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France (France) (search for this): chapter 23
in every thing but tea. Lieut. Gov. Bull to the Secretary of State, 13 Dec. 1770. For a moment rumors of war between Great Britain and the united Kings of France and Spain, Chap. XLVI.} 1770. Dec. gave hope of happy effects. Compare A. Eliot to T. Hollis, 26 Jan. 1771. But this also failed. England, following the impu the friend of philosophy, freedom of industry, and colonial independence. Thoroughly a Frenchman, as Chatham was thoroughly an Englishman, he longed to renovate France that she might revenge the wounds inflicted on her glory. For this end he had sought to improve her finances, restore her marine, reform her army, and surround h, was a pledge for the friendship of Austria; Prussia was conciliated; while the Family Compact insured at Naples and in the Spanish peninsula the predominance of France, which had nothing but friends from the Bosphorus to Cadiz. It marks the sway of philosophy that crowds paid their homage to the retiring Statesman; he was dea
Austria (Austria) (search for this): chapter 23
e was impassioned for war, as his enemies pretended, but because he was the friend of philosophy, freedom of industry, and colonial independence. Thoroughly a Frenchman, as Chatham was thoroughly an Englishman, he longed to renovate France that she might revenge the wounds inflicted on her glory. For this end he had sought to improve her finances, restore her marine, reform her army, and surround her by allies. Marie Antoinette, the wife of the Dauphin, was a pledge for the friendship of Austria; Prussia was conciliated; while the Family Compact insured at Naples and in the Spanish peninsula the predominance of France, which had nothing but friends from the Bosphorus to Cadiz. It marks the sway of philosophy that crowds paid their homage to the retiring Statesman; he was dear to the Parliaments he had defended, to men of letters he had encouraged, and to Frenchmen whose hearts beat for the honor of their land in its rivalry with England. His policy was so identified with the pa
South Carolina (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 23
70. and he was sure that the unreasonableness of Great Britain would precipitate the epoch of American Independence. South Carolina received his letters, still urging union, directing attention to the Chap. XLVI.} 1770. Dec. necessity, of finding loquence; and even shed tears for the expiring liberty of his country. He was seconded by Gadsden and Mackenzie; but South Carolina could neither continue non-importation alone; nor by itself devise a new system. Its association was dissolved, liken having five thousand and thirty white inhabitants, with five thousand eight hundred and thirtythree blacks, State of South Carolina, by Lieut. Gov. Bull, 30 Nov. 1770. commerce resumed its wonted activity in every thing but tea. Lieut. Gov. ators to submission. President Hazel of North Carolina Council to Hillsborough, 4 July, 1771. The Governors of South Carolina and of Virginia, were requested not to harbor the fugitives. But the Chap. XLVI.} 1771. June. far wilderness offe
Pittsburg Landing (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 23
d walnut, were in the undisputed possession of countless buffaloes, whose bellowings resounded from hill and forest. Ramsey's Annals of Tennessee, 105. Haywood's Civil and Political History of Tennessee, 77. Sometimes trappers and restless emigrants, boldest of their class, took the risk of crossing the country from Carolina to the Mississippi; but of those who perished by the way, no tradition preserves the names. Others, following the natural highways of the West, descended from Pittsburg, and from Red Stone Creek to Fort Natchez. The pilot, who conducted the party of which Samuel Wells and John MacIntire were the Chiefs, was so attracted by the lands round the Fort, that he promised to remove there in the spring with his wife and family, and believed a hundred families from North Carolina Letter dated Fort Natchez, 19 July, 1770. Compare Hillsborough to Chester, 3 Oct. 1770; Gage to Hillsborough, 24 April, 1770. would follow. The zeal of hunters and emigrants outra
Chatham (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 23
oiseul. Lord North gained honor by allowing Chap. XLVI.} 1770. Dec. Weymouth to retire, and standing firmly for peace; but it was Choiseul's moderation which prevented a rupture. On the twenty-fourth of December the ablest French Minister of the century was dismissed from office and exiled to Chanteloupe, not because he was impassioned for war, as his enemies pretended, but because he was the friend of philosophy, freedom of industry, and colonial independence. Thoroughly a Frenchman, as Chatham was thoroughly an Englishman, he longed to renovate France that she might revenge the wounds inflicted on her glory. For this end he had sought to improve her finances, restore her marine, reform her army, and surround her by allies. Marie Antoinette, the wife of the Dauphin, was a pledge for the friendship of Austria; Prussia was conciliated; while the Family Compact insured at Naples and in the Spanish peninsula the predominance of France, which had nothing but friends from the Bosphoru
