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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)
to forfeit the elective franchise. Could a milder course have been proposed? When, by experience, this engagement was found irksome to the Quakers, it was the next year repealed. Brinley, in Mass. Hist. Coll. v. 216—220; Holmes, i. 341. Compare, in reply, Eddy in Mass. Hist. Coll. XVII. 97; Knowles, 324, 325. Once, indeed, Rhode Island was betrayed into Chap. XI.} inconsistency. There had been great difficulties in collecting taxes, and towns had refused to pay their rates. In 1671, the general assembly passed a law, inflicting a severe penalty on any one who should speak in town-meeting against the payment of the assessments. The law lost to its advocates their reelection in the next year, the magistrates were 1672. selected from the people called Quakers, and freedom of debate was restored. George Fox himself was present among his Friends, demanding a double diligence in guards against oppression, and in the firm support of the good of the people. The instruction
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 12: (search)
uncil was overawed by the moral dignity which they could not comprehend. There were great debates, in which the king Evelyn,. II. 343 took part, in what style 1671 May 26. to write to New England. Charles himself commended this affair more expressly, because the colony was rich and strong; able to contest with all other plan- Chap. XII.} 1671. tations about them; there is fear, said the monarch, of their breaking from all dependence on this nation. Some of the council proposed a menacing letter, which those who better understood the peevish and touchy humor of that colonie were utterly against. After many days, it was concluded, Evelyn, II. 34having at first preached beneath the shade of a forest tree, now lived to behold the country full of convenient churches; the tolerant Willoughby, who had pleaded 1671. for the Baptists; the incorruptible Bellingham, precise 1672. in his manners, and rigid in his principles of independence;—these, and others, the fathers of the
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 13: (search)
olony of the English; the emigrants, after short delay, Ramsay says, i. 2, in 1671. He is in error. See Dalcho, 9. See, also, Dalcho, p. 10, where it appears haeamans and James Carteret, was created a landgrave; and the revised copy of the 1671. Model was sent over, with a set of rules and instructions. But Shaftesbury misan to throng to her soil. The proprietaries continued to send emigrants, who 1671. were tempted by the offer of land Chalmers, 529. Dalcho, 19. at an easy quinegroes as well as Christians. From Barbadoes arrived Sir John Yeamans, with 1671. African slaves. Dalcho, 13. Hewat, i. 53 Thus the institution of negro slavMore definite, Dalcho, p. 12. Ramsay, i. 4, errs in his date. The voyage was in 1671, not in 1674. Imagination already regarded Carolina as the chosen Chap XIIIony. His successor, Sir John Yeamans, was a sordid calculator, bent on acquir- 1671. ing a fortune. He encouraged his employers in expense, and enriched himself, w
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 14: (search)
ace the Remedy. Virginia's Cure, p. 5. The system of common schools was unknown. Every man, said Sir William Berkeley in 1671, instructs his children according to his ability; a method which left the children of the ignorant to hopeless ignorance. lony from an early period, and whose importation was favored both by English cupidity and by provincial statutes. Ibid. 1671, c. ii.; confirmed 1672, c. ii.; renewed Oct. 1692, c. LII. As in Virginia, the appointing power to nearly every office inished. But the mildest and most amiable feature of legislation is found in the acts of compromise Ibid. 1662, c. XIX.; 1671, c.XL 1674, c. i. between Lord 1662. Baltimore and the representatives of the people, in 1671. which the power of the fo1671. which the power of the former to raise taxes was 1674. accurately limited, and the mode of paying quit-rents established on terms favorable to the colony; while, on the other hand, a custom of two shillings a hogshead was levied on all exported tobacco, of which a moiety wa
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 16: (search)
parliament and the nation in the noblest plea for liberty of conscience—a liberty which he defended by arguments drawn from experience, from religion, and from reason. If the efforts of the Quakers cannot obtain the olive branch of toleration, we bless the providence of God, resolving by patience to out weary persecution, and by our constant sufferings to obtain a victory more glorious than our adversaries can achieve by their cruelties. On his release from imprisonment, a calmer season 1671 to 1673 followed. Penn travelled in Holland and Germany; then returning to England, he married a woman of extraordinary beauty and sweetness of temper, whose noble spirit chose him before many suitors, and honored him with a deep and upright love. As persecution in England was suspended, he enjoyed for Chap XVI.} two years the delights of rural life, and the animating pursuit of letters; till the storm was renewed, and the imprisonment of George Fox, on his return from America, demanded i
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 17: (search)
aved to prelacy; it obtained one indifferent to all religion, and careless of every thing but pleasure. Buckingham, the noble buffoon at its head, debauched other men's wives, fought duels, and kept about him a train of vo- Chap. XVII.} 1668 to 1671. luptuaries; but he was not, like Clarendon, a tory by system; far from building up the exclusive Church of England, he ridiculed bishops as well as sermons; and when the Quakers went to him with their hats on, to discourse on the equal rights of tendency of the cabal became apparent, a new division necessarily followed: the king was surrounded by men who still desired to uphold the prerogative, and stay the movement of the age; while Shaftesbury, always consistent in his purpose, unwill- 1671 to 1673. North. ing to hurt the king, yet desiring to keep him tame in a cage; averse to the bishops, because the bishops would place prerogative above liberty; averse to democracy, because democracy would substitute freedom for privilege,—in org