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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 51: (search)
Oct. by, because it sanctifies coercive measures. America must be conquered, and the present rebellion must be crushed, ere the dispute will be ended. The commons unhesitatingly confirmed their vote of the previous night. Among the lords, Shelburne insisted that the petition of the congress furnished the fairest foundation for an honorable and advantageous accommodation; and he bore his testimony to the sincerity of Franklin as one whom he had long and intimately known, and had ever found, and to the unanimity of support which they received from the people. Under the most favorable auspices the duke of Richmond proposed to accept the petition from that congress to the king as a ground for conciliation; he was ably supported by Shelburne; but his motion, like every similar motion in either house, was negatived by a majority of about two to one. On the same day, the definitive ministerial changes, which were to give a character to the whole war, were completed. Rochford reti
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 61: (search)
perience has but too well proved, that they regard as just and honorable whatever is advantageous to their own nation or destructive to their rivals. Their statesmen never calculate the actual amount of ill which France does them, but the amount of ill which she may one day be able to do them. The opposition seem to have embraced the same general maxims; and the ministry may seize the only way of extricating themselves from their embarrassment by giving up the reins to Chatham, who, with Shelburne, Sandwich, Richmond, and Weymouth, may come to terms with the Americans, and employ the enormous mass of forces put in activity, to rectify the conditions of the last treaty of peace, against which they have ever passionately protested. Englishmen of all parties are persuaded that a popular war against France or an invasion of Mexico would terminate, or at least allay, their domestic dissensions, as well as furnish resources for the extin- Chap. LXI.} 1776. Mar. guishment of their natio