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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Colonial history. (search)
t acquired the political knowledge that time alone could gather for the use of later generations. Charles I., conspiring against the national constitu- 1629 to 1640. tion, which he, as the most favored among the natives of England, was the most solemnly bound to protect, had resolved to govern without the aid of a parliament. To convene a parliament was, therefore, in itself, an acknowledgment of defeat. The house of commons, 1640. April 6. April which assembled in April, 1640, was filled with men not less loyal to the monarch than faithful to the people; yet the king, who had neither the resignation of wise resolution, nor yet the daring of despairof popular liberty; the subversion of the royal authority made a way for the despotism of parliament. The Long Parliament was not originally homoge- Chap. XI.} 1640. Nov. 3. neous. The usurpations of the monarch threatened the privileges of the nobility not less than the liberties of the people. The movement in the public mi
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 14: (search)
r government. In its care for a regular succession of representative assemblies, Virginia exceeded the jealous friends of republican liberty in England; there triennial parliaments had been established by law; the Virginians, imitating the terms of the bill, claimed the privilege of a biennial election of their legislators. Hening, i. 517. The bill is modelled after the act for preventing inconveniences happening by the long intermission of parliament, passed by the commons of England in 1640. In addition to the strength derived from the natural character of the emigrants, from the absence of feudal institutions, from the entire absence of the excessive refinements of legal erudition, and from the constitution, legislation, and elective franchises of the colonists, a new and undefined increase was gained by the universal prevalence of the spirit of personal independence. An instinctive aversion to too much government was always a trait of southern character, expressed in the soli
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 15: (search)
elaware from the ocean to the falls were known as New Sweden. The few English families within its limits, emigrants from New England, Hazard, II. 213. allured 1640. by the beauty of the climate and the opportunity of Indian traffic, were either driven from the soil, or submitted to Swedish jurisdiction. Compare, on the whongry and even bloody quarrels had sometimes arisen between dishonest traders and savages maddened by intoxication. The blameless settlement on Staten Island had, 1640. in consequence, been ruined by the blind vengeance of the tribes of New Jersey. The strife continued. A boy who had been present when, years before, his uncle hay. Having the licentiousness not less than the courage of the soldiers of that age, he had been compelled, at Boston, in a great assembly, on lecture-day, during 1640. the session of the General Court, dressed in the ruthful habit of a penitent, to stand upon a platform, and with sighs and tears, and brokenness of heart, and the