Clarke Peters
speaker
443 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 11 Jun
Clarke Peters’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's the closest Americans will ever get to their demand of representation in this body that seeks to tax them.
Before a committee of MPs, Franklin puts on a show.
Over four hours, he fields 174 questions.
Each answer presses the colony's case with wit, knowledge, and sound logic.
He's asked whether soldiers should be sent to quell the growing rebellion.
The military patrolling American streets?
Franklin rolls his eyes at that one.
They will not find a rebellion, he says, but they may indeed make one.
A few weeks after Franklin's testimony, the Stamp Act is repealed.
The colonies rejoice.
In New York, the local government commissions the Grand Equestrian Statue of George III, an expression of loyalty to His Majesty.
But a second statue is also commissioned.
This one is of William Pitt, the parliamentarian who led British criticism of the new taxes.
It will stand on Wall Street, less than half a mile from the statue of George.
It's a telling expression of American sentiments.
God save the king and don't tread on me in two chunks of gilded lead.
But the British haven't learned their lesson.
Just a year later, a wave of new taxes are introduced by Charles Townsend, Chancellor of the Exchequer in a new government.
What began as an effort to balance the books is now a point of principle.
Boston rises again.
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