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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition., Chapter 11: (search)
he mem- Chap. XI.} 1774. Sept. bers of congress, meeting at Smith's tavern, moved in a body to select the place for their deliberations. Galloway, the speaker of Pennsylvania, would have had them use the State House, but the carpenters of Philadelphia offered their plain but spacious hall; and from respect for the mechanics, it was accepted by a great majority. The names of the members were then called over, and Patrick Henry, Washington, Richard Henry Lee, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Jay, Gadsden, John Rutledge of South Carolina, the aged Hopkins of Rhode Island, and others, representing eleven colonies, answered to the call. Peyton Randolph, late speaker of the assembly of Virginia, was nominated president by Lynch of Carolina, and was unanimously chosen. The body then named itself the congress, and its chairman the president. Jay and Duane would have selected a secretary from among the members themselves, but they found no support; and on the motion of Lynch, Charles Thomson wa
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition., Chapter 13: (search)
association, three of the delegates of that colony refused their names. The agreement to stop exports to Great Britain is unequal, reasoned Rutledge; New England ships little or nothing there, but sends fish, its great staple, to Portugal or Spain; South Carolina annually ships rice to England to the value of a million and a half of dollars. New England would be affected but little by the prohibition; Carolina would be ruined; and he and two of his colleagues withdrew from the congress. Gadsden, who never counted the cost of patriotism, remained in his place, and trusting to the generosity of his constituents, declared himself ready to sign the association. All business was interrupted for several days; but in the end congress recalled the seceders by allowing the unconditional export of rice. The association further contained this memorable covenant, which was adopted without opposition, Chap. XIII.} 1774. Oct. and inaugurated the abolition of the slave-trade: We will neith
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition., Chapter 19: (search)
hered to the recent congress, and elected delegates to the next. At the other, South Carolina on the eleventh of January held a general meeting, Jan 1<*> which was soon resolved into a provincial congress, with Charles Pinckney for president. They then called upon their deputies to explain, why they had not included in the list of grievances the entire series of monopolies and restrictions; and they murmured at the moderation of Virginia which had refused to look further back than 1763. Gadsden proposed to strike out the exceptional privilege in the association in favor of exporting rice. The Chap. XIX.} 1775. Jan. 11. torrent of enthusiasm was able to have broken down the plea of interest; and after a debate of a whole day, in which John Rutledge pointed out the practical inequality and general impolicy of extending the restriction, nearly half the body, seventy-five members against eighty-seven, were still ready to sacrifice the whole rice crop. Had the minority prevailed, t