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Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865 156 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition. 48 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition. 46 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 23 3 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 22. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 22 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 17 17 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 15 3 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 4: (search)
a Protestant 7 and 9 William III. and 2 Anne.—the priest who should celebrate such a marriage was to be hanged; 12 Geo. I. nor be a guardian to any child, nor educate his own child, if the mother declared herself a Protestant; or even if hiolic priest, abjuring his religion, received a pension 8 Anne. of thirty, and afterwards of forty, pounds. 11 and 12 Geo. III. c. XXVII. And, in spite of these laws, there were, it is said, four thousand Catholic clergymen in Ireland, chap.nts, and horses, and victuals, Navigation acts of Charles II. and at last linens; 1704, 3 and 4 Anne, c. x. 1714, 1 Geo. I. c. XXVI. nor receive sugar, or chap. IV.} 1763. coffee, or other colonial produce, but from England. Its great staplht to have full power and authority to make laws and statutes of force to bind the people and the kingdom of Ireland! 5 Geo. I. c. i. But the opposite opinion was confirmed among the Anglo-Irish statesmen. The Irish people set the example of
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 5: (search)
n the presence of Grenville, intimates that Grenville adopted the measure of the stamp act at the suggestion of another. See the Reports by Cavendish, i. 499. Horace Walpole, a bitter enemy of Grenville's, yet says, in a note to his Memoirs of Geo. III. III. 32, that the stamp act was a measure of Bute's ministry, at the suggestion of his secretary, Jenkinson, who afterwards brought it into the treasury for Grenville's adoption. Bute personally, as we know from Knox, wished to bring the co and Pitt made no answer, but by humming audibly— Gentle shepherd, tell me where. The house burst out into a fit of laughter which continued some minutes. Anecdotes and Speeches of the Earl of Chatham, i. 369, 370. Walpole's Memoirs of Geo. III. Grenville, very warm, stood up to reply; when Pitt, with the most contemptuous look and manner, rose from his seat, made the chairman a low bow, and walked slowly out of the house. Rigby to the Duke of Bedford, 10 March, 1763. Correspond
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 9: (search)
Anne, 3 & 4 Ann. c. x., and 8 Ann. c. XIII. § 30. 12 Ann. c. IX. § 2. 8 Geo. i. c. XII. §1. 2 Geo. II. c. XXXV. had been suffered to drop; for, having never been called for, they had fallen intax imported from America. Report of Privy Council, 7 March, 1764. Order in Council, 9 March. Geo. III. c. XXVI. § 1. Compare the regulations lately made, 53, 55. But as to manufactures, itgia special indulgence was shown; following the line of precedent, 3 Geo. iic. XXVIII., and 27 Geo. II. c. XVIII. rice, though an enumerated commodity, was, on the payment of a half subsidy, allo of America, to the southward of those colonies; that is, to the foreign West India islands; 4 Geo. III. c. XXVII. Regulations, &c. 52, 53. so that the broken and mowburnt rice might be sold as quality of the discriminating duty, except the old subsidy, which was scarcely one per cent. 4 Geo. III. c. XXIX. This is the most liberal act of Grenville's administration, of which the merit is
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 10: (search)
n Juneof New-York, by its address to Colden, in September, had been guilty of the most indecent disrespect to the legislature of Great Britain. Council Register, Geo. III., No, 4, p. 48, 12 Dec. 1765. This the privy council Council Register, Geo. III., No, 4, p. 54, 14 Dec. 1765. reported as a matter of the highest consequencGeo. III., No, 4, p. 54, 14 Dec. 1765. reported as a matter of the highest consequence to the kingdom; and Halifax Council Register, Geo. III., No. 4, p. 62, 19 Dec. 1765. was ordered to receive the king's pleasure with respect to the time and manner of laying the papers before parliament. Having thus made sure in advance of the support of vast majorities, the ministry retired to chap. X.} 1764. Dec. enjoy thGeo. III., No. 4, p. 62, 19 Dec. 1765. was ordered to receive the king's pleasure with respect to the time and manner of laying the papers before parliament. Having thus made sure in advance of the support of vast majorities, the ministry retired to chap. X.} 1764. Dec. enjoy the Christmas holidays in the country-houses, where wealth, and intelligence, and tradition, conbined to give to aristocratic hospitality its greatest grace, abundance, and refinement.
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 11: (search)
expense of the colony, with fire, candles, vinegar, salt, bedding, utensils for cooking, beer, or cider, or rum; and the sums needed for the purpose were required to be raised in such manner as the public charges for the province are raised. 5 Geo. III. c. XXXIII. § 8. Thus the bill contained, what had never before been heard of, a parliamentary requisition on the colonies; it enjoined things different from the general principles of the constitution, and passed without attentive examinatiFeb. 1774. Tucker to Franklin. Grenville also resolved to select the stamp officers for America from among the Americans themselves; and the friends and agents of the colonies were invited to make the nominations; and they did so, Franklin Geo. III. c. XLV. C. Jenkinson to Secretary Pownall, 19 March, 1765. among the rest. You tell me, said the minister, you are poor, and unable to bear the tax; others tell me you are able. Now, take the business into your own hands; you will see h
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 20: (search)
a letter of Franklin of 6 Jan. 1766. The successive accounts from America grieved the king more and more. Where this spirit will end, said he, is not to be said. It is undoubtedly the most serious matter that ever came before parliament, Geo. III. to Conway, 6 Dec. and he urged for it deliberation, candor, and temper. He was highly provoked Conway to Gage, 15 Dec. by the riots in New-York; and the surrender of the stamps to the municipality of the city seemed to him greatly humiliating. He watched with extreme anxiety the preliminary meeting of the friends of the ministry; and when the day for opening parliament came, he was impatient to receive a minute report of all that should occur. Geo. III. to Conway, 7 Dec. The Earl of Hardwicke, Hugh Hammersley to Lieut. Gov. Sharpe, Dec. 1765, gives a very good report of the debate. Compare Philimore's Lyttelton, II. 687. himself opposed to the lenity of Rockingham, Albemarle, i. 284. moved the address in the H
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 24: (search)
t that time noticed, that the ministry had carried through the mutiny bill, 6 Geo. III. c. XVIII. with the obnoxious American clauses of the last year; and that the king, in giving his assent to the repeal 6 Geo. III. c. XI. of the Stamp Act, had also given his assent to the act declaratory 6 Geo. III. c. XII. of theGeo. III. c. XII. of the supreme power of parliament over America in all cases whatsoever. While swift vessels hurried with the news across the Atlantic, the cider act was modified by thction. Free ports were, therefore, established in Jamaica and in Dominica, 6 Geo. III. c. XLIX. which meant only that British ports were licensed to infringe thgs the piece, to be paid into the exchequer, and disposed of by parliament. 6 Geo. III. c. LII. Thus taxes for regulating trade were renewed in conformity to forly so far sharpened as to prohibit landing non-enumerated goods in Ireland. 6 Geo. III. c. LII. The colonial officers did not relax from their haughtiness. Unde