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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition. 34 0 Browse Search
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Chapter XXII: Operations in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Mississippi, North Alabama, and Southwest Virginia. March 4-June 10, 1862. (ed. Lieut. Col. Robert N. Scott) 33 5 Browse Search
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874. 32 0 Browse Search
James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 32 4 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition. 30 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore) 30 0 Browse Search
Colonel Charles E. Hooker, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.2, Mississippi (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 27 5 Browse Search
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters 26 0 Browse Search
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1 22 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 17 3 Browse Search
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the late Samuel Adams Welles, that it was not so; and this may offset any opposite tradition. John Adams says the system of Committees of Correspondence was the invention of Samuel Adams: so Hutchins the late Samuel Adams Welles, that t was not so; and this may offset any opposite tradition. John Adams says the system of Committees of Correspondence was the invention of Samuel Adams: so Hutchinsbers were Samuel Adams and Joseph Warren, the first now recognised as a masterly Statesman, John Adams: Works, IV. 84. and the ablest political writer in New England; the second, a rare combinationy and action; differing only in this, that while Warren still clung to the hope of conciliation, Adams ardently desired, as well as clearly foresaw, the conflict for Independence. On the third of . A Member of Parliament, That it was understood to be a Member of Parliament, appears from John Adams, who cites Franklin as his authority. Such certainly was the opinion of Hutchinson. A Member
clearness, affirms that Parliamentary taxation is unconstitutional, because imposed without consent; again Samuel Adams for the House, aided briefly, in Hawley's temporary absence, by the strong natural powers and good knowledge of the laws of John Adams, proves from the Governor's own premises, that Parliament has no supremacy over the Colony, because the feudal system admits no idea of the authority of Parliament. At the same time both parties looked beyond the Province for aid. Hutchinsonnt over to the Speaker of the Massachusetts Assembly, destroyed their moral power by Chap. XLIX.} 1773. June. exposing their duplicity. Cool, thinking, deliberate villains; malicious and vindictive, as well as ambitious and avaricious, said John Adams, who this year was chosen into the Council but negatived by the governor. Bone of our bone; flesh of our flesh; born and educated among us, cried others. Hancock, who was angry at being named in the correspondence, determined to lay bare thei
te of our affairs require it, we shall be ready to sacrifice our estates and every thing dear in life, yea, and life itself, in support of the common cause. Original Papers, 495.—Whole towns in Worcester County were on tiptoe to come down. J. Adams: Works, IX. 835. Go on, as you have begun, wrote the Committee of Leicester on the fourteenth; and do not suffer any of the teas already come or coming to be landed, or pay one farthing of duty. You may depend on our aid and assistance when neendred and forty chests of tea, being the whole quantity that had been imported, were emptied into the bay without the least injury to other property. All things were conducted with great order, decency, and perfect submission to government. John Adams to James Warren, 17 Dec. 1773. The people around, as they looked on, were so still, that the noise of breaking open the tea-chests Hugh Williamson's Deposition. was plainly heard. A delay of a few hours would have placed the tea under the p
istered their own affairs by means of permanent Committees. The people of Massachusetts knew that they had March passed the river and cut away the bridge. J. Adams, IX. 333. Voting the Judges of the Superior Court ample salaries from the colonial treasury, they called upon them to refuse the corrupting donative from the Cro writer, the most sagacious politician, and celebrated patriot, perhaps of any who have figured in the last ten years, From the minute in the handwriting of John Adams, dated 29 April, 1774. Chap. LII.} 1774. April. is the contemporary record of John Adams. I cannot sufficiently respect his integrity and abilities, said ClyJohn Adams. I cannot sufficiently respect his integrity and abilities, said Clymer of Pennsylvania; all good Americans should erect a statue to him in their hearts. Clymer to Quincy, 1774. Time proved that he had been right, even where his conduct had been questioned; and many in England esteemed him the first politician in the world. Quincy's Quincy, 258. He saw clearly that the rigorous measures of t