hide Matching Documents

Browsing named entities in George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition.. You can also browse the collection for February 3rd or search for February 3rd in all documents.

Your search returned 2 results in 2 document sections:

George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 15: (search)
nd parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily get rid of the latter. This is not what Franklin wrote. To bear with kings and parliaments and to get rid of kings and parliaments, are very different things. Franklin was long-suffering, and waited some years yet before he advised to get rid of kings. He himself printed a part of this letter, but with amplifications, in the London Chronicle of Nov. 14 to 16, 1765, from which it was copied into Weyman's New-York Gazette of Feb. 3, and other papers. In all of them, as well as in the letter itself, the words are, bear the atter, and not, get rid of the latter. admitted no hope of success. An order in council Report of the Lords in Council, 26 July, 1765., sanctioned by the name, and apparently, by the advice of Lord Dartmouth—perhaps the worst order ever proposed by the Board of Trade, so bad that it was explained away by the crown lawyers as impossible to have been intended—permitted appeals to the privy council
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 22: (search)
Chapter 22: Parliament Affirms its right to tax America—Rocking-Ham's administration continued. The Third of February, 1766. it was the third day of February, when the Duke of chap. XXII.} 1766. Feb. Grafton himself offered in the House of Lords the resolution, which was in direct contradiction to his wishes. At the same time he recommended lenient measures. Shelburne proposed to repeal the Stamp Act, and avoid a decision on the question of right. If you exempt the American colonies from one statute or law, said Lyttelton, you make them independent communities. If opinions of this weight are to be taken up and argued upon through mistake or timidity, we shall have Lycurguses and Solons in every coffee house, tavern, and gin shop in London. Many thousands in England who have no vote in electing representatives will follow their brethren in America in refusing submission to any taxes. The Commons will with pleasure hear the doctrine of equality being the natural ri