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England (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 21
its resentment, distracted its councils, and palsied its will. It had now no choice left but between submission and independence. The number and weight of the minority should have led the ministers to pause; but they rushed on with headlong indiscretion, thinking not to involve the empire in civil war, but to subdue the Americans by fear. The first step towards inspiring terror was, to declare Massachusetts in a state of rebellion, and to pledge the parliament and the whole force of Great Britain to its reduction; the next, by prohibiting the American fisheries, to starve New England; the next, to call out the savages on the rear of the colonies; the next, to excite a servile insurrection. Accordingly, Lord North on the day after Chatham's defeat, proposed to the commons a joint address to the king to declare that a rebellion existed in Massachusetts, and to pledge their lives and properties to its suppression. The colonies are not in a state of rebellion, Chap XX.} 1775. Fe
Pittsburg Landing (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 21
o its suppression. The colonies are not in a state of rebellion, Chap XX.} 1775. Feb. said Dunning; but resisting the attempt to establish despotism in America, as a prelude to the same system in the mother country. Opposition to arbitrary measures is warranted by the constitution, and established by precedent. Nothing but the display of vigor, said Thurlow, will prevent the American colonies becoming independent states. Grant, the same officer, who had been scandalously beaten at Pittsburg, and had made himself so offensive in South Carolina, asserted amidst the loudest cheering, that he knew the Americans very well, and was certain they would not fight; that they were not soldiers and never could be made so, being naturally pusillanimous and incapable of discipline; that a very slight force would be more than sufficient for their complete reduction; and he fortified his statement by repeating their peculiar expressions, and ridiculing their religious enthusiasm, manners, an
New England (United States) (search for this): chapter 21
but between submission and independence. The number and weight of the minority should have led the ministers to pause; but they rushed on with headlong indiscretion, thinking not to involve the empire in civil war, but to subdue the Americans by fear. The first step towards inspiring terror was, to declare Massachusetts in a state of rebellion, and to pledge the parliament and the whole force of Great Britain to its reduction; the next, by prohibiting the American fisheries, to starve New England; the next, to call out the savages on the rear of the colonies; the next, to excite a servile insurrection. Accordingly, Lord North on the day after Chatham's defeat, proposed to the commons a joint address to the king to declare that a rebellion existed in Massachusetts, and to pledge their lives and properties to its suppression. The colonies are not in a state of rebellion, Chap XX.} 1775. Feb. said Dunning; but resisting the attempt to establish despotism in America, as a prelude
Bristol (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 21
and two frigates were under orders for America, and it was ostentatiously heralded that seven hundred marines from England, and three regiments of infantry with one of light horse from Ireland, making a reinforcement of two thousand four hundred and eighteen men, were to be prepared for embarkation; less to act hostilely against the Americans, than to encourage the friends of government. In the house of commons, the various petitions in behalf of America, including those from London and Bristol, were consigned to a committee of oblivion, and ridiculed as already dead in law. Hayley, of London, rebuked the levity of the house. The rejection of the petitions of the trading interests, said he, on the twenty-sixth of January, must drive on a civil war with America. The Americans, argued Chap. XX.} 1775. Jan. Jenkinson, ought to submit to every act of the English legislature. England, said Burke, is like the archer that saw his own child in the hands of the adversary, against who
New Hampshire (New Hampshire, United States) (search for this): chapter 21
falsehoods; and Shelburne in a rejoinder gave the illustrious Chap. XX.} 1775. Feb. 9. jurist the lie. On Thursday, the ninth day of February, the lord chancellor, the speaker, and a majority of the lords and commons went in state to the palace, and in the presence of the representatives of the great powers of Europe, presented to George the Third the sanguinary address which the two houses of parliament had jointly adopted, and which, in the judgment of Rockingham and his friends, amounted to a declaration of war. The king, in his reply, pledged himself speedily and effectually to enforce obedience to the laws and the authority of the supreme legislature. His heart was hardened. Having just heard of the seizure of ammunition at the fort in New Hampshire, he intended that his language should open the eyes of the deluded Americans. If it does not, said he to his faltering minister, it must set every delicate man at liberty to avow the propriety of the most coercive measures.
