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York, Pa. (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 20
tter or thing subversive of the internal policy, civil government, or sovereignty of this or any other of the United American States, or unwarranted by the articles of confederation. Congress, on mature consideration, declined the discussion of the remonstrance. To counterbalance the sturdy resistance of Virginia, 1780. the legislature of New York took the field. They founded claims to western territory on the discoveries of the Dutch; on the grant from Charles the Second to the Duke of York; on the capitulation of the Dutch; on the acquisition of the rights of the Five Nations and their tributaries as the native proprietors. Desirous to accelerate the federal alliance, on the nineteenth of April, 1780, they authorized con- April 19. gress to restrict their boundaries on the west. This Chap. XIX.} 1780. is the first important act of the states in surrendering public lands to the federal union. At the opening of the year 1780, congress found itself utterly helpless, and th
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 20
revolution take place, it will weaken the United States, which have not now and never will have rey and government of any one or more of the United States; and establish in congress a power which, hs were to be subject to the order of the United States, and to be duly Chap. XIX.} 1780. credites. Thus began the deposit of funds of the United States with a bank. Throughout the war, the wohat the important national concerns of the United States be under the superintendency and direction of ripe wisdom to Vergennes. While the United States thus importuned a foreign prince for help,ion and perpetual union. A new era of the United States assembled in congress was begun. It is t finds it an illusion. The people of the United States thought that they had established a governy attribute not expressly delegated to the United States in congress assembled; and, by the denial h humiliation and sorrow. But, while the United States Chap. XIX.} 1781. May. were slowly sound[10 more...]
France (France) (search for this): chapter 20
the treaties of alliance and commerce between France and the United States; and the governor had, ustate shall ratify the treaties concluded with France; because in this way every state will be founds ended, both Maryland and Virginia applied to France for assistance, which the latter received. es. When it became certain that troops from France were on their way to assist the country, congrthe conviction that the country must depend on France for aid in money. It is now four days, wrote werlessness, nothing remained but to appeal to France for rescue not from a foreign enemy, but from consequent on its own want of government. If France lends not a speedy aid, wrote Greene from the he army, to set them before the government of France in the most striking light. Hamilton, Chap. 1781. the United States, who so excel that of France in liberty, doomed to hopeless inferiority in estriction to the treaties already proposed to France and Spain. No power to prohibit the slave-tra[1 more...]
New York State (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 20
once more Nov. 4. distributed among the several states a tax of six millions of silver dollars, to be paid partly in specific articles. But in truth everybody came to the conviction that the country must depend on France for aid in money. It is now four days, wrote Glover to Massachusetts on the eleventh of December, Dec. 11. since your line of the army has eaten one mouthful of bread. We have no money; nor will anybody trust us. The best of wheat is at this moment selling in the state of New York for three-fourths of a dollar per bushel, and your army is starving for want. On the first of January something will turn up, if not speedily prevented, which your officers cannot be answerable for. When congress in September, 1776, had transferred the enlistment of troops to the states, the new recruits were to bind themselves to serve for the war; but in some cases the enlistment was made for three years or for the war; and three years had passed since that time. In the night of
New Jersey (New Jersey, United States) (search for this): chapter 20
y. Without relief the worst, he said, that can befall us may be expected. I will continue to exert every means I am possessed of to prevent an extension of the mischief; but I can neither foretell nor be answerable for the issue. Troops of New Jersey, whose ranks next to the Pennsylvania line included the largest proportion of foreigners, showed signs of being influenced by the bad example; but Washington interposed. The troops of New England, which had twenty regiments in the continental ct laws for general purposes, and till the executive business is placed in the hands of able and responsible men. Requisitions then will be supported by law. Congress began to be of the same opinion. On the fifth of February, Witherspoon of New Jersey, Feb. 5. seconded by Burke of North Carolina, proposed to vest in that body the power to regulate commerce, and to lay duties upon imported articles. The proposition was negatived, but it was resolved to be indispensably necessary for the sta
