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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition. 1 1 Browse Search
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nment from countenancing the opulent James Delancey, then the Chief Justice of the Province and the selfish and artful leader of the opposition! The inhabitants of the plantations, they reiterated to one another and to the ministry, are generally educated in republican principles; upon republican principles all is conducted. Little more than a shadow of royal authority remains in the Northern Colonies. Ms. Memorial prepared as a reply to the Representation of the New York Assembly of 19 May, 1747. Journals of N. Y. Assembly, II. 149-155. Very recently the importunities of Clinton had offered the Duke of Newcastle the dilemma of supporting the governor's authority, or relinquishing power to a popular faction. It will be impossible, said one of his letters, which was then under consider- chap II.} 1748. July. ation Board of Trade to Clinton, 29 June, 1748. in England before the king, to secure this valuable province from the enemy, or from a faction within it, without the ass