged, and proceeded on business as formerly."x 1 On the 5th of September, the following card (to prevent them trouble), that I will pay no appeared in the Gazette: tax whatever but what is laid upon me by my "To Messrs. Green and Rind: representatives. I am, gentlemen, '' Gentlemen-I am informed that the Stamp '' Your hu™^le servant< law takes place the first day of November next. " Benjamin Welsh." I, therefore, hereby give notice to all officers Ships were cleared from the several ports of whatever that may be appointed by virtue of the province without stamps. that most grievous and unconstitutional Act |
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