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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter XLI (search)
s of Treason. He desponded when conciliation prevailed in England. The officers of the army and the navy despised him for his cowardice and duplicity, and did not conceal their contempt. He has essentially served us, said the patriot clergyman Cooper; Cooper to Gov. Pownall, 11 May, 1769. had he been wise, our liberties might have been lost. As he departed from Boston, the bells were rung, and cannon fired from the wharfs; Liberty Tree was gay with flags; and at night a great bonfire waCooper to Gov. Pownall, 11 May, 1769. had he been wise, our liberties might have been lost. As he departed from Boston, the bells were rung, and cannon fired from the wharfs; Liberty Tree was gay with flags; and at night a great bonfire was kindled upon Fort Hill. When be reached England, he found that the Ministry had promised Chap. XLI.} 1769. July. the London merchants never to employ him in America again. Frances to Choiseul, 11 August, 1769. And yet he was the Governor whom they had most trusted; for bad men fit bad ends; and the selfish oligarchy by which England was then governed, feeling themselves rebuked by the noble and the free, hated them as dangerous to their rule. Aristotle's Politics, v. c. IX. While
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 43: (search)
this metropolis, and indeed the whole Province under duress, wrote Cooper, the minister. The troops greatly corrupt our morals, and are in etus, in Boston Gazette, of 8 January, 1770. The merchants, Dr. Cooper to Gov. Pownall, 30 January, 1770. in pursuance of a vote at a vetulation was immediately reported to the meeting and accepted. Dr. Cooper to Gov Pownall. Hutchinson to Sir Francis Bernard, and several ls' Commissioners of Hutchinson, and he can never recover them. Dr. Cooper to Gov. Pownall, 30 January, 1770. I am a ruined man, said he des eleven, the Town Meeting was opened in Faneuil Hall by prayer from Cooper; then Samuel Adams and fourteen others, among them, Hancock and Moecretary Oliver, in Bradford, 264. Compare also Private Letters of Cooper, Hutchinson, and others. The people, they answered, not only in thirtain. Hutchinson to Lord Hillsborough, 12 March, 1770. 3. Rev. Dr. Cooper's opinion is worthy of great attention. Soldiers &c. fired wi
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 44: (search)
thod I will try, before I will give up my right. Gentlemen talk of the harsh measures pursued by this country towards America. Every session has produced some mark of affection towards her; bounty after bounty; importation of flax; permission to export rice. We are treated as hard task-masters, because we will not give up an undoubted right of the Legislature. Thomas Pownall moved the repeal of the duty on tea also. The House of Commons, like Lord North in his heart, Franklin to Dr. Cooper, 8 June, 1770; Franklin's Works, VII. 475. And compare VII. 467. was disposed to do the work of conciliation thoroughly. It was known that Grenville would not give an adverse vote. Compare Du Chatelet to the Duke of Choiseul, No. 38; 27 Feb. 1770. It is the sober opinion of the Americans, said Mackay, fresh from the military Command in Boston, that you have no right to tax them. When beaten out of every argument, they adduce the authority of the first man of the law, and the first ma
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 50: (search)
, 21 Dec. The Governor, meantime, was consulting his books and his lawyers to make out, that the Resolves of the meeting were treasonable. Threats were muttered of arrests; of executions; of transportation of the accused to England; while the Committee of Correspondence pledged themselves to support and vindicate each other and all persons who had shared in their effort. The country was united with the town, and the Colonies with one another more firmly than Chap. L.} 1773. Dec. ever. Cooper to Franklin, 17 Dec. 1773; S. Adams to James Warren, 28 Dec. 1773. 1773. The Philadelphians unanimously approved what Boston had done. Clymer and Mifflin to S. Adams. New-York, Haldimand to Dartmouth, 28 Dec. 1773. all impatient at the winds which had driven its tea-ship off the coast, was resolved on following the example. In South Carolina the ship with two hundred and fifty-seven chests of tea, arrived on the second of December; the spirit of opposition ran very high; but the con