New York (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 20
too much reliance on a bank of the United States. The advice which Hamilton offered from his tent in the midst of an unpaid, half-fed, and half-clad army, was the more remarkable from the hopefulness which beamed through his words. No doubt crossed his mind, or, indeed, that of any of his countrymen, that a republic of united states could be formed over a widely extended territory. Two days later, Washington, with Duane at his side, gazed from Weehawken heights on the half-ruined city of New York in her bondage. He may not have fully foreseen how the wealth and commercial representatives of all the nations of the world would be gathered on that island and the neighboring shores; but he, too, never doubted of the coming prosperity and greatness of his country. Congress toiled as before, and, if for the moment it toiled in vain, it secured the future. It urged on the states a liberal surrender of their territorial claims in the west, to accelerate the federal alliance and lea
South Carolina (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 20
nding emissions was but a little short of one hundred and sixty millions, limited paper money to two hundred mil- Chap. XIX.} 1779. Oct. lions; and the limit was reached before the end of the year. In October, it appointed Henry Laurens of South Carolina to negotiate a loan of ten millions in the Netherlands. In November, it further resolved Nov. to draw upon him for one hundred thousand pounds sterling; and to draw on Jay at Madrid, for as much more. The two were instructed mutually to suasing distresses of the army, to set them before the government of France in the most striking light. Hamilton, Chap. XIX.} 1781. Jan. the fittest man for the office, was not known to congress; and its choice fell on the younger Laurens of South Carolina. To the agent Washington confided a statement of the condition of the country; and with dignity and candor avowed that it had reached a crisis out of which it could not rise by its own unassisted strength. Without an immediate, ample, and
Staten Island (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 20
s, and hutted at Morristown, revolted, and, under the lead of their non-commissioned officers, marched with six fieldpieces to Princeton. The want of clothes in winter, of pay for nearly a year, the not infrequent want of food, the compulsion imposed upon some of them to Chap. XIX.} 1781. Jan. remain in service beyond the three years for which they believed they had engaged, were extremities which they would no longer endure. Informed of the mutiny, Sir Henry Clinton passed over to Staten Island with a body of troops for its support; but two emissaries whom he sent to them with tempting offers were given up by the mutineers, and after trial were hanged as spies. Reed, the president of Pennsylvania, repaired to the spot, though it was beyond his jurisdiction; and without authority, and without due examination of each case, he discharged those who professed to have served out their specified term, while measures were taken by the state of Pennsylvania to clothe and pay the rest.
Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 20
arcely purchase a wagon-load of provisions. The Pennsylvania farmers were unwilling to sell their May. wheattaxes collected for the continental treasury. Pennsylvania was the first state that had the opportunity to ington appealed to the president of the rich state of Pennsylvania, which, except for a few months in 1777 and t man, wrote Greene secretly to the president of Pennsylvania, is confounded at his situation, but appears to he amiable Esther Reed, wife of the president of Pennsylvania, now made a more earnest effort: they brought toirst of January, 1781. Jan. 1781, a part of the Pennsylvania line, composed in a large degree of Irish immigral were hanged as spies. Reed, the president of Pennsylvania, repaired to the spot, though it was beyond his ified term, while measures were taken by the state of Pennsylvania to clothe and pay the rest. They, for the m Troops of New Jersey, whose ranks next to the Pennsylvania line included the largest proportion of foreigne
Madrid (Spain) (search for this): chapter 20
, congress having Sept. 2. ascertained that the sum of outstanding emissions was but a little short of one hundred and sixty millions, limited paper money to two hundred mil- Chap. XIX.} 1779. Oct. lions; and the limit was reached before the end of the year. In October, it appointed Henry Laurens of South Carolina to negotiate a loan of ten millions in the Netherlands. In November, it further resolved Nov. to draw upon him for one hundred thousand pounds sterling; and to draw on Jay at Madrid, for as much more. The two were instructed mutually to support each other; but neither of them had any resources. The king of Spain was the most determined foe to the independence of the United States; and the United Provinces had not yet acknowledged their existence. In the midst of these financial straits, the year came to an end; and a paper dollar, which in January had been worth twelve and a half cents, was in December worth less than two and a half cents. The legislature of Virgi
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