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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 46 2 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition. 15 1 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 12 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition. 12 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers 4 0 Browse Search
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 25. 1 1 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 10: (search)
itled as colonies, and connected in the common bond of liberty with the free sons of Great Britain. For, with submission, since all impositions, whether they be internal taxes, or duties paid for what we consume, equally diminish the estates upon which they are charged, what avails it to any people by which of them they are impoverished? And they deprecated the loss of their rights as likely to shake the power and independence of Great Britain. The people of Rhode Island, headed by Stephen Hopkins, the governor of their own choice, proceeded more calmly and on a better foundation. They would not recognise any just authority in parliament to en- chap. X.} 1764. Oct. act even the laws of trade. Like Massachusetts, they elected a committee of correspondence. The colony was ready to exert its utmost efforts to preserve its privileges inviolate. It saw that the critical conjunction was come when they must be defended or finally lost; and they invited all other colonies to mainta
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 13: (search)
impotence of despair, are the most dangerous of any next to the military, and he lamented that, as yet, the faction could not be crushed. Golden to Halifax, 22 Feb. and 27 April, 1765. Still New-York continued tranquil. New England, where the chief writer against the impending Stamp Act had admitted the jurisdiction of the British parliament, was slow to anger. The child of Old England, she was 10th to impute to the parent country a fixed design to subvert her rights. The patriot Hopkins of Rhode Island, had written, and that colony had chap. XIII.} 1765. April. authoritatively published their common belief, that the glorious constitution of Great Britain is the best that ever existed among men. Such was the universal opinion. Massachusetts had been led to rely on the inviolability of English freedom, and on the equity of parliament; and, when the blow fell, which, though visibly foreshown, had not been certainly expected, the people looked upon their liberties as gone
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 14: (search)
as the common voice, and as such we are to be ruled by laws of our own making, and tried by men of our own condition. Hopkins, Bland, and others. Providence Gazette. If we are Englishmen, said one, on what footing is our property? The greatarliament. If the people in America are to be taxed by the representatives of the people in England, their malady, said Hopkins, of Rhode Island, is an increasing evil, that must always grow greater by time. When the parliament once begins, such westates; a land tax for all America will be thought chap. XIV.} 1765. June of next. Boston Gazette. N. Y. Gazette. Hopkins's Grievances. Hutchinson's Correspondence. R. R. Livingston's Correspondence. It is plain, said even the calmest, st character for wisdom, justice, and integrity, and incapable of dealing unjustly. Admitting this to be true, retorted Hopkins, one who is bound to obey the will of another is as really a slave, though he may have a good master, as if he had a bad