A History of Printing in Colonial'Maryland

pamphlet (of Seven sheets Quarto, in Small-Pica,) entitled, Considerations on the Propriety of Imposing Taxes
in the British Colonies, for the Purpose of raising a Revenue, by Act of Parliament. Haud Totum Verba resig-
nent Quod latet arcana, non enarrabile, fi bra. Printed by a North-American, 1765. [Price Two Shillings and Six-
pence.]"

On Oct. iyth and 24th he advertised this same pamphlet as "To be Sold, at this Printing Office." Five days
after the advertised date of publication, on Oct. 19, 1765, Gov. Sharpe wrote to Secretary Calvert (Archives of
Mary/and, 14:233):"...I shall not fail writing as often as Opportunities offer, tho I should have nothing worthy
notice to communicate, which would be the Case at present if the Pamphlet & Paper that I inclose for his Ldp's
& your perusal had not lately made their Appearance..... As to the Pamphlet it is said to have been printed in
Maryland, but the Author it seems chooses to remain unknown. It would be unnecessary to tell you that what-
ever Opinion might be Entertained of it in England it meets with general Approbation here & you may from its
Contents form a true Judgment of the Sentiments of the People throughout this & the Neighboring Tobacco
Colony."

Again, on Nov. n, 1765, writing to Baltimore (Ibid. p. 238) Gov. Sharpe said: "That your Ldp. might see
what the Colonies have to offer against the Stamp Act & particularly those who reside in Virginia & Maryland
I lately transmitted in a Letter to Mr. Calvert a Pamphlet which had been published here & is I think by far the
best that has appeared in favour of the Colonists Pretensions."

Secretary Hamersly to Sharpe, Feb. 20,1766, describing the Stamp Act debate in the House of Lords, (Ar-
chives of Maryland, 14: 267) wrote: "he [Lord Camden] Laboured a distinction in the case of Internal Taxation
upon the Doctrine Laid down in that able performance you transmitted wch has since found its way to the Press
with the name of Mr. Dulany Prefixed."

For an exhaustive description and discussion of the Dulany pamphlet in all except its bibliographical aspects,
see Tyler, M. C. The Literary History of the American Revolution, 1763-1783, 2 v. N. Y. 1897,1: 101-113, wherein
the author, in speaking of the effect of the "Considerations" at home and abroad, says: "On the fourteenth of
October, 1765, while the members of the Stamp Act Congress were in the midst of their labors upon the great
problem of the hour, there came from a printing office in Annapolis, a pamphlet... dealing with the same prob-
lem, and doing so with a degree of legal learning, of acumen, and of literary power, which gave to it, both in
America and in England, the highest celebrity among the political writings of this period. It was entitled 'Con-
siderations, etc.' ... on the fourteenth of January, 1766, just three months after the publication of Dulany's
pamphlet, Pitt appeared in the House of Commons ..... and spoke with tremendous power in favor both of an
immediate repeal of the Stamp Act, and of the final abandonment of all measures looking towards the taxation
of the colonies by Parliament. In one of the speeches which he made in the course of that debate, he held up
Dulany's pamphlet to the approval and the admiration of the imperial legislature; and though but a meagre out-
line of his speech is now in existence, even from such outline it is made clear that in all but one of the great fea-
tures of his argument as to the constitutional relations of Great Britain to her colonies, he followed the very line
of reasoning set forth by Daniel Dulany, an old Eton boy like himself." In a note Professor Tyler gives parallel
passages from Pitt's speech and Dulany's pamphlet.

The following passage occurs in a letter from the Earl of Shelburne to Pitt dated Feb. 6, 1767 (see Taylor
and Pringle's Correspondence of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, 4 v. Lond. 1839,3: 192): "But all that I have to
say on this head [i. e. "The New York Petition"] is so much better expressed in a letter from Mr. Delaney, the
author of the American pamphlet to which your Lordship did so much honour last session, than in any words of
my own, that I beg to refer you to that, and enclose it with the other papers, with that view."

MDioc. JCB. _______________

In the Maryland Gazette for Oct. 31, 1765, is printed a letter, the writer of which orders a dozen copies of the
"Considerations." The publisher, Jonas Green, adds this note: "The first impression of, Considerations on the
Propriety of imposing Taxes on the British Colonies, for the Purpose of Raising a Revenue, by Act of Parliament,
being nearly all Sold, a Second is now in the Press, and will be published in a few Days." This announcement
must refer to the following title:

256. [DULANY, DANIEL, JR.] Considerations | on the | Propriety | of imposing | Taxes | in the
| British Colonies,| for the Purpose of raising a Revenue, by | Act of Parliament.|—Haud
Totum Verba resignent | Quod latet arcana, non enarrabile, fibra.| The Second Edition.|
Annapolis: Printed and Sold by Jonas Green. 1765 | [Price Two Shillings and Sixpence.]|

The collation of the Second Edition here entered is the same as that of the anonymously published edition
noted above, with the exception that the title-page has been reset, the ornamental initial of the Preface has been
changed and the head-piece and ornamental initial of page 5 have been changed. The similarity of these two

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