Why should not they pay some share of the cost of their own security?
Certain facts tended to make Englishmen indignant with the Americans.

Every effort had failed to get them to pay willingly for their defense.

Before the Stamp Act had become law in 1765 the colonies were given a whole year to devise the raising of money in any way which they liked better.

The burden of what was asked would be light.

Why should not they agree to bear it?
Why this talk, repeated by the Whigs in the British Parliament, of brutal tyranny, oppression, hired minions imposing slavery, and so on.