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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 16: (search)
sachusetts, loved its charter, of which it dreaded to risk the forfeiture by involving its legislature. The people, therefore, systematically assumed the direction of opinion. Assured of the protection of Fitch, the governor, who at heart was a lukewarm royalist, Ingersoll sought to reason the people into forbearance. The act is so contrived, said he, as to chap. XVI.} 1765. Sept. make it your interest to buy the stamps. When I undertook the office I meant a service to you. J. I., in Conn. Gaz. Stop advertising your wares, he was answered, till they arrive safe at market. The two first letters of his name, said another, are those of that traitor of old. It was decreed our Saviour should suffer; but was it better for Judas Iscariot to betray him, so that the price of his blood might be saved by his friends? The multitude, surrounding his house, demanded if he would resign. I know not, he replied, if I have power to resign. But he promised, if stamps came to him, to re-ship