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e unprecedented in its character and unreasonable in its amount; yet in the exercise of the right of free deliberation, every thing asked for was voted, except Chap. XXV.} 1766. June. such articles as were not provided in Europe for British troops which were in barracks. The General and the Governor united in accepting the grant; but in reporting the affair, the wellmeaning, indolent Moore reflected the opinions of the army, whose officers still compared the Americans to the rebels of Scotland, and wished them a defeat like that of Culloden. Leake's Life of John Lamb. My message, said he at the end of his narrative, is treated merely as a Requisition made here; and they have carefully avoided the least mention of the Act on which it is founded. It is my opinion, that every Act of Parliament, when not backed by a sufficient power to enforce it, will meet with the same fate. Gov. Moore to Conway, 20 June, 1766. From Boston, Bernard, without any good reason, chimed in wit
e Chap. XXXI.} 1768. Jan. Minister a sense of shame. It was this use of the new revenue which the reflecting people in Boston particularly abhorred. We shall be obliged, said they, to maintain in luxury sycophants, court parasites and hungry dependents, who will be sent over to watch and oppress those who support them. Andrew Eliot to T. Hollis, 10 Dec. 1767; and compare A. Eliot to Archdeacon Blackburne, 15 Dec. 1767. If large salaries are given, needy poor lawyers from England and Scotland, or some tools of power of our own, will be placed on the bench. The Governors will be men rewarded for despicable services, hackneyed in deceit and avarice; or some noble scoundrel who has spent his fortune in every kind of debauchery. Unreasonable impositions tend to alienate the hearts of the Colonists. Our growth is so great, in a few years Britain will not be able to compel our submission. Who thought that the four little Provinces of Holland would have been able to throw off the
36: The towns of Massachusetts meet in Convention.— Hillsborough's Administration of the Colonies con-tinued. September—1768. The approach of military rule convinced Samuel Chap. XXXVI.} 1768. Sept. Adams of the necessity of American Independence. From this moment, S. Adams's own statement to a friend in 1775. Ms. he struggled for it deliberately and unremittingly as became one who delighted in the stern creed of Calvin, which, wherever it has prevailed, in Geneva, Holland, Scotland, Puritan England, New England, has spread intelligence, severity of morals, love of freedom, and courage. He gave himself to his glorious work, as devotedly as though he had in his keeping the liberties of mankind, and was a chosen instrument for fulfilling what had been decreed by the Divine counsels from all eternity. Such a cause left no room for fear. He was, said Bernard, one of the principal and most desperate of the chiefs of the faction; the all in all Instar omnium; the phrase
e Middle- Chap. XLII.} 1770. Jan. sex election, but contended, that whether they were right or wrong, the jurisdiction in the case belonged to them and from their decision there was no appeal. I distrust, rejoined Chatham, the refinements of learning, which fall to the share of so small a number of men. Providence has taken better care of our happiness, and given us in the simplicity of Common Sense a rule for our direction by which we shall never be misled. The words were revolutionary; Scotland, in unconscious harmony with Kant and the ablest minds in Germany, was renovating philosophy by the aid of Common Sense and Reason; Chatham transplanted the theory, so favorable to democracy, into the Halls of legislation. Power without right, he continued, aiming his invective at the venal House of Commons, is a thing hateful in itself and ever inclining to its fall. Tyranny is detestable in every shape; but in none so formidable, as when it is assumed and exercised by a number of tyrant
te of vassalage, the conclusion is, that it was their sense, that we were thus independent. But it is impossible, the Governor had insisted, that there should be two independent Legislatures in one and the same State. Then, replied the House, the Colonies were by their Charters, made distinct States from the Mother Country. Although there may be but one head, the King, Hutchinson had said, yet the two legislative bodies will make two governments as distinct as the kingdoms of England and Scotland before the union. Very true, may it please your Excellency, replied the House; and if they interfere not with each other, what hinders but that, being united in one Chap. XLIX.} 1773. Jan. head and Sovereign, they may live happily in that connection, and mutually support and protect each other? But is there any thing, the Governor had asked, which we have more reason to dread than Independence? And the House answered, There is more reason to dread the consequences of absolute uncontr