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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 15: (search)
f absolute obedience to all their past or future commands. But Maryland was free; Virginia governed itself. The restless colonists, almost as they landed, and even the Chap. XV.} soldiers of the garrison, fled in troops from the dominion of Amsterdam to the liberties of English colonies. The province of the city was almost deserted; the attempt to elope was punishable by death, and scarce thirty families remained. Albany Records, IV. 217, 222, 223, 237, 273, 311; XVIII. 43, 29, 400. Gordon's Pennsylvania, 23. Compare Albany Records, x. 397—468. During the absence of Stuyvesant from Manhattan, 1655. Sept. the warriors of the neighboring Algonquin tribes, never reposing confidence in the Dutch, made a desperate assault on the colony. In sixty-four canoes, they appeared before the town, and ravaged the adjacent country. The return of the expedition restored confidence. The captives were ransomed, and industry repaired its losses. The Dutch seemed to have firmly establis
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 16: (search)
edent of engaging in debate, and of proposing subjects for bills by way of conference with the governor and council. In return, by unanimous vote, a negative voice was allowed the governor The requisition was suffered to sleep on the journals. Gordon, p. 80. Now compare Votes and Proceedings, p. 10. Proposed to the voice of the house, whether the governor shall have the power of an overruling voice in the provincial council and in the assembly; as to the provincial council, it was carried in the affirmative, N. C. D. Again. The assembly required power to originate all legislative measures. This was conceded. Gordon, 79. Such was the issue; but not immediately. The petition of the house was for the privilege of conference. Votes, &c. p. 8. Com pare, too, Council Books, in Hazard's Register, i. 16, for March 15, 1683. The chamber of deputies under Louis XVIII. could petition the king to introduce a bill. Practically, the house gained the initiative, and Penn the negative voic
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 17: (search)
ew Jersey could not, as in the happier Connecticut, plead an earlier grant from the king. But when were Puritans at a loss for arguments in favor of freedom? We are the representatives of the freeholders of this province; —such was the answer of the assembly;—his majesty's patent, though under the gieat seal, we dare not grant to be our rule or joint safety; for the great charter of England, alias Magna Charta, is the only rule, privilege, and joint safety of every free-born Englishman. Gordon's New Jersey, 47. The firmness of the legislature preserved the independence of New Jersey; the decision of Sir William Jones protected its people against arbitrary taxation; its prosperity sprung from the miseries of Scotland. The trustees of Sir George Carteret, tired of the burden of colonial property, exposed their province to sale; Chap. XVII.} 1682 Feb. 1 and 2. and the unappropriated domain, with jurisdiction over the five thousand already planted on the soil, was pur- Leaming