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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 369 369 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 22. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 253 253 Browse Search
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2 25 25 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 24 24 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 23 23 Browse Search
Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 20 20 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 14 14 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3. 13 13 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 13 13 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore) 11 11 Browse Search
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the good of both colonies, we, on our part, shall firmly ratify. May 17, 1660. The same spirit had prevailed for years Albany Records, IV. 165. There had long existed a republican party; and, now that monarchy had fallen, on whom could the royalists rely so safely as on themselves? The executive officers became elective; and so evident were the designs of all parties to promote an amicable settlement of the government, that Richard Bennett, himself a commissioner of the Chap VI.} 1652. April 30. parliament, and, moreover, a merchant and a Roundhead, was, on the recommendation of the other commissioners, unanimously chosen governor. Hening, i. 371. See Stith, 199, who tells the story rightly.—Strange, that historians would not take a hint from the accurate Stith! The oath required of the burgesses made it their paramount duty to provide for the general good and prosperity of Virginia and its inhabitants. Hening, i. 371. Under the administration of Berkeley, Bennett had been
grubbed out by the hangman's knife, stand fast; be faithful to God and your country; or you bring on yourselves and your children perpetual slavery. The dungeon, the pillory. and the scaffold, were but stages in the progress of civil liberty towards its triumph. Yet there was a period when the ministry of Charles hoped for success. No considerable resistance was threatened within the limits of England; and not even America could long be safe against the designs of des- Chap X.} 1637 April 30. potism. A proclamation was issued to prevent the emigration of Puritans; Hazard, i. 421. the king refused his dissenting subjects the security of the wilderness. It was probably a foreboding of these dangers, which induced the legislation of Massachusetts to exaggerate the necessity of domestic union. Colony Laws, edition of 1660, 73 III. Mass. Hist. Coll. III. 398. In England the proclamation was but little regarded. The Puritans, hemmed in by dangers on every side, and at tha