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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 26: (search)
om the people's fear of their being used to compel submission to Acts of Parliament infringing colonial privileges. The garrison at Boston was in the service of the Colony. The British troops were so widely scattered in little detachments, as to be of no account. England, reasoned the observer, must foresee a Revolution, and has hastened its epoch by emancipating the Colonies from the fear of France in Canada. Report of Pontleroy, the French Emissary, made through Durand to Choiseul, Aug. 1766. Simultaneously with the reception of these accounts, Choiseul was reading in the Gazette of Leyden the Answer lately made by the Assembly of Massachusetts to its Governor, and learned with astonish- Chap. XXVI.} 1766. Aug. ment that colonies which were supposed to have no liberties but by inference, spoke boldly and firmly of rights and a Constitution. Durand to Choiseul, 27 Aug. 1766. In this manner, time was bringing him some assuagement of his former deep humiliation. Could
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 27: (search)
upland frontier, many of whom had sprung from Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, Compare Foote's Sketches of North Carolina, chap. XI. suffered from the illegal exactions of Chap. XXVII.} 1766. Oct. Sheriffs and officials, whose pillaging was supported by the whole force of Government. The Sons of Liberty, said they to one another, withstood the Lords of Parliament in behalf of true Liberty; let not officers under them carry on unjust oppression in our province. No. 1, Advertisement C. Aug. 1766. In Tryon to Secretary of State, 24 Dec. 1768; Martin's North Carolina, II. 217; Jones's Defence of N. C. Some of those who were wronged hardly gained by their utmost efforts a scanty subsistence for their families. Compare Petition prepared by Fanning, and sent the Regulators by Fanning's friend, Ralph McNair. All were loyal; regarding the British form of government as the wholesomest Constitution in being. But they were goaded by the corrupt and arbitrary practices of nefarious and