was at once awake again, and henceforth in the denial of the right of Parliament to tax, we hear no more of acquiescence in commercial restrictions and in the general legislative authority of Parliament. … The plan for resistance adopted by the cooler heads was that of Samuel Adams, namely, the non-importation and the non-consumption of British products. From Boston out, through an impulse proceeding from him, town-meetings were everywhere held to encourage the manufactures of the Province and reduce the use of superfluities, long lists of which were enumerated. Committees were appointed everywhere to procure subscriptions to agreements looking to the furtherance of home industries and the disuse of foreign products. … Before the full effects of the new legislation could be seen, Townshend suddenly died; but in the new ministry that was presently formed Lord North came to the front, and adopted the policy of his predecessor, receiving in this course the firm support of the king, whose activity and interest were so great in public affairs that he 'became his own minister.'" _J. K. Hosmer, Samuel Adams, chapter 7._ ALSO IN: _R. Frothingham, Life and Times of Joseph Warren, chapter 3._ _W. Belsham, Memoirs of the Reign of George III., volume 1, page 139-142._ UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1767-1768. The Farmer's Letters of John Dickinson. The Circular Letter of Massachusetts, and the "Unrescinding Ninety-two."