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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 29: (search)
tending to violence should be taken to maintain the dependence of the Colonies, it would hasten a separation; Jonathan Trumbull to William S. Johnson, 23 June, 1767. that the connection with England could be preserved by gentle and insensible methods, rather than by power or force. But not so reasoned Townshend, who, after the Whitsuntide Holidays, stole Lord Beauchamp in Cavendish Debates, i. 215. his Bill imperceptibly through both Houses. W. S. Johnson to Dep. Gov. Trumbull, 14 Sept. 1767. Garth to Committee of South Carolina, 6 June, 1767. The Stamp Act had called an American revenue just and necessary; and had been repealed as impolitic. Townshend's Preamble to his Bill granting duties in America on glass, red and white lead, painter's colors and paper, and three pence a pound on tea, declared an American revenue expedient. 7 Geo. III. c. XLVI. By another Act 7 Geo. III. c. XLI. a July. Board of Customs was established at Boston; and general Writs of Assistan
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 30: (search)
lluring to Choiseul; and he judged correctly of the nearness of the conflict. The die is thrown, said men in Boston, on hearing the Revenue Act had been carried through. The Rubicon is past. Compare the Narrative in Bernard to Shelburne, 14 Sept. 1767.—We will form one universal combination, it was whispered, to eat nothing, drink nothing, and wear nothing imported from Great Britain. Compare Letter of Hutchinson, 18 July, 1767. The Fourteenth of August was commemorated as the Anniversat, 1767. And when it was con– sidered, that Mansfield and the Ministry declared Aug. some of the grants in colonial Charters to be nugatory on the ground of their extent, the press of Boston, in concert with New-York, Bernard to Shelburne, 14 Sept. 1767. following the precedent set by Molineux in his argument for Ireland, reasoned the matter through to its logical conclusion. Liberty, said the earnest writer, In the Boston Gazette of the 24th of August, appeared a paper taken from Moli