Excerpt from Illustrated Album of Biography of Southwestern Minnesota: Containing Biographical Sketches of Hundreds of Prominent Old Settlers and Representatives Citizens, With a Review of Their Life, Work, Their Identity With the Growth and Development of This Region; And Reminiscences of Personal History and Pioneer Life The memorable Stamp Act was now issued, and Adams entered with all the ardor of his soul into political life in order to resist it. He drew up a series of reso lutions remonstrating against the act, which were adopted at a public meeting of the citizens of Braintree, and which were sub sequently adopted, word for word, by more than forty towns in the State. Popular commotion prevented the landing of the Stamp Act papers, and the English author ities then closed the courts. The town of Boston therefore appointed Jeremy Grid ley, James Otis and John Adams to argue a petition before the Governor and council for the re-opening of the courts; and while the two first mentioned attorneys based their argument upon the distress caused to the people by the measure, Adams boldly claimed that the Stamp Act was a violation both of the English Constitution and the charter of the Provinces. It is said that this was the first direct denial of the un limited right of Parliament over the colo nies. Soon after this the Stamp Act was repealed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.