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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 48: (search)
r preventing imaginary rebellions in the new, and to the new country for the payment of needless gratifications to useless officers and enemies; I cannot but doubt their sincerity even in the political principles they profess, and deem them mere time-servers, seeking their own private emoluments, through any quantity of public mischief; betrayers of the interest not of their native country only, but of the Government they pretend to serve, and of the whole English empire. B. Franklin to T. Gushing, 2 Dec. 1772. While the letters were on their way, the towns in the Province were just coming together under the impulse from Boston. The people of Marblehead, whose fishermen were all returned from their annual summer's excursion to the Grand Banks, at a full meeting, with but one dissentient, expressed their unavoidable disesteem and reluctant irreverence for the British Parliament; their sense of the great and uncommon kind of grievance, of being compelled to carry the produce of S
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 49: (search)
s of Correspondence to Richard Henry Lee of Virginia. The letter of Cushing seems to be lost; its purport appears from the unpublished answer of R. H. Lee to T. Gushing, Lee Hall, Potomack Virginia, 13 Feb. 1773. The Governor, in his Speech to the two Houses, with calculating malice summoned them to admit or disprove the sue offer our lives as a sacrifice in the glorious cause of Liberty; was the response of Kittery. We will not sit down easy, voted Shirley, until Franklin to T. Gushing, 9 March, 1773;--viii. 35. our rights and liberties are restored. Shirley to Boston Com. 11 Jan. 1773. The people of Chap. XLIX.} 1773. Jan. Medfield woulhe Colonies, if not all, will come into the like resolutions, and if the colonies are not soon relieved, some imagine a Congress will grow out of this measure. T. Gushing to A. Lee, 22 April, 1773. In Massachusetts they gladdened every heart. Virginia and South Carolina by their steady perseverance, inspired the hope, that the f
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 50: (search)
s the first, the last, the only hope for America. Massachusetts, where the overruling will of Samuel Adams swayed the feebler politicians, was thoroughly united. But that was not enough; we must have a Convention of all the Colonies, he would say to his friends; and the measure was recognised by the royalists as of all others the most likely to kindle a general flame. Hutchinson to J. Pownall, 18 Oct. 1773. His advice was confirmed by the concurrent opinion of Franklin, Franklin to T. Gushing, 7 July, 1773; Hutchinson to Dartmouth, 19 October, 1773. to whose greatness Samuel Adams in Boston Gazette, 963, 3, 1, 2. See Wedderburne's Speech, 111. he had publicly paid a tribute. His influence Others declare they will be altogether independent. Those of the latter opinion have for their head one of the members of Boston [Samuel Adams], who was the first person that openly and in any public assembly declared for a total independence, and who from a natural obstinacy of temper,