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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Colonial history. (search)
in England a few months before his end, and of which the earliest rumors may have reached his death-bed. Dixwell died March 18, 1689, aged 81. Three of the regicides, who had escaped to Holland, found themselves, in the territory of a free and independent state, The story in Pepys, II. 149, 150, 4to. ed., is very unfavorable to De Witt. less securely sheltered than their colleagues in the secret places of a dependent colony. They were apprehended in Holland, surrendered by 1662 April 19. the states, and executed in England. Retributive justice, thought many, required the execution of regicides. One victim was selected for his genius and integrity; such was the terror inspired by their influence. Now that all England was carried away with eagerness for monarchy, Sir Henry Vane, the former governor of Massachusetts, the benefactor of Rhode Island, the ever-faithful friend of New England, adhered with undaunted firmness to the glorious cause of popular liberty; and, shun
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 13: (search)
oves on the savannahs, that resembled the parks in England; Wilson's Carolina. 11 the laws of the moral world are unyielding. A parliamentary convention was held; five members of the grand council were elected to act with five whom the proprietaries had appointed; the whole body possessed a veto on the executive; and, with the governor and twenty delegates, who were now elected by the people, constituted the legislature of the province. Representative government was established 1672. April 19. and continued to be cherished. In 1672, all previous parliaments and parliamentary conventions were dissolved; for the colonists, now rapidly increasing, demanded a new parliament. Such was the government which South Carolina instituted for herself; it did not deem it possible to conform more closely to the constitutions. But the proprietaries indulged the vision of realizing their introduction. John Locke, with Sir John Yeamans and James Carteret, was created a landgrave; and the revi
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 17: (search)
the cry of the oppressed, and advise all our neighbors, for whom we have thus ventured ourselves, to joyn with us in prayers and all just actions for the defence of the land. On Charlestown side, a thousand soldiers crowded together; and the multitude would have been larger if needed. The governor, vainly attempting to escape to the frigate, was, with his creatures, compelled to seek protection by submission; through the streets where he had first displayed his scar- Chap XVII.} 1689 April 19. let coat and arbitrary commission, he and his fellows were marched to the town-house, and thence to prison. On the next day, the country came swarming across the Charlestown and Chelsea ferries, headed by Shepherd, a schoolmaster of Lynn. All the cry was against Lambeth Mss 1025 Andros and Randolph. The castle was taken; the frigate was mastered; the fortifications were occupied. How should a new government be instituted? Townmeetings, before news had arrived of the proclamation