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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 7: (search)
1778. were those in congress who would not place their country under protection; but the word was retained by eight states against Rhode Island and Maryland. Samuel Adams and Lovell, of Massachusetts, voted for it, but were balanced by Gerry and Holten; Sherman, of Connecticut, opposed it, but his vote was neutralized by that ofndred and six millions of dollars, and had fallen in value to twenty for one in silver; yet congress maintained the certainty of their redemption, and resolved—Samuel Adams and six others dissenting—that any contrary report was false, and derogatory to its honor. To make good the promise, the states were invited to withdraw six mthe banks of her navigable waters. In all New England, seedtime and harvest did not fail; and the unmolested ports of Massachusetts grew opulent by commerce. Samuel Adams, uttering the popular sentiment, wrote from Philadelphia: I hope we shall secure to the United States Canada, Nova Scotia, Florida too, and the fishery, by our
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 9: (search)
n to no proposition, unless it has for its basis peace with France as well as with America. On the report of an able committee on which are found the names of Samuel Adams and Jay, congress, on the fourteenth of January, 1779, resolved Jan. 14. unanimously, that as neither France nor these United States may of right, so they wilsubject of the terms of peace to a special committee of five, composed of Gouverneur Morris, of New York; Burke, of North Carolina; Witherspoon, of New Jersey; Samuel Adams, of Massachusetts; and Smith, of Virginia. Of these, Samuel Adams demanded the most territory; while Morris would rather have had no increase than more lands Samuel Adams demanded the most territory; while Morris would rather have had no increase than more lands at the south. On the twenty-third the committee reported their Chap. IX.} 1779. Feb. 23. opinion, that the king of Spain was disposed to enter into an alliance with the United States, and that consequently independence must be finally acknowledged by Great Britain. This being effected, they proposed as their ultimatum that th
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 17: (search)
pensable to their safety, and therefore to be secured at the pacification with England. The leader in this policy was Samuel Adams, whom the French minister always found in his way. The question of recruiting the army by the enlistment of black m on the fisheries, and when pathetic appeals, not unmingled with menaces, had been used prodigally and without effect, Samuel Adams said rashly, that it would become more and more necessary for the two empires to separate. On the other hand, when th four to twenty-one. So Pennsylvania led the way towards introducing freedom for all. Our bill, wrote George Bryan to Samuel Adams, astonishes and pleases the Quakers. They looked for no such benevolent issue of our new government, exercised by pree committee assembled at the new court-house in Boston. Among them were Bowdoin, who was president of the convention; Samuel Adams; John Lowell; Jonathan Jackson of Newburyport, who thought that the liberty which America achieved for itself should p
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 25: (search)
eloved countryman would restore full confidence, and render them equal to whatever is not impossible. Should you repair to your native state, the difficulty would then be how to keep men out of the field. The words sunk deeply into Washington's Chap. XXV.} 1781. mind. During the summer, congress sought to improve the methods of administration. It was proposed to substitute for executive committees a single head of each of the most important departments; and, against the opinion of Samuel Adams and without aid from Massachusetts, the system was adopted. Robert Morris was placed in charge of the finances of the confederation; the conduct of foreign affairs was intrusted to Robert Livingston of New York. Outside of congress, Hamilton persevered in recommending an efficient government. His views were so identical with those of Robert Morris, that it is sometimes hard to say in whose mind they first sprung up. Many who agreed with them in wishing a stronger union might think th
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 26: (search)
nd, appears to be more a home than any other that I have seen. I have often been to that church at Leyden, where the planters of Plymouth worshipped so many years ago, and felt a kind of veneration for the bricks and timbers. John Adams to Samuel Adams, 15 June, 1782. The liberal spirit that was prevailing in the world pleaded for peace. The time had not come, but was coming, when health-giving truth might show herself everywhere and hope to be received. The principles on which Americambrace it. I wish to retain the same simplicity and good faith which subsisted between us in transactions of less importance. Shelburne. With this credential, Oswald repaired to Paris by way of Ostend. Laurens, proceeding to the Hague, found Adams engrossed with the question of his reception as minister in Holland, to be followed by efforts to obtain a loan of money for the United States, and to negotiate a treaty of commerce and a triple alliance. Besides, believing that Shelburne was no