who said "To these acts and measures Americans cannot submit."?

Question

It's from the American Revolutionary war.

Answer 1

That comes from the conclusion of the Declaration of Rights and Grievances, a document produced by the First Continental Congress in 1774 in response to what the British called the Coercive Acts - and the colonists called the Intolerable Acts. These Acts were intended to punish the colonies, particularly Massachusetts, for the Boston Tea Party.

The Declaration has no single author, as it was written by a committee.


The full quote goes:

"To these grievous acts and measures Americans cannot submit, but in hopes that their fellow subjects in Great Britain will, on a revision of them, restore us to that state in which both countries found happiness and prosperity, we have for the present only resolved to pursue the following peaceable measures:

1. To enter into a non-importation, non-consumption, and non-exportation agreement or association.

2. To prepare an address to the people of Great Britain, and a memorial to the inhabitants of British America, and

3. To prepare a loyal address to his Majesty, agreeable to resolutions already entered into."