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130 OLD VIRGINIA AND HER NEIGHBOURS.spirit in the <strong>Virginia</strong> burgesses, but the pressurewhich was to drive people into a Federal Unionwas still in the hidden future. The attitude ofthe several colonies so exasi^erated Nicholson as tolead him to recommend that they should all beplaced under a single viceroy <strong>and</strong> taxed for thesupport of a st<strong>and</strong>ing army.When this plan wassubmitted to Queen Anne <strong>and</strong> <strong>her</strong> ministers, itwas rejected as unwise, <strong>and</strong> no British ministryever ventured to try any part of such a policyuntil the reign of George III.Francis Nicholsonshould be remembered as one of the very first toconceive <strong>and</strong> suggest the policy that afterwarddrove the colonies into their Declaration of Independence.

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