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Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
Chapter 34: Does Massachusetts rescind?—Hillsborough's Colonial Administration continued. s arrived Hillsborough's letter, directing Massachusetts to rescind its resolutions. Compare Fra of Connecticut, Connecticut Speaker to Massachusetts, 11 June, 1768; Prior Documents, 216. and New Jersey. New Jersey Speaker to Massachusetts, 9 May, 1768. Governor W. Franklin to Hillsborouior Documents, 213. Bradford's History of Massachusetts, i. 145. The passage quoted is in Bradforng a word, reported a letter Bradford's Massachusetts State Papers, 151; House to Lord Hillsborod ordered them to show for the Circular of Massachusetts. We shall not be intimidated by a few sounGov. Sharpe. and they sent their thanks to Massachusetts, their sister Colony, in whose opinion thered they exactly coincided. Maryland to Massachusetts, 23 June, 1768; received early in July, Pr Governor was now promising the Council of Massachusetts, that if they would omit to discuss the qu[1 more...]
Portsmouth, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
George the Third, that matters would issue the way you now expect, wrote Hollis T. Hollis to A. Eliot, 1 July, 1768. to a New England man, who predicted independence; you are an ungracious people. There is original sin in you. You are assertors of Liberty, and the principles of the Revolution. The whole body of the people of New Hampshire were resolved to stand or fall with the Massachusetts. It is best, counselled the good Langdon Samuel Langdon to Ezra Stiles, 6 July, 1768. of Portsmouth, for the Americans to let the King know the utmost of their resolutions, and the danger of a violent rending of the Colonies from the mother country. No Assembly on the Continent, said Roger Sherman Quoted in W. S. Johnson to R. Sherman, 28 Sept. 1768. of Connecticut, will ever concede that Parliament has a right to tax the Colonies. The Parliament of England has no more jurisdiction over us, declared the politicians of that Colony, than the Parliament of Paris. B. Gale quoted in W
Lebanon, Conn. (Connecticut, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
nding of the Colonies from the mother country. No Assembly on the Continent, said Roger Sherman Quoted in W. S. Johnson to R. Sherman, 28 Sept. 1768. of Connecticut, will ever concede that Parliament has a right to tax the Colonies. The Parliament of England has no more jurisdiction over us, declared the politicians of that Colony, than the Parliament of Paris. B. Gale quoted in W. S. Johnson to B. Gale. We cannot believe, wrote William Williams W. Williams to . S. Johnson, Lebanon, Connecticut, 5 July, 1768. of Lebanon, that they will draw the sword on their own children; but if they do, our blood is more at their service than Chap. XXXIV.} 1768. July. our liberties. In New-York, the merchants still held those meetings, which Hillsborough called, if not illegal and unwarrantable, very unnatural, ungrateful, and unbecoming. The circumstances of the Colonies demand firmer union, John Erving to Ezra Stiles, 1 July, 1768. said men of Pennsylvania. The Colonies, wrote C
Halifax, N. C. (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
s been more hurt in this country by some of his own servants, than by all the world besides. expressed publicly their hatred to the country, and in executing their office, did not shun to give offence. The Romney, a ship of fifty guns sent from Halifax at their request, had, for about a month, lain at anchor in the harbor, and forcibly and insolently impressed New England men returning from. sea. On the morning of the tenth of June, one man who had been impressed, was rescued; and when Chaporches. English statesmen were blindly adopting measures to carry out their restrictive policy; Thomas Bradshaw to John Pownall, 8 July, 1768. Circular of Hillsborough, of 11 July, 1768. establishing in America Courts of Vice Admiralty at Halifax, Boston, Philadelphia, and Charleston, Treasury Minute of 30 June, 1768. on the system of Grenville; taking an account of the cost to Chap. XXXIV.} 1768. July. the Exchequer of the Stamp Act, so as to draw on the sinking fund to liquidate t
Providence, R. I. (Rhode Island, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
ate representation in Parliament; George Grenville to Gov. Pownal, 17 July, 1768, in Pownall's Administration of the Colonies: ii. 113, in Ed. of 1777. inattentive to the character of events which were leading to the renovation of the world. Not so the Americans. Village theologians studied the Book of Revelation The Revelation of St. John the Divine, Chap. XVI. to see which seal was next to be broken, which angel was next to sound his trumpet. Is not God preparing the way in his Providence, Ezra Stiles's Correspondence, July, 1768. thus New England ministers communed together, for some remarkable revolutions in Christendom, both in polity and religion? And as they pondered on the prophecies of the New Testament, they were convinced that the time was drawing very near, when the man of sin would be destroyed, and the Church, which, in the mouth of New England divines, included civil and religious liberty, would rise and spread through the nations. Who will deny that the
