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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 42: (search)
orough to Gage, 9 Dec. 1769. refused compliance with the Billeting Act, Lieut. Gov. Bull to Gen. Gage, 24 August, 1769. and whose people enforced the agreement ofthe names of the few enemies to America, who kept aloof from the Association. Bull to Sec. of State, 25 Sept. 1769, and Hillsborough to Bull, 30 Nov. 1769. In Bull, 30 Nov. 1769. In Europe, France studied with care the news from the Colonies, and was convinced of their intrepidity Choiseul to Du Chatelet, Versailles, 8 Sept. 1769. and their anand Colony, and sanctioned a compromise by a majority of one. South Carolina Bull to Hillsborough, 6 Dec. 1769. was commercially the most closely connected with Eoking with impatient anxiety for the desired repeal of the Act complained of. Bull to Hillsborough, 6 Dec. 261. Thus all America confined its issue with Great ondon, 9 December, 1769. Order in Council, 5 April, 1770; Hillsborough to Lieut. Gov. Bull, 12 June, 1770. Many of the patriots of Ireland Gov. Pownall to S.
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 46: (search)
he cause, ever suspicious of British moderation, and John Mackenzie, whose English education at Cambridge furnished him with arguments for the Colonies. Lieut. Gov. Wm. Bull, private letter to Hillsborough, 5 Dec. 1770. On the thirteenth of December they met the planters, merchants and mechanics of Charleston. Lynch, who hthe Colonies, then having five thousand and thirty white inhabitants, with five thousand eight hundred and thirtythree blacks, State of South Carolina, by Lieut. Gov. Bull, 30 Nov. 1770. commerce resumed its wonted activity in every thing but tea. Lieut. Gov. Bull to the Secretary of State, 13 Dec. 1770. For a moment rumLieut. Gov. Bull to the Secretary of State, 13 Dec. 1770. For a moment rumors of war between Great Britain and the united Kings of France and Spain, Chap. XLVI.} 1770. Dec. gave hope of happy effects. Compare A. Eliot to T. Hollis, 26 Jan. 1771. But this also failed. England, following the impulse given by Lord Egmont during the administration of Grenville, had taken possession of the Falkland Isl
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 47: (search)
should question the right of such negative. Hillsborough to Habersham, 4 Dec. 1771, and 7 August, 1772. The affections of South Carolina were still more 1772. Jan. thoroughly alienated. Its public men were ruled by their sense of honor, and felt a stain upon it as a wound. A Carolinian in the time of Lyttleton, had been abruptly dismissed from the King's Council; and from that day it became the pride of native Carolinians not to accept a seat in that body. Correspondence of Lieut. Gov. Bull. The members of the Assembly disdained to take any pay for their attendance. State of South Carolina, 1770. Since March 1771, no legislative Act had been perfected, Statutes at large, IV. 331. because the Governor refused to pass any appropriations which should cover the grant of the Assembly to the Society for the Bill of Rights; but the patriot planters ever stood ready to lend their private credit and purses to the wants of their own colonial Agents or Committees. To extend th
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 50: (search)
rbitrary act of its Council in imprisoning Thomas Powell, the Publisher of the South Carolina Gazette, for an alleged contempt. The Council was a body m which the distinguished men of that Province scorned to accept a seat; its members were chiefly the Crown officers; and they held their places at the King's pleasure. Their power to imprison on their mere warrant was denied; the prisoner was taken before Rawlins Lowndes and another magistrate on a writ of habeas corpus, and was released. Bull to Dartmouth, 18 Sept. 1773. Drayton's Memoirs, i. 118. The questions involved in the case were discussed with heat; but they did not divert attention from watching the expected tea ships. The ideas of Liberty on which resistance was Nov. to be founded, had taken deep root in a soil which the Circular of Massachusetts did not reach. At this moment the people of Illinois were most opportunely sending their last message respecting their choice of a Government directly to Dartmouth himself