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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 5: (search)
e Chap. V.} 1778. Nov. inhabitants, most of them women and children. The story of these massacres was repeated from village to village, and strengthened the purpose of resistance. With the year 1778, South Carolina, which for two years had been unvisited by an enemy, after long deliberation established a permanent form of government. Immediately after the general declaration of independence, its citizens, by common consent, intrusted constituent powers to their representatives. In January, 1777, a bill for the new constitution was introduced. Hitherto the legislative council had been chosen by the general assembly. A bold effort was made, in like manner, to confer the election of the senate on the assembly, because in that way Charleston, through its numerous representation, would have controlled the choice. On this point the country members would not yield; but the distribution of the representation in the general assembly was left unchanged. The bill was then printed and
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 7: (search)
ui, ne pouvant discerner les vrais billets de faux, refusera de les recevoir, et le congres manquant une fois de credit public, trouverait beaucoup de difficulties à le retablir. Maltzan au roi, 2 Avril, 1776. In Octo- Chap. VII.} 1776. ber, 1776, congress, which possessed no independent resources and no powers on which credit could be founded, opened loan offices in the several states, and authorized a lottery. In December it issued five million dollars more in continental bills. In January, 1777, when they had sunk to one-half of their pre- 1777. tended value, it denounced every person who would not receive them at par as a public enemy, liable to forfeit whatever he offered for sale; and it requested the state legislatures to declare them a lawful tender. This Massachusetts had enacted a month before; and the example was followed throughout the union. The states were at the same time invited to cancel their respective quotas of continental bills, and to become creditors of
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 17: (search)
ed to unsaint every man who still yielded to the prevailing prejudice, declared with others against perpetuating slavery, and in November, 1776, published in the Independent Chronicle a plan sent from Connecticut for its gradual extermination out of that colony. In the same month and in the same newspaper, a son of liberty demanded the repeal of all laws supporting slavery, because they were contrary to sound reason and revelation. Moore's History of Slavery in Massachusetts, 177. In January, 1777, seven-negro slaves joined in petitioning the general court that they might be restored to that freedom which is the natural right of all men, and that their children might not be held as slaves after they arrive at the age of twenty-one years. This petition was referred to a very able committee, on which are the names of Sergeant and John Lowell of Boston, both zealous abolitionists; the latter then the leading lawyer in the state. In May, 1777, just before the meeting of the genera