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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., The crisis (search)
y, and were zealots for governing the colonies by the hand of power. Rigby to Bedford, in Bedford Cor., 4 June, 1766. In America half suppressed murmurs mingled with the general transport. Arbitrary taxation by Parliament Philalethes in Holt's Gazette, No. 1218, 8 May, 1766. began to be compared with restrictions on industry and trade, and the latter were found to be Chap. XXV.} 1766. May. the more slavish thing of the two, and the more inconsistent with civil liberty. The protest and it advised the different Assemblies, without mentioning the proceedings of Parliament, to enter upon their journals as strong declarations of their own rights as words could express. A British American, Virginia, 20 May, 1766, reprinted in Holt's Gazette, 1226; 3 July, 1766. Compare Moore to the Secretary of State, 11 July, 1766. To the anxious colonies, Boston proposed union as the means of security. While within its own borders it sought the total abolishing of slavery, and encou
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 27: (search)
rs as necessary for the enforcement of the Navigation Acts, and even for the existence of Government. When the soldiers stationed in New-York had, in the night Holt's Gazette, 1232; 14 Aug. 1766, and 1233, 21 Aug. 1766. Dunlap's History of New-York, i. 433; Isaac Q. Leake's Life of John Lamb, 36. of the tenth of August, cut d soldiery continued to irritate the people by insolent language, and by once more cutting down their flagstaff; Dunlap's New-York, i. 433; Leake's Lamb, 32, 33; Holt's Gazette, 14 Aug. and 21 Aug. 1766, and 25 Sept. 1766. so that the Billeting Act could find no favor. Shelburne Shelburne to Sir Henry Moore, 9 Aug. 1766. souby imposing heavier burdens than the people could support. Address of the Assembly of New-York to the Governor, delivered 18 Dec. 1766, in Prior Documents, 120; Holt's N. Y. Gazette, 1251, 24 Dec. 1766. This prudent reserve secured unanimity in the Assembly and among their constituents. Gov. Moore to Board of Trade, 19 Dec.
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 43: (search)
printed at Philadelphia in March, copied into the Boston Gazette of 16 April, 1770; 784, 2, 182. was persecuted by the Government. In consequence of his appeal to the people against the concessions of the Assembly, which voted supplies to the troops, he was indicted for a libel; and refusing to give bail, this first Son of Liberty in bonds for the glorious cause was visited by such throngs in his prison, that he was obliged to appoint hours for their reception. Leake's Life of Lamb, 61. Holt's Gazette. Intelligence of these events, especially of the con- Chap XLIII.} 1770. Feb. flict of the citizens with the soldiers, was transmitted to Boston, Supplement of the Boston Gazette of 19 Feb. 1770. where the townsmen emulously applauded the spirit of the Yorkers. The determination to keep clear of paying the Parliament's taxes spread into every social circle. One week three hundred wives of Boston, the next a hundred and ten more, with one hundred and twenty-six of the young