South Carolina (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 21
ate of rebellion, Chap XX.} 1775. Feb. said Dunning; but resisting the attempt to establish despotism in America, as a prelude to the same system in the mother country. Opposition to arbitrary measures is warranted by the constitution, and established by precedent. Nothing but the display of vigor, said Thurlow, will prevent the American colonies becoming independent states. Grant, the same officer, who had been scandalously beaten at Pittsburg, and had made himself so offensive in South Carolina, asserted amidst the loudest cheering, that he knew the Americans very well, and was certain they would not fight; that they were not soldiers and never could be made so, being naturally pusillanimous and incapable of discipline; that a very slight force would be more than sufficient for their complete reduction; and he fortified his statement by repeating their peculiar expressions, and ridiculing their religious enthusiasm, manners, and ways of living, greatly to the entertainment of t
Sandwich (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 21
ition of the supremacy of parliament. Let us take care, said he, lest, instead of a thorn in the foot, we have a dagger in the heart. No sooner had Chatham concisely invited the assistance of the house in adapting his crude materials to the great end of an honorable and permanent adjustment, than Dartmouth spoke of the magnitude of the subject, and asked his consent that the bill should lie on the table for consideration. I expect nothing more, was the ready answer. At this concession Sandwich, speaking for the majority in the cabinet, grew petulant. The proposed measure, he said, deserves only contempt, and ought to be immediately rejected. I can never believe it to be the production of any British peer. It appears to me rather the work of some American; and turning his face towards Franklin, who stood leaning on the bar, I fancy, he continued, I have in my eye the person who drew it up, one of the bitterest and most mischievous enemies this country has ever known. The pee
Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 21
Chapter 20: Parliament Declares Massachusetts in rebellion. January 23—February 9, 1775. the confidence of the ministry reposed more and Chap. XX.} 1775. Jan. more on the central provinto Vergennes, or lose America forever. Your chief dependence, such were Franklin's words to Massachusetts, must be on your own virtue and unanimity, which, under God, will bring you through all diffut to subdue the Americans by fear. The first step towards inspiring terror was, to declare Massachusetts in a state of rebellion, and to pledge the parliament and the whole force of Great Britain t, proposed to the commons a joint address to the king to declare that a rebellion existed in Massachusetts, and to pledge their lives and properties to its suppression. The colonies are not in a snd, praised the Boston port act and its attendant measures, including the regulating act for Massachusetts, as worthy to be gloried in for their wisdom, policy, and equity; but he denied that they we
Massachusetts Bay (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 21
jority, refused even to receive Franklin's petition. The ministry were self-willed and strangely confident. The demand of Gage for twenty thousand men was put aside with scorn. The violences committed by those who have taken up arms in Massachusetts Bay, wrote Dartmouth, in the king's name, have appeared to me as the acts of a rude rabble, without plan, without concert, and without conduct; and therefore I think that a smaller force now, if put to the test, would be able to encounter them. that any efforts of the people, unprepared to encounter with a regular force, cannot be very formidable. The imprisonment of those who shall be made prisoners will prevent their doing any further mischief. The charter for the province of Massachusetts Bay empowers the governor to use and exercise the law martial in time of rebellion. The attorney and solicitor-general report that the facts stated in the papers you have transmitted, are the history of an actual and open rebellion in that pro
Wedderburn (Oregon, United States) (search for this): chapter 21
h of an hour and twenty minutes, entered into the history of the dispute with great force and temper, and stated truly, that the reason why the colonies objected to taxes for revenue was, that such revenue in the hands of government took out of the hands of the people that were to be governed, that control which every Englishman thinks he ought to have over the government to which his rights and interests are intrusted. The defence of Chap. XX.} 1775. Feb. the ministry rested chiefly on Wedderburn. Gibbon had prepared himself to speak, but neither he nor Lord George Germain could find room for a single word. Lord North again shrunk from measures against which his nature revolted; and Franklin, whose mediation was once more solicited, received a paper containing the results of ministerial conferences on the hints which he had written. We desire nothing but what is necessary to our security and well-being, said Franklin to the friendly agents who came to him. In reply they declar
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