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Craig Roberts

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Description

Excerpt from the story of John Dickinson, a little known but highly influential \"founding father\" of the American Revolution as written by the narrator.

Vocal Characteristics

Language

English

Voice Age

Middle Aged (35-54)

Accents

North American (General)

Transcript

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John Dickinson was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, not a fire in his belly. He was, in fact, a cool character, calm, considered conservative, raised in a Quaker family and certainly not the sort of man expected to become a revolutionary firebrand. Yet for all his intentions, otherwise, that is exactly what John Dickinson became. Dickinson was one of those peripheral characters in the American Revolution whose influence far outweighs our memory of the man himself. Lawyer and politician John Dickinson was one of the wealthiest of the British American colonists. Not surprisingly, for a man of his means, he was rather reluctant to hand over his money needlessly, even to the mother country England, to whom he was steadfastly loyal. In the summer of 17 67 they usually reserved, John Dickinson got riled up. What irked him was the British Parliament's imposition of the so called Townsend acts. The MPs have the not altogether unreasonable idea. They had, among other things, they're American Colonists might be responsible through taxes for paying the salaries and expenses of the British Army soldiers who were protecting them. Dickinson disagreed. He may have had no quarrel with the concept of paying the soldiers with columnist money. But he was greatly opposed to the levying of taxes by the colony's absentee landlord. If that landlord was Parliament that, in his opinion gaggle of ephemeral, self serving politicians across the sea. These interlopers weren't native born Americans like he was, he argued in his mind the Colonies, which had a 200 year old history by this time and had been home to his own family for over a century, where sovereign members of the ruling party in London had no more right to impose their will upon American colonists, then did Louis the 15th or Catherine the Great.