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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 42: (search)
ty, although soldiers were repeatedly rescued from peace officers, and contrived to evade legal punishments. Paper by James Bowdoin. In November, a true Bill was found by the Grand Nov. Jury against Thomas Gage, as well as many others, for slandering the town of Boston. Indictment found and Presented by the Grand Jury at Boston I have the originals of some of them. Dalrymple was so continually engaged in disagreeable broils, that he and other officers longed to leave the town. Martial Law not having been proclaimed, a military force, Hutchinson owned, was of no sort of use, and was perfectly despised. Hutchinson's Hist. III. 263. Troops, said Samuel Adams, which have heretofore been the terror of the enemies to liberty, parade the streets, to become the objects of the contempt even of women and children. Samuel Adams to D. De Berdt, 6 Nov. 1769. The menace that he and his friends should be arrested and shipped to England, was no more Chap. XLII.} 1769. Nov. he
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 45: (search)
s never shown than prevailed in CHAP XLV.} 1770. July. London at the news that America was resuming commercial intercourse. The occasion invited corresponding concessions, which Lord North would have willingly made; but the majority of his colleagues had been led to consider the state of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay more desperate than ever; State of the Disorders Confusion and Misgovernment, &c. &c. and on the sixth of July the King in Council gave an order, making a beginning of Martial Law within that Province, and preparing the way for closing the Port of Boston. Hutchinson paid court by acting in the same spirit; and in July once more summoned the Legislature to Cambridge. For this repeated wrong to the public service of the Colony, he continued to offer no other excuse than the King's will. The highest advocate for the divine right of regal power had never gone so far as to claim, that it might CHAP. XLV.} 1770. July. be used at caprice, to inflict wanton injury.
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 49: (search)
nd in London, to burn such of his letters as might raise a clamor, for, said he, I have wrote what ought not to be made public. Hutchinson to Sir Francis Bernard, probably, 14 June, 1773. He had written against every part of the Constitution, the elective character of the Council, the annual choice of the Assembly, the New England organization of the towns; had advised and solicited the total dependence of the judiciary on the Crown, had hinted at making the experiment of declaring Martial Law, and of abrogating English liberty; had advised to the restraint of the commerce of Boston and the exclusion of the Province from the fisheries; had urged the immediate suppression of the Charter of Rhode Island; had for years been begging for measures to maintain the supremacy of Parliament, by making the denial of that supremacy a capital felony; and all for the sake of places for his family and a salary and a pension for himself. To corrupt pure and good and free political institution