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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., The crisis (search)
lute authority. Their denial of that claim and their union were ascribed by his friends to the hesitation of his Ministers, whose measures, they insisted, had prevailed by artifices against the real opinion of Parliament; and the coming hour was foretold, when he British Augustus would grieve for the obscuring of the glories of his reign by the loss, not of a province, but of an empire more extensive than that of Rome; Chap. XXV.} 1766. May. not of three legions, but of whole nations. Lloyd's Conduct of the Late Administration, &c., &c. No party in England could prevent an instantaneous reaction. Pitt had erected no stronger bulwark for America than the shadowy partition which divides internal taxation from imposts regulating commerce; and Rockingham had leapt over this slight defence with scorn, declaring the power of Parliament to extend of right to all cases whatsoever. But they who give absolute power, give the abuse of absolute power; —they who draw the bolts from th
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 30: (search)
Bute and the Princess of Wales no more, Ministers would not be more stable. Durand to Choiseul, 16 Sept. 1767. Following his own sure instinct, he directed that the vacant place Chap. XXX.} 1767. Sept. should be offered to Lord North. Receiving the summons, North hastened to London, declined the office from fear of his inability to cope with Grenville on questions of finance, returned to the country, and changed his mind just in season to accept North to Grafton, 10 Sept. 1767. Charles Lloyd to Lord Lyttelton, 17 Sept. 1767; Lyttelton's Life, 733, 734. before the appointment of another. At that time Lord North was thirty-five years old, having seen the light in the same year with Washington. While the great Virginian employed himself as a careful planter, or fulfilled his trust as a colonial legislator, or, in his hour of leisure, leaning against the primeval oaks on the lawn at Mount Vernon, in full view of the thickly forested hill which now bears the Capitol, mused on
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 38: (search)
f the Addresses of the two Houses of Parliament, and assurances that the King would not listen to the views of wicked men, who questioned the supreme authority of that body. While Hillsborough was setting his name to these papers, Montagu, the Governor of South Carolina, Lord Charles Montagu to the Secretary of State, 21 Nov. 1768. invited its Assembly to treat the letters of Massachusetts and Virginia with the contempt they deserved; a committee, composed of Parsons, Gadsden, Pinkney, Lloyd, Lynch, Laurens, Rutledge, Elliott and Dart, reported them to be founded upon undeniable, constitutional principles; Boston Gazette, 2 Jan. 1769; 718, 2, 2. and the House, sitting with its doors locked, unanimously directed its Speaker to signify to both Provinces its entire approbation. Letter of P. Manigault, Speaker, to Massachusetts Speaker, 21 Nov. 1768. In Boston Gazette, 9 Jan. 1769, 719, 3, 2. Provoked at what he had had no means to prevent, the Governor, that same evening, di