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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 5: (search)
entle land-tax, being the most equitable, must be our last resort. He looked forward with hope to the congress at Albany, but his dependence was on the parliament; for with parliament there would be no contending. And when their hands are in, he added, who knows but that they may lay the foundation of a regular government amongst us, by fixing a support for the officers of the crown, independent of chap. V.} 1754. an assembly? James Alexander, of New York, T. Sedgwick's Life of W. Livingston. the same who, with the elder William Smith, had limited the prerogative, by introducing the custom of granting but an annual support, thought that the British parliament should establish the duties for a colonial revenue, which the future American Grand Council, to be composed of deputies from all the provinces, should have no power to diminish. The royalist, Colden, saw no mode of obtaining the necessary funds but by parliamentary taxation; the members of the Grand Council, unless rem
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 18: (search)
a province as this be left to beg his bread of the people? and reporting to the Board of Trade the source of opposition in New York, For some years past, said he, three popular lawyers educated in Connecticut, who have strongly imbibed the independent principles of that country, calumniate the administration in every exercise of the prerogative, and get the applause of the mob by propagating the doctrine, that all authority is derived from the people. These three popular lawyers were William Livingston, John Morin Scot, Rev. D. Johnson to the Archbishop of Canterbury. and—alas, that he should afterwards have turned aside from the career of patriotism!—the historian, William Smith. The news of the resignation of Pitt, who was almost idolized in America, heightened the rising jealousy and extended it through the whole continent. We have such an idea of the general corruption, said Ezra Stiles, a dissenting minister in Rhode Island, we know not how to confide in any person below