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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 4: (search)
and America lost. In the streets that lately had the air of one continuous marketday, the stillness was broken by auctions of furniture which lay in heaps on the sidewalks. Those who resolved to stay roused mournfully from a delusive confidence in British protection to restless anxiety. In this strait the commissioners, as representatives of Britain, thought fit, in a communication to congress sealed with the image of a fond mother caressing her children, J. Laurens to his father, 11 June, 1778. to recognise the constituency of congress as states, and pressed them to accept Chap. IV.} 1778. June. perfect freedom of legislation and of internal government, representation in parliament, and an exemption from the presence of military forces, except with their own permission; in short, the gratification of every wish that America had expressed. And they insinuated that France was the common enemy. These offers, which were made without authority George the Third to Lord Nor