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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Preface. (search)
s. To Mr. Spofford, of Washington, I owe two volumes of the manuscript correspondence of General Greene. Mr. Seward, in the State Department, and his successor Mr. Fish, with equal friendliness furnished me with documents which I needed from our own records. The late Joseph H. Lewis intrusted to me the very voluminous professional and private correspondence of General Wayne. I was also aided materially by the late Governor Andrew and by Secretary Warner of Massachusetts, by the late Senator Mason of Virginia, by Mr. George S. Bryan, and by the never-failing friendship of Mr. Brantz Meyer, Mr. J. Carson Brevoort, and Mr. George H. Moore. On the character of Alexander Hamilton, I sought and obtained instruction from the late President Nott, as well as from the late Mr. Church, who was Hamilton's secretary in his last period of military service. On two points I follow the verbal communications of Madison; and it was not without fruit that I once passed a day with John Adams. Wi
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 8: (search)
se of acquiring the territory north-west of the Ohio. The surrender of Burgoyne had given confidence; yet Patrick Henry hesitated; for, as success depended on secrecy, the legislature could not be consulted; but a few trusty men-George Wythe, George Mason, and Thomas Jefferson —were taken to counsel, and the expedition was resolved upon. On the second of January, 1778, Clark 1778. received his instructions and twelve hundred pounds in paper money. On the next day Wythe, Mason, and Jefferson Mason, and Jefferson pledged their influence to secure a grant of three hundred acres of land to every man who should engage in the expedition. On the fourth Clark left Williamsburg, clothed with all the authority he could wish. At Redstone-old-fort, he prepared boats, light artillery, and ammunition. For men he relied solely on volunteer backwoodsmen of south-western Pennsylvania, and from what we now call East Tennessee, Chap. VIII.} 1778. and Kentucky. On the twenty-fourth of June, the day of an eclipse of
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 9: (search)
erance in our national duty are the only means to avoid misfortunes. In a letter sent by a private hand, he drew the earnest thoughts of George Chap. IX.} 1779. Mason to the ruin that was coming upon the country from personal selfishness and provincial separatism in these words: I view things very differently from what themstances, push matters to the utmost extremity. Nothing will prevent it but the interposition of Spain, and their disappointed hope from Russia. Washington to George Mason, Middlebrook, 27 March, 1779. Copied by me from Ms. draft in Washington's handwriting: printed from the papers of George Mason, in the Virginia Historical RegGeorge Mason, in the Virginia Historical Register, v. 96. Marshall's Life of Washington, i. 291. On the eighteenth of May he wrote to another May 18. friend: I never was, and much less reason have I now to be, afraid of the enemy's arms; but I have no scruples in declaring to you, that I have never yet Chap. IX.} 1779. seen the time in which our affairs, in my opini
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 17: (search)
ing congress thus rent by party, Washington raised his voice and called upon George Mason and Jefferson to come forth to save their country. In 1779, when the prossical development, stood as mediator between the two. Many of her statesmen—George Mason, Patrick Henry, Jefferson, Wythe, Pendleton, Richard Henry Lee—emulated eachclergy of Virginia for their opposition to emancipation. In that same year, George Mason, demanding improvements in the constitution of the Old Dominion, addressed tovernment for themselves and their posterity, they set forth in the words of George Mason, that all men are by nature equally free and have inherent rights; namely, t deportation. The statute drafted by Jefferson, and in 1779 proposed by 1779. Mason to define who shall be citizens of Virginia, declared the natural right of expaion of rights, which was couched in the spirit and almost in the language of George Mason and Virginia: All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, ess
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 19: (search)
ctober, n words drafted by Robert R. Livingston, it adhered Chap. XIX.} 1780. with hearty good — will to the principles of the armed neutrality, and by a vote of a majority of the states it sought to quiet the discontent among the officers in the army by promising them half-pay for life. But to relieve the embarrassments of the moment it was powerless. Again on the twenty-second of October, Washington, to guide his native state towards union, poured out his heart to his early friend George Mason: Our present distresses are so great and complicated, that it is scarcely within the powers of description to give an adequate idea of them. With regard to our future prospects, unless there is a material change both in our civil and military policy, it will be in vain to contend much longer. We are without money; without provision and forage, except what is taken by impress; without clothing; and shortly shall be, in a manner, without men. In a word, we have lived upon expedien
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 22: (search)
. 511. Thus the conduct of the war obtained, for the first time, the harmony and unity essential to success. Washington was in danger of being shortly without men; yet he detached for the service in the Carolinas Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Lee, his best Chap. XXII.} 1780. Oct. cavalry officer, with the corps called the legion, consisting of three troops of horse and three companies of infantry, in all, three hundred and fifty men. For Greene he prepared a welcome at the south, writing to George Mason: I introduce this gentleman as a man of abilities, bravery, and coolness. He has a comprehensive knowledge of our affairs, and is a man of fortitude and resources. I have not the smallest doubt, therefore, of his employing all the means which may be put into his hands to the best advantage, nor of his assisting in pointing out the most likely ones to answer the purposes of his command. As he moved south, Greene left Steuben in Virginia. At Charlotte, where he arrived on the second