Suffolk (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 23
ral, that it was sure to return in spite of the royalist Chap. XLVI.} 1771. Jan. party and the Court, and even though he himself was never again to be intrusted with the conduct of affairs. The cause of royalty was, for the time, triumphant in the cabinets; and had America then risen, she would have found no friends to cheer her on. At the same time the British Ministry attracted to itself that part of the Opposition which was composed of Grenville's friends. Now that he was no more, Suffolk became Secretary of State, instead of Weymouth; and Thurlow being promoted, Wedderburn, whose credit for veracity Lord North so lately impeached, and who in his turn had denied to that Minister honor and respectability,—refused to go upon a forlorn hope; and with unblushing effrontery, leased his powers of eloquence to the Government in return for the office of Solicitor General. King to Lord North, 19 Dec. 1770. By these arrangements Lord North obtained twelve new votes. Frances to t
Tennessee (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 23
Chapter 46: The origin of Tennessee.—Hillsborough's Administration of the Colonies continu from hill and forest. Ramsey's Annals of Tennessee, 105. Haywood's Civil and Political History of Tennessee, 77. Sometimes trappers and restless emigrants, boldest of their class, took the greatest benefactor of the early settlers of Tennessee, confirming to them peace, securing their inard's Civil and Political History of the State of Tennessee, 39, 40. He was followed to the Westtched James Robertson Haywood's Hist. of Tennessee, 42. 1771. as their envoy to the Council of written association, Haywood's Hist. of Tennessee, 41; J. G. M. Ramsey's Annals of Tennessee, Tennessee, 107. appointed their own magistrates, James Robertson among the first; framed laws for their presenVI. taineers who planted the commonwealth of Tennessee, a bloodthirsty Governor, in his vengeful ze Constitution adopted by the Settlers of Eastern Tennessee. Its existence was ascertained by Hayw
New Bern (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 23
McNair, of 9th October, 1770. The Assembly which convened in December, at Newbern, was chosen under a state of alarm and vague Dec. apprehension. Tryon had seith the Chief Justice, Tryon to Hillsborough, 31 Jan. 1771. Letter from Newbern, N. C. 5 Oct. 1770. Letter from a Gentleman in N. C. to his friend in New Jersey . prompted them to join for the rescue of Husbands. Tryon was intimidated. Newbern might be attacked and his newly finished palace, source of so much gratificatiage of the Riot Act, he had by special commission called the Judges to meet at Newbern on the sixth of February. No sooner were they assembled, than he conspired wivenge. Chap. XLVI.} 1771. March On the eleventh of March the Court opened at Newbern; with willing witnesses and a unanimous Grand Jury, sixty-one Tryon to Hillwhile Tryon crossed the Eno, and the Haw; and the men who had been indicted at Newbern for felonies, were already advertised as outlaws, when on the evening of the f
Illinois (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 23
he Settlers of Eastern Tennessee. Its existence was ascertained by Haywood, the careful historian of that com- Chap. XLVI monwealth. Ramsey has adopted all that was preserved by Haywood, and has added the results of his own persevering researches. To these authorities I am able to subjoin the evidence of a contemporary witness. In a letter from the Governor of Virginia to the British Secretary of State, pleading warmly in favor of the propriety of making grants of land at the West, in Illinois, he derives his strongest argument from the establishment of this very Republic of Watauga. Extract of a letter from the Earl of Dunmore, Governor of Virginia, to the Earl of Dartmouth, Secretary of State. Williamsburg, 16 May, 1774. * * * Whatever may be the law with respect to the title, there are, I think, divers reasons which should induce his majesty to comply with the petition, so far at least, as to admit the petitioners and their acquisitions, if not into this government,
Mecklenburg (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 23
hip's reflections the tendency this expedition has had on the frontiers of every Colony in British America, was the self-laudatory remark of Tryon to Hillsborough. Tryon to Hillsborough, New-York, 1 August, 1771. The insolent extortioners and officers whom the Regulators had vainly sued for redress, taunted them with their ill fortune, saying, Alamance is your court of record. Boston Gazette, 22 July, 1771; 849, 2, 3. Yet the record was not closed. In the old counties of Orange and Mecklenburg, the overhill glades of Carolina, and the little band of moun- Chap. XLVI. taineers who planted the commonwealth of Tennessee, a bloodthirsty Governor, in his vengeful zeal for the Crown, had treasured up wrath for the day of wrath. Note. The successor of Tryon reached Carolina in August, 1771, and drank in all the accounts of the glorious spirit, which had defeated the Regulators near the Alamance. The next year he made a tour into Orange County. The result of his observations
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