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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition. 1 1 Browse Search
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ms are found in their houses. It is not the language of British subjects to talk of terms with the crown, or capitulate about their fidelity and allegiance. What excuse can you make for your presumption in treating this government with such indignity, as to expound to them the nature of fidelity? Manifest your obedience, by immediately taking the oaths of allegiance in the common form before the council. Record of a council holden at the Governor's House in Halifax, on Thursday the 3d July, 1755. It has been supposed, that these records of the council are no longer in existence. But I have authentic copies of them. The deputies replied that they would do as the generality of the inhabitants should determine; and chap. VIII.} 1755. they merely entreated leave to return home and consult the body of their people. The next day, the unhappy men, foreseeing the sorrows that menaced them, offered to swear allegiance unconditionally; but they were told that by a clause in a B