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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 50: (search)
was already despatching its consignments simultaneously to Charleston, to Philadelphia, to New-York, and to Boston. The system gave universal offence, not only as an enforcement of the tax on tea, but also as an odious monopoly of trade. Gen. Haldimand to Dartmouth, 28 Dec. 1773. Philadelphia, the largest town in the Colonies, began the work of prevention. Its inhabitants met on the eighteenth of October in great numbers at the State House, and in eight resolutions, denied the claim of Parnother more firmly than Chap. L.} 1773. Dec. ever. Cooper to Franklin, 17 Dec. 1773; S. Adams to James Warren, 28 Dec. 1773. 1773. The Philadelphians unanimously approved what Boston had done. Clymer and Mifflin to S. Adams. New-York, Haldimand to Dartmouth, 28 Dec. 1773. all impatient at the winds which had driven its tea-ship off the coast, was resolved on following the example. In South Carolina the ship with two hundred and fifty-seven chests of tea, arrived on the second of De
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 51: (search)
Commander-in-Chief who had recently returned from New-York. I am willing to go back at a day's notice, said Gage, if coercive measures are adopted. They will be lions, while we are lambs; but if we take the resolute part, they will undoubtedly prove very meek. Four regiments sent to Boston will be sufficient to prevent any disturbance. The King received these opinions as certainly true; and wished their adoption. He would enforce the claim of authority at all hazards. Dartmouth to Haldimand, 5 Feb. 1774. All men, said he, now feel, that the fatal compliance in 1766 has increased the pretensions of the Americans to absolute independence. From letters communicated to me by Lady Charlotte Lindsay. In the letters of Hutchinson, he saw nothing to which the least exception could be taken; Hutchinson's Diary. and condemned the Address of Massachusetts, of which every word was true, as the production of Chap. LI.} 1774. Feb. falsehood and malevolence. Accordingly on the se