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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Colonial history. (search)
sland was granted just one year after the emperor of China had proclaimed the enfranchisement of Christianity among the hundred millions of his people. No joy could be purer than that of the colonists, when the news was spread abroad, that George Baxter, Backus, almost always very accurate, here mistakes the name. the most faythful and happie bringer of the charter, had arrived. On the beautiful island, long Nov. 24. esteemed a paragon for fertility, and famed as one of the pleasantest jesty's gracious letters patent. It was a very great meeting and assembly. The letters of the agent were opened, and read with good delivery and attention; the charter was next taken forth from the precious box that had held it, and was read by Baxter, in the audience and view of all the people; and the letters with his majesty's royal stamp, and the broad seal, with much beseeming gravity, were held up on high, and presented to the perfect view of the people. Now their republic was safe; Mas
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 15: (search)
he people led to a general assembly of two deputies from Nov. to Dec. each village in New Netherland; an assembly which Stuyvesant was unwilling to sanction, and could not prevent. As in Massachusetts, this first convention The original is Lantdag Dutch Records, 2. sprung from the will of the people; and it claimed the right of deliberating on the civil condition of the country. Dec. The States General of the United Provinces:— such was the remonstrance and petition, drafted by George Baxter, and unanimously adopted by the convention— are our liege lords; we submit to the laws of the United Provinces; and our rights and privileges ought to be in harmony with those of the Fatherland, for we are a member of the state, and not a subjugated people. We, who have come together from various parts of the world, and are a blended community of various lineage; we, who have, at our own expense, exchanged our native lands for the protection of the United Provinces; we, who have transfo
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 16: (search)
icated to me in Ms. by J. F. Fisher, who has since caused it to be printed. It is a most honorable office to do justice to the illustrious dead. My friend writes of Penn with affectionate interest, and yet with careful criticism. True criticism does not consist in absolute skepticism as to exalted worth. he had advocated, with Buckingham and Arlington, before the magistrates of Ireland, and English juries, in the tower, in Newgate, before the commons of England, in public discussions with Baxter and the Presbyterians, before Quaker meetings, at Chester and Philadelphia, and through the press to the world. It was his old post—the office to which he was faithful from youth to age. Fifteen thousand families had been ruined for dissent since the restoration; five thousand persons had died victims to imprisonment. The monarch was persuaded to exercise his prerogative of mercy; and at Penn's intercession, not less that twelve 1686 hundred Friends were liberated from the horrible dungeo
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 17: (search)
e to be the character of the Church of England, while parts of the writings of Knox, Milton, and Baxter, were pronounced false, seditious and impious, heretical and blasphe- Chap. XVII.} 1683. Dec. had kept English liberty alive, were consigned to the courts of law. Richard, said Jefferies to Baxter, Richard, thou art an old knave; thou hast written books enough to load a cart, every one as fulYet the revolution of 1688 is due to the dissenters quite as much as to the whig aristocracy; to Baxter hardly less than to Shaftesbury. It is the consummation of the collision which, in the days of istocracy looked to the stadtholder of aristocratic Holland as the protector of their liberties, Baxter and the Presbyterians saw in William the Calvinist their tolerant avenger. Of the two great ant, since it cherished among its numbers men so opposite as Shaftesbury and Sidney, as Locke and Baxter. These two parties embraced almost all the wealth and learning of England. But there was a