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James Grant (search for this): chapter 18
neers of Carolina, General Amherst, early in 1761, sent a regiment and two companies of light infantry, under Lieutenant-Colonel James Grant, the same who, in 1758, had been shamefully beaten near Pittsburg. The province added to the regular forces ne, where the Cherokee fire seemed heaviest; but Middleton sent opportune relief, which secured the baggage. Happily for Grant, the Cherokees were in great need of ammunition. Of the white men, ten were killed and forty badly wounded; to save the Gadsden and Middleton, Moultrie and Marion, were trained to arms. At Pittsburg, the Virginians, as all agreed, had saved Grant from utter ruin; the Carolinians believed his return from their western country was due to provincial courage. The Scott arrogance with scorn, Middleton challenged his superior officer, and they met. The challenge was generally censured; for Grant had come to defend their frontiers; but all the province took part in the indignant excitement, and its longcherished aff
Bradford (search for this): chapter 18
whole continent. We have such an idea of the general corruption, said Ezra Stiles, a dissenting minister in Rhode Island, we know not how to confide in any person below the crown. Ezra Stiles to Franklin, Dec., 1761. You adore the Oliverian times, said Bernard to Mayhew, at Boston. I adore Him alone who is before all times, answered Mayhew, and at the same time avowed his zeal for the principles of the glorious Revolution of 1688, especially for the freedom of speech and of writing. Bradford's Life of Jonathan Mayhew, 222. Already he was known among royalists as an enemy to kings. The alarm rose every where to an extreme height, and every question of authority in church and state chap. XVIII.} 1762. was debated. The old Puritan strife with prelacy was renewed; and Presbyterians and Congregationalists were jealous of the favor shown by the royal governors to the established church. In New York the college was under Episcopal direction; as New England's Cambridge was in th
Henry Laurens (search for this): chapter 18
dered brothers still call on us to avenge them; he that will not take up this hatchet and follow me is no better than a woman. To reduce the native mountaineers of Carolina, General Amherst, early in 1761, sent a regiment and two companies of light infantry, under Lieutenant-Colonel James Grant, the same who, in 1758, had been shamefully beaten near Pittsburg. The province added to the regular forces a regiment of its own, under the command of Henry Middleton, who counted among his officers Henry Laurens, William Moultrie, Virginia Gazette, 554, 2, 2. and Francis Marion. At Fort Prince George, Attakulla-kulla met the expedition, entreating delay for a conference. But on the seventh day of June, the army, which was formed of about thirteen hundred regulars, and as many more of the men of Carolina, pursued their march, followed by about seven hundred pack-horses, and more than four hundred cattle. A party of Chickasaws and Catawbas attended as allies. On the eighth, they march
Choiseul (search for this): chapter 18
speaker's chair for a sinecure, and, remaining in the ministry, still agreed to do his best in the House; while Bedford became Lord Privy Seal. Peace was an immediate object of the king; and as the letters of Bristol, the English minister at Madrid, promised friendly relations with Spain, the king chap. XVIII.} 1761. directed, that, through Fuentes, the Spanish ambassador at London, the French court should be invited to renew its last propositions. It is only with a second Pitt, said Choiseul, that I should dare to treat on such offers. War is the only part to be chosen. Firmness and patience will not build ships for us; but they will give us a triumph over our enemies. As the weeks rolled on, and the Spanish treasure ships arrived, Spain used bolder language, and before the year was over, a rupture with that power was unavoidable. Yet peace was still sought with perseverance; for it was the abiding purpose of the young sovereign to assert and maintain the royal authority
Bull (search for this): chapter 18
his investment with full authority from all. As to what has happened, he added, I believe it has been ordered by our Great Father above. We are of different color from the white people; but the same Great Spirit made all. As we live in one land, let us love one another as one people. And the Cherokees pledged anew to Carolina the friendship, which was to last as long as the light of morning should break above their villages, or the bright fountains gush from their hill-sides. Lieut. Gov, Bull to the Lords of Trade, 23 Sept., 1761. Terms of Peace for the Cherokees, in the Lords of Trade, of 11 Dec., 1761. Then they returned to dwell once more in their ancient homes. Around them nature, with the tranquillity of exhaustless power, renewed her beauty; the forests blossomed as before; the thickets were alive with melody; the rivers bounded exultingly in their course; the glades sparkled with the strawberry and the wild chap. XVIII.} 1761. flowers; but for the men of that region the
