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        PONTIACÕS WAR AND THE KINGÕS NEW RULES

 

And after France was sent packing, the colonies stirred

Over new laws enacted by King George the Third.

As more settlers spread out and into those stations

Once owned by the French and the Indian nations.

 

By acre and by mile, they would creep into lands

That were hunted and farmed by Indian hands.

And so an Ottawa Chief, the revered Pontiac,

Summoned all tribes, and then lead their attack!

 

And the fighting was frantic, the fray was fierce,

As this storm was abrew for many long years.

And though England won what was PontiacÕs War,

Of bloodshed and battle, no soul could want more.

 

So the Crown thought it best, to avoid such unrest,

By forbidding all settlers from points further west.

ÒStay east of the mountainsÓ was the KingÕs firm decree

In the Proclamation of 1763.

 

Ah, but feelings toward Britain began to turn sour

As the mother country now seemed a smothering power.

And when by The Stamp Act, England levied a tax

On all printed papers. . . Why, she did not even ask!

 

A tax next on sugar, on the molasses they drank!

It didnÕt sit well or, to be frank, it stank.

Of course, Brits thought the tax fair to pay the warÕs cost,

-- But theyÕd deeply regret all the love that was lost.

 

For though subject to rule, not one colonist was sent

To vote ÒyeaÓ or vote ÒnayÓ in the halls Parliament.

Indeed, in Old England, they passed laws as they pleased

With but little regard for those overseas.

 

So, Patrick Henry and others exhorted their fellows

To protest these taxes with shouts and with bellows.

And great outrage soon grew from a minor vexation,

As cries rang out: ÒNo taxes without representation