ENTRY+2--+1764+Who+rules?

Dearest Diary,

I myself, take care of a few cattle, seven sheeps and a herd of horses that consist of more than a dozen. In the case of the bluntest example, I was to leave my birth town and home which is Norristown for a land across the Great Atlantic. I happen to leave my farm creatures unheeded on the fields of my property and my sons are surely not given permission to care for them in any shape or form.

On the other side of the Atlantic, how is it that I can tend to my few cattle, seven sheeps and my dear herd of horses?

I can most certainly proclaim that I cannot.

Hence, why is it that the Parliament wishes to enforce so much of its power on men, women and children, all of whom are so far away from the likes of London and Westminister Palace? **It would be impossible for the parliament to judge so well of their abilities to bear taxes, impositions on trade, and other duties and burthens, or of the local laws that might be really needful, as a legislative here.**


 * As each and every British subject enjoy the right of representation at the House of Commons, am I wrong to desire for the same, equitable right and see colonists represented in parliament?** After all, the children of God presiding on the American continent are subject to thievery from the Parliament, it is our money being looted from the bottom of our pockets with these unreasonable taxes; it is our rights being denied in front of the Lord at the Palace of Westminister.

Dearest diary, I can hardly hide my gradual but heartfelt anger.

I will not expect the milk or flesh of my cattle to fall from the sky on the other side of the Atlantic.

Why does the British feel this impossibility is only right?