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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Campbell, William, Lord (search)
Campbell, William, Lord Royal governor; younger brother of the fifth Duke of Argyll; became a captain in the British navy in August, 1762; was in Parliament in 1764; governor of Nova Scotia 1766-73; and was appointed governor of South Carolina, where he had acquired large possessions by his marriage to an American lady, in 1774. He arrived at Charleston in July, 1775; was received with courtesy; and soon summoned a meeting of the Assembly. They came, declined to do business, and adjourned on their own authority. The Committee of Safety proceeded in their preparations for resistance without regard to the presence of the governor. Lord Campbell professed great love for the people. His sincerity was suspected, and the hollowness of his professions was soon proved. Early in September Colonel Moultrie, by order of the Committee of Safety, proceeded to take possession of a small post on Sullivan's Island, in Charleston Harbor. The small garrison fled to the British sloops-of-war
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Single tax, (search)
isher's advertisement to the effect that Mr. Spencer had abandoned the views contained in the old edition. Mr. Spencer in abandoning or withdrawing his original views in this connection neglected, however, to disprove them. Other writers and apologists of the existing order sprang up by scores during the controversial period between 1880 and 1894, and many answers to Progress and Poverty were given to the world. The most notable of these answers was the one prepared by the late Duke of Argyll, entitled The Prophet of San Francisco, and republished in full, with Mr. George's reply thereto, in 1893. Patrick Edward Dove was another forerunner of George. In the Theory of human progression he says: If, then, successive generations of men cannot have their practical share of the actual soil (including mines, etc.), how can the division of the advantages of the natural earth be effected? By the division of its annual value or rent; that is, by making the rent of the soil the common