William Pitt (search for this): chapter 18
ho of the chap. XVIII.} 1761. opinions of the king, approved the resignation of Pitt, as important and fortunate; Dodington, now raised to the peerage as the ostentahe saw that his own situation was become more perilous. The Earl of Egremont, Pitt's successor, was a son of the illustrious Windham, of a Tory family, himself botourt should be invited to renew its last propositions. It is only with a second Pitt, said Choiseul, that I should dare to treat on such offers. War is the only parw York was aroused to opposition, because, as the first fruits of the removal of Pitt from power, within six weeks of his resignation, Representation of the Board ended by the English officials of that day; and in November, about a month after Pitt's retirement, the Board of Trade reported to the king against the tenure of goodr of patriotism!—the historian, William Smith. The news of the resignation of Pitt, who was almost idolized in America, heightened the rising jealousy and extended
Oxenbridge Thacher (search for this): chapter 18
he Third extends to the revenue officers in America like powers, and a right to like assistance, as in England. To refuse the writ is, then, to deny that the parliament of Great Britain is the sovereign legislator of the British empire. Oxenbridge Thacher, who first rose in reply, reasoned mildly, wisely, and with learning, showing that the rule of the English courts was in this case not applicable to America. But James Otis, a native of Barnstable, whose irritable nature was rocked by thenlightened and convinced, but her sentiments are just. Not from the intellect, Out of the heart, Rises the bright ideal of that dream. Longfellow's Spanish Student. The old members of the Superior Court, after hearing the arguments of Thacher and Otis, the friends to liberty, inclined to their side. But I, said the ambitious Hutchinson, who never grew weary of recalling to the British ministry this claim to favor, I prevailed with my brethren to continue the cause till the next term
William Smith (search for this): chapter 18
ducated in Connecticut, who have strongly imbibed the independent principles of that country, calumniate the administration in every exercise of the prerogative, and get the applause of the mob by propagating the doctrine, that all authority is derived from the people. These three popular lawyers were William Livingston, John Morin Scot, Rev. D. Johnson to the Archbishop of Canterbury. and—alas, that he should afterwards have turned aside from the career of patriotism!—the historian, William Smith. The news of the resignation of Pitt, who was almost idolized in America, heightened the rising jealousy and extended it through the whole continent. We have such an idea of the general corruption, said Ezra Stiles, a dissenting minister in Rhode Island, we know not how to confide in any person below the crown. Ezra Stiles to Franklin, Dec., 1761. You adore the Oliverian times, said Bernard to Mayhew, at Boston. I adore Him alone who is before all times, answered Mayhew, and at t
Jeremiah Gridley (search for this): chapter 18
eer, stepped forward to demonstrate that all arbitrary authority was unconstitutional and against the law. In February, 1761, Hutchinson, the new chief justice, and his four associates, sat in the crowded councilchamber of the old Town-House in Boston, to hear arguments on the question, whether the persons employed in enforcing the Acts of Trade should have power to invoke generally the assistance of all the executive officers of the colony. A statute of Charles the Second, argued Jeremiah Gridley for the crown, allows writs of assistance to be issued by the English Court of Exchequer; a colo- chap. XVIII.} 1761. nial law devolves the power of that court on the Colonial Superior Court; and a statute of William the Third extends to the revenue officers in America like powers, and a right to like assistance, as in England. To refuse the writ is, then, to deny that the parliament of Great Britain is the sovereign legislator of the British empire. Oxenbridge Thacher, who first
Shelburne (search for this): chapter 18
and in the mean time wrote to England. The answer came; and the subservient court, obeying authority, and disregarding law, granted writs of assistance, whenever the officers chap. XVIII.} 1761. of the revenue applied for them. Bernard to Shelburne, 22 Dec., 1766. But Otis was borne onward by a spirit which mastered him, and increased in vigor as the storm rose. Gifted with a delicately sensitive and most sympathetic nature, his soul was agitated in the popular tempest as certainly a which by the revenue laws belonged to the king for the use of the province, but had been misappropriated for the benefit of officers and informers. Gov. Bernard to Lords of Trade, 6 August, 1761. Boston Gazette, 14 Sept., 1769. Bernard to Shelburne, 22 Dec., 1766. The injury done the province was admitted by the chief justice, who yet had no jurisdiction to redress it. The Court of Admiralty, in which the wrong originated, had always been deemed grievous, because unconstitutional; its aut
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