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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., The crisis (search)
. Otis was still the most influential Member of the House; had long been held in great esteem throughout the province; had been its Delegate to the New-York Congress; and had executed that trust to universal acceptance. John Adams: Diary, 203. Though irritable, he was also placable, and at heart was truly loyal. Bernard ostentatiously Chap. XXV.} 1766. May. negatived the choice. The negative, as unwise as it was unusual, excited in the whole colony Compare Boston Gazette, 17 6 November, 1766; 607, 1, 1. undefined apprehensions of danger; but the House, deferring to legal right, acquiesced without complaint, and substituted as its Speaker the respectable but irresolute Thomas Cushing. In the afternoon of the same day, at the choice of the Council, the four Judges of the Supreme Court, of whom Hutchinson was the Chief, the King's Attorney, and Oliver, the Secretary and late Stamp-master, all Members of the last year's Board, were not reelected; for, said Samuel Adams, upon