“_Resolved, N. C. D._, That this House think it their duty thus firmly to assert with modesty and decency their _inherent rights_, that their posterity may learn and know that it was not with their consent and acquiescence that _any taxes_ should be levied on them by any persons but their own representatives.”[111] The controversy proceeded. At the invitation of Massachusetts, moved by Otis, a Congress assembled at New York in October, 1765, having delegates from Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and South Carolina, which, after a prolonged session, adopted a declaration of colonial rights and grievances, where it is declared:-- “That it is inseparably essential to the freedom of a people, and the undoubted right of Englishmen, that no taxes be imposed on them _but with their own consent, given personally or by their representatives_. “That the people of these Colonies are not, and from their local circumstances cannot be, represented in the House of Commons in Great Britain.”[112] At last the Stamp Act was repealed. But the pretension of taxation was suspended rather than abandoned. A ministerial partisan continued to urge the scheme in unscrupulous language:-- “All countries unaccustomed to taxes are at first violently prepossessed against them, though the price which they give for their liberty: like an ox untamed to the yoke, they show at first a very stubborn neck, but by degrees become docile and yield a willing obedience.… America must be taxed.”[113] As time advanced, the old audacity was revived, and, under the lead of the reckless Charles Townshend, taxes were imposed by Parliament on tea, glass, lead, paper, and painters’ colors. The old opposition in the Colonies was revived also, and taxation without representation was again denounced. Committees of correspondence were established, and the work of organization began. The whole country was in a fever. Massachusetts, as in times past, did not hesitate to proclaim the true principle. At a town-meeting of Boston in 1772, there was a declaration of rights, “which no man or body of men, consistently with their own rights as men and citizens or members of society, can for themselves give up or take away from others”; and here we meet again familiar words:-- “The supreme power cannot justly take from any man any part of his property without his consent in person or by his representatives.”[114]