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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 36: (search)
ly; the Assembly of Massachusetts had been arbitrarily dissolved; and Bernard refused to issue writs for a new one; so that the legislative rights of the Colony were suspended. The Town therefore, following the precedent of 1688, proposed a Convention in Faneuil Hall. To this body they elected Cushing, Otis, Samuel Adams, and Hancock, a committee to represent them; and directed their Selectmen to inform the several towns of the Province of their design. Compare Edmund Burke's Speech, 8 Nov. 1768, in Cavendish, i. 39. Such an order to a Governor was an annihilation of the Assembly; and when the Assembly was dissolved, an usurped Assembly met. It was also voted by a very great majority that every one of the inhabitants should provide him- Chap XXXVI} 1768. Sept. self with fire-arms and ammunition; and this vote was grounded partly on the prevailing rumor of a war with France, but more on the precedent of the Revolution of King William and Queen Mary. A cordial letter was read fr
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 37: (search)
building, belonging to the Province; but its occupants had taken the opinion of the best lawyer, and kept them at bay. Bernard to Hillsborough, 18 Oct. 1768. Bernard next summoned all the acting justices to meet him, and renewed the General's demand for quarters. Not till the barracks are filled, they answered, conforming to the law. Compare Samuel Adams to Dennys De Berdt, Esq., Boston, 3 October, 1768. How absurd and ungrateful, cried Hutchinson. Hutchinson to T. Pownall, 8 Nov. 1768. The clause Chap. XXXVII.} 1768. Oct. wrote Gage, is by no means calculated for this coun– try, where every man studies law. Bernard to Hillsborough, 1 Nov. 1768; Gage to Hillsborough, 31 October, 1768. I am now at the end of my tether, said Bernard to his Council, and he asked them to join him in naming a commissary. To join in such appointment, answered the Council, would be an admission that the Province ought to be charged with the expense. The officers themselves could not put
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 38: (search)
with his present sup- Chap. XXXVIII} 1768. Nov. port of the plan of the Ministry. My astonishment at the folly of his opinions, he said, is lost in indignation at the baseness of his conduct. From the Report of Edmund Burke's Speech, of 8 November, 1768; in the Boston Gazette of 23 January, 1769; 721, 3, 2 and 3. The order, he insisted, requiring the Massachusetts Assembly to rescind a vote under a penalty, was absolutely illegal and unconstitutional; and in this Grenville agreed with him. by files of musketeers and terror; and he, too, condemned the Ministerial mandate as illegal. Arthur Lee's Report of the Debate, in Appendix to Life of R. H. Lee, 262. W. S. Johnson to W. Pitkin, 18 Nov. 1768; and W. S. Johnson's Diary, for 8 Nov. 1768, Cavendish Debates. Though it were considered wiser, said Rigby, to alter the American tax, than to continue it, I would not alter it, so long as the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay continues in its present state. Let the nation return to its