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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition. 16 0 Browse Search
Henry Morton Stanley, Dorothy Stanley, The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley 2 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 2 0 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 2 0 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 16: (search)
ng the resolves of Virginia. The patriots of Rhode Island, remembering the renowned founders of the colonies, thanked God, that their pleasant homes in the western world abounded in the means of defence. Providence Gaz. Ex., 24 August, 1765. Lloyd's Conduct, 90, 91. That little turbulent colony, reported Gage, Gage to Lee, Sept. 1765. raised their mob likewise. And on the twenty-eighth day of August, after destroying the house and furniture of one Howard, who had written, and of one Moffat, who had spoken in favor of the power of parliament to tax America, they gathered round the house of their stamp officer, and, after a parley, compelled him to resign. At New-York, the Lieutenant-Governor expressed a wish to the General for aid from the army. You shall have as many troops as you shall demand, and can find quarters for, replied Gage; and at the same time, he urged Colden to the severe exertion of the civil power. The public papers, he continued, are crammed with treason,
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 21: (search)
have the Precis, preserved in the French Archives, and a pretty full report by Moffat of Rhode Island, who was present. I approve the address in answer to the kiar, fixed for the reciprocal benefit of the parent country and her colonies. Moffat. The British parliament, as the supreme governing and legislative power, has aling down a loom in the most distant corner of the British empire in America; Moffat. and if this power were denied, I would not permit them to manufacture a lock of wool, or form a horse-shoe, or a hob-nail. Moffat. Compare Geo. Grenville to Knox, 15 Aug. 1768. Extra-Official State Papers, II. Appendix, No. 3. p. 15. But I the king's servants, and wish it may be the unanimous opinion of the house. Moffat. Garth to South Carolina, 19 Jan. 1766. I have been accidentally called to the s notions too much relied upon, as if we were but in the morning of liberty. Moffat. I can acknowledge no veneration for any procedure, law, or ordinance, that is
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 24: (search)
cumbering the office from which they were issued. At the same time the merchants of London wrote to entreat the merchants of America to take no offence at the declaratory act, and in letters, which Rockingham and Sir George Saville MS. draft of a letter with the corrections in my possession. corrected, the ministers signified to the dissenters in America, how agreeable the spirit of gratitude would be to the dissenters in England, and to the Presbyterians to the north of the Tweed. Moffat to Stiles, 18 March, 1766. A change of ministry was more and more spoken of. The nation demanded to see Pitt in the government; and two of the ablest members of the cabinet, Grafton and Conway, continued to insist upon it. But Rockingham, who, during the repeal of the Stamp Act, had been dumb, leaving the brunt of the battle to be borne by Camden and Shelburne, was determined it should not be so; Grafton to Conway, 22 April, 1766. and Newcastle and Winchelsea and Egmont concurred wit