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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition., Chapter 15: (search)
ffect; but one of those who had escaped, murdered an Indian at a horse race on the frontier, notwithstanding the interposition of all around. This was the first Indian blood shed by a white man from the time of the treaty of Bouquet. In the beginning of February, 1774, the Indians killed six white men and two negroes; and near the end of the same month, they seized a trading canoe on the Ohio, killed the men on board, and carried Chap. XV.} 1774. their goods to the Shawanese towns. In March, Michael Cresap, after a skirmish, and the loss of one man on each side, took from a party of Indians five loaded canoes. It became known that messages were passing between the tribes of the Ohio, the western Indians, and the Cherokees. In this state of affairs, Conolly, from Pittsburg, on the twenty-first of April, wrote to the inhabitants of Wheeling to be on the alert. Incensed by the succession of murders, the backwoodsmen, who were hunters like the Indians and equally ungovernable,
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition., Chapter 23: (search)
d towards Danvers; but at the river, he found the bridge drawn up, and was kept waiting for an hour and a half, whilst the stores, insignificant in amount, were removed to a place of safety. Then having pledged his honor not to advance more than thirty yardson the other side, he was allowed to march his troops across the bridge. The alarm spread through the neighborhood; but Leslie hastily retraced his steps, and re-embarked at Marblehead. At this time the British ministry received news Mar. of the vote in the New York assembly, refusing to consider the resolutions of congress. The confidence of the king reached its climax; and he spared no pains to win the colony. In an ostensible letter from the secretary of state, New York was praised for its attempts towards a reconciliation with the mother country; in a private letter, Dartmouth enjoined upon Colden to exert his address to facilitate the acceptance of Lord North's conciliatory resolution. The same directions were sent to
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition., Chapter 24: (search)
fe between the citizens and sol- Chap. XXIV.} 1775. Mar. diers at Boston, Lord Howe at London broke off negotf the lame, the blind, the sick, Chap. XXIV.} 1775. Mar. and the sorrowful. He could breathe a sigh of tendeed, that they were condemned un- Chap. XXIV.} 1775. Mar. heard, he asserted, there is no need of a trial; no mericans were increasing in num- Chap. XXIV.} 1775. Mar. bers, wealth, and love of freedom; This talk, said he so despotic as the republican; Chap. XXIV.} 1775. Mar. no subjects are governed in so arbitrary a manner asouse of lords, Camden, on the sixteenth Mar. 16. of March, took the occasion of the motion to commit the bill precedent cheered Franklin as a Chap. XXIV.} 1775. Mar. prediction. But then, subjoined Garnier, they have embarked for Philadelphia. What Chap. XXIV.} 1775. Mar. tidings were to greet his landing He has left witplayed by him in his intercourse Chap. XXIV.} 1775. Mar. with the British government has, in its way, never b
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition., Chapter 25: (search)
ed, and was recognised as a proof of their generous and affectionate interest, and their patriotic endeavors to fix the just claims of the colonists upon permanent constitutional principles; and the convention of the Old Dominion Chap XXV.} 1775 Mar. renewed their assurances, that it was the most ardent wish of their colony and of the whole continent of North America, to see a speedy return of those halcyon days when they lived a free and happy people. To Patrick Henry this language seemed o measures of despair when every well-founded hope has vanished. What, rejoined Henry, has there been in the conduct of the British ministry for the last ten years to justify hope? Are fleets and armies necessary to a Chap. XXV.} 1775. Mar. work of love and reconciliation? These are the implements of subjugation, sent over to rivet upon us the chains which the British ministry have been so long forging. And what have we to oppose to them? Shall we try argument? We have been tryin