South Carolina (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
llsborough's letter with the contempt he had ordered them to show for the Circular of Massachusetts. We shall not be intimidated by a few sounding expressions from doing what we think is right, said they in their formal reply; Maryland House of Delegates to Gov. Sharpe. and they sent their thanks to Massachusetts, their sister Colony, in whose opinion they declared they exactly coincided. Maryland to Massachusetts, 23 June, 1768; received early in July, Prior Documents, 219. As for South Carolina, they could not enough praise the glorious ninety-two who would not rescind; toasting them at banquets, and marching by night through the streets of Charleston, in processions to their honor by the blaze of two and ninety torches. English statesmen were blindly adopting measures to carry out their restrictive policy; Thomas Bradshaw to John Pownall, 8 July, 1768. Circular of Hillsborough, of 11 July, 1768. establishing in America Courts of Vice Admiralty at Halifax, Boston, Philad
New Hampshire (New Hampshire, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
would elapse before these orders Chap. XXXIV.} 1768. June. would become known in the Colony. Meantime, the Commissioners of the Customs assumed more and more airs of haughtiness, with the strangest superciliousness Governor Wentworth of New Hampshire to the Marquis of Rockingham, November 13, 1768; in Albemarle's Rockingham, ii. 88. More obstructions have arisen to the service in this country, from the servants of Government, than from any other cause. At first the strangest superciliouss to A. Eliot, 1 July, 1768. to a New England man, who predicted independence; you are an ungracious people. There is original sin in you. You are assertors of Liberty, and the principles of the Revolution. The whole body of the people of New Hampshire were resolved to stand or fall with the Massachusetts. It is best, counselled the good Langdon Samuel Langdon to Ezra Stiles, 6 July, 1768. of Portsmouth, for the Americans to let the King know the utmost of their resolutions, and the dan
New England (United States) (search for this): chapter 11
a month, lain at anchor in the harbor, and forcibly and insolently impressed New England men returning from. sea. On the morning of the tenth of June, one man who use, employing the pen of Samuel Adams Eliot's Biographical Dictionary of New England, sub voce Samuel Adams. without altering a word, reported a letter Bradfoay you now expect, wrote Hollis T. Hollis to A. Eliot, 1 July, 1768. to a New England man, who predicted independence; you are an ungracious people. There is orithe way in his Providence, Ezra Stiles's Correspondence, July, 1768. thus New England ministers communed together, for some remarkable revolutions in Christendom,en the man of sin would be destroyed, and the Church, which, in the mouth of New England divines, included civil and religious liberty, would rise and spread throughcomplex mind by the guiding truths which it developes as it advances? While New England was drawing from the Bible proof of the nearness of the overthrow of tyranny
Samuel Hood (search for this): chapter 11
not only in the town, but throughout the province. Harrison and Hallowell to Commissioners, 14 June, 1768; Letters to the Ministry, 136. On the fifteenth of Chap XXXIV} 1768. June. June, the Commissioners of the Customs wrote to Gage and to Hood, demanding further protection; for, said they, the leaders of the people of Boston will urge them to open revolt. The Commissioners to Gen. Gage and Commodore Hood, 15 June, 1768. Letters to the Ministry, 137. To the Lords of ,the TreasuryCommodore Hood, 15 June, 1768. Letters to the Ministry, 137. To the Lords of ,the Treasury they reported a long concerted and extensive plan of resistance to the authority of Great Britain, breaking out in acts of violence sooner than was intended; and they gave their opinion that nothing but the immediate exertion of military power would prevent an open revolt of the town of Boston, and probably of the Provinces. Commissioners to the Lords of the Treasury, 16 June, 1768. If there is not a revolt, wrote Bernard to Hillsborough, the leaders of the Sons of Liberty must falsify t
Oliver Cromwell (search for this): chapter 11
ough, 9 September, 1768. Otis spoke for nearly two hours. The King, said he, appoints none but boys for his Ministers. They have no education but travelling through France, from whence they return full of the slavish principles of that country. They know nothing of business when they come into their offices, and do not stay long enough in them to acquire that little knowledge which is gained by experience; so that all business is really done by the clerks. He passed an encomium on Oliver Cromwell, and extolled the times preceding his advancement, and particularly the sentence pronounced by the people of England on their King, contrasting the days of the Puritans with the present days, when the people of England no longer knew the rights of Englishmen. He praised, in the highest language, the elegant, pure, and nervous Petition to the King, adopted the last session by the Assembly, but Chap. XXXIV.} 1768. June. rejected by the Minister. And showing the impossibility of their
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