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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition. 2 2 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 30: (search)
t in the conduct of affairs, just as the people of America were discussing the character of the new Revenue Act, which the King had not suggested; which no living member of the cabinet would own; which Grafton, the Prime Minister, described as absurd; but which was left as the fatal bequest of Charles Townshend to his successors and his country. Grafton's Autobiography; Compare speeches of Camden, of Grafton, of Shelburne, in the House of Lords, 7 Feb. 1775, and of Camden and Grafton, 5 March, 1776. The new taxes were not to be collected till the twentieth of November; and should the Sons of Liberty effect a universal agreement to send for no more goods from Britain, no customs would, even then, fall due. But such a confederacy, said Bernard, Bernard to Shelburne, 31 August, 7 September, 1767. will be impracticable without violence; and he advised a regiment of soldiers as the surest way of inspiring notions of acquiescence and submission. Ships of war and a regiment, said
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 40: (search)
a junior Lord of the Treasury, contrary, as he himself Chap. XL.} 1769 May. with the utmost solemnity declared, to his most earnest wish, and his intention at that very time, Lord North, Cavendish Debates, i. 485. to give his deciding vote in the Cabinet against the repeal, which the Duke of Grafton, the head of his Board, had proposed and advocated. Besides the Autobiography of the Duke of Grafton, compare the speeches of the Duke of Grafton and of Weymouth in the House of Lords, 5 March, 1776; in Force VI. 312. Now, indeed, the die was cast. Neither the Bedford party, nor the King meant to give up the right to tax; and they clung to the duty on tea, as an evidence of their lordly superiority. We can grant nothing to the Americans, said Hillsborough, except what they may ask with a halter round their necks. Du Chatelet to Choiseul, 12 May, 1769. They are a race of convicts, said the famous moralist, the pensioned Samuel Johnson, and ought to be thankful for any thing