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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 54: (search)
teran fellow-soldier in the late war, wept profusely as he expatiated on their fast friendship and participation of service in that season of enterprise and glory, and holding up the British commanders in review, pronounced a glowing tribute to his superior merits. Edmund Burke contrasted the condition of the eight thousand men, starved, disgraced, and shut up within the single town of Boston, with the movements of the hero who in one campaign had conquered two thirds of Canada. I, replied North, cannot join in lamenting the death of Montgomery as a public loss. He was brave, he was able, he was humane, he was generous; but still he was only a brave, able, humane, and generous rebel. Curse on his virtues, they've undone his country. The term of rebel, retorted Fox, is no certain mark of disgrace. All the great assertors of liberty, the saviors of their country, the benefactors of mankind in all ages, have been called rebels. We owe the constitution which enables us to sit in th
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 3: (search)
ic to England and to France changed with the changing character of their governments. Towards the former, a Protestant power, he, as the head of the chief Protestant power on the continent, naturally leaned. Against France, whose dissolute king made himself the champion of superstition, he had fought for seven years; but, with the France which protected the United States, he had a common feeling. Liberal English statesmen commanded his good-will; but he detested the policy of Bute and of North: so that for him and the United Chap. III.} 1774. States there were in England the same friends and the same enemies. In November, 1774, he expressed the opinion that 1774. the British colonies would rather be buried under the ruins of their settlements than submit to the yoke of the mother country. Maltzan, his minister in London, yielded to surrounding influences, and in February, 1775, wishing to pave the way for an alliance 1775. between the two powers, wrote: The smallest attenti
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 16: (search)
d. We are come to the series of events which closed the American contest and restored peace to the world. In Europe the sovereigns of Prussia, of Austria, of Russia, were offering their mediation; the united Netherlands were struggling to preserve their neutrality; France was straining every nerve to cope with her rival in the four quarters of the globe; Spain was exhausting her resources for the conquest Chap. XVI.} 1780. of Gibraltar; but the incidents which overthrew the ministry of North, and reconciled Great Britain to America, had their springs in South Carolina. Cornwallis, elated with success and hope, prepared for the northward march which was to conduct him from victory to victory, till he should restore all America south of Delaware to its allegiance. He was made to believe that North Carolina would rise to welcome him, and, in the train of his flatterers, he carried Martin, its former governor, who was to re-enter on his office. He requested Clinton to detach th
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 2., Slavery in Medford. (search)
n Medford. by Walter H. Cushing. Slavery existed in Massachusetts almost from the first settlement of the colony, and was somewhat increased as a result of the Pequot war in 1637. The slaves in this instance were, of course, Indians. The chief source of African slaves, so far as their importation is concerned, was through trade with Barbadoes, a British island in the West Indies. Slaves purchased in Africa were sold chiefly in the West Indies and the Southern colonies; the balance came North. The mainspring of the traffic was rum; and Brooks in his History of Medford gives an extract from a captain's account-book showing balance between rum and slaves. Very few whole cargoes, however, came to Massachusetts; and only a small number of ships from Boston engaged in the African trade. In 1703 a duty of £ 4 was imposed on every negro imported. Slaves were most numerous in Massachusetts about 1745; in 1763 the ratio of whites to blacks, the latter including many free negroes,
The Daily Dispatch: November 22, 1860., [Electronic resource], Abolitionist sent North. (search)
Abolitionist sent North. --Among the passengers who arrived in Boston, Monday, by the steamer Jos. Whitney, was one named Ribero, of Savannah He had been sent off from Georgia for assuring negroes under his direction, in bridge building, that Lincoln was elected and they would be free. Before being sent away, he was whipped and his hair was cropped short.
The Daily Dispatch: January 31, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National crisis. (search)
eparation from that contact. Mr. Kettell, the ablest statistical writer on this side of the Atlantic, gives the following statement of the "annual load which Southern industry is required to carry" by its connection with the North: Fishing bounties$1,500,000 Customs disbursed at the North40,000,000 Profits of manufacturers30,000,000 Profits of importers16,000,000 Profits of shipping, imports and exports40,000,000 Profits on travelers60,000,000 of teachers and on pulpits sent North5,000,000 Profits of agents, brokers, commissions, &c.10,000,000 Profits of capital drawn from South30,000,000 $231,500,000 Now, the saving of Virginia's portion of this huge loss for a single year would be equivalent to balancing off her entire State debt. [As not pertinent to this article, we pass over the question as to the nature of this debt of forty millions, a large part of which is due to the Literary Fund, and therefore only a debt due to the State itself — another part
The Daily Dispatch: February 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Anti-Abolition Mob in New York. (search)
one, draining sixty millions per annum from the earnings of other sections. The following table gives some approximation of the annual load which Southern industry is required to carry: Bounties to fisheries, per annum$1,500,000 Customs, per annum, disbursed at the North40,000,000 Profits of manufacturers30,000,000 Profits of importers16,000,000 Profits of shipping, imports and exports40,000,000 Profits on travellers60,000,000 Profits of teachers and others at the South sent North5,000,000 Profits agents, brokers, commissions, &c.10,000,000 Capital drawn from the South30,000,000 $231,500,000 Taking an aggregate of these items for ten years only, the result is the enormous sum of $2,315,000,000; and allowing 20 per cent, of the sum only, as the aggregate of the fifty previous years, the amount is two thousand seven hundred and seventy millions of dollars earned at the South and added to Northern accumulation. Hence we can see why the Union is so "glorious" at
The Daily Dispatch: February 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
trictly observed, it will, in its own words, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity. 3. Resolved, That Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin, having been constitutionally and legally elected President and Vice President of the United States, at a general election, fully and freely participated in, on the same day, by the people of every State of the Union, South as well as North, that any attempt to dissolve or destroy the Union, on account thereof, in without excuse or justification, and should receive the condemnation of every patriot in the land. 4. Resolved. That we have heard with astonishment and indignation (!!) of the recent outrages perpetrated at Charleston, South Carolina, by firing upon an American steamer, sailing under the flag of our country, and that we expect of the General Government the strongest and most vigorous efforts to asserts its suprem
The Daily Dispatch: February 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Champion Skater. (search)
The irrepressible conflict In the late conciliatory speech in the House of Representatives of Mr. Kellogg, the representative from Lincoln's district, occurs this passage: "Fifty years ago it was generally conceded, South as well as North, that slavery was wrong; but since then education and political training had greatly changed the current of men's feelings with regard to this question; and now the opinions of the people cannot be changed. They might legislate till the ride ceased to flow, and yet the South would believe that slavery was right. They might legislate till the sun grew tired in his course, and yet the Northern mind would retain the belief that slavery was a moral and political evil. This was a subject on which it was useless to legislate. His proposition was to do as their fathers had done in 1820. In that year the slavery question in the Territory of Louisiana was agitated. How was that agitation met and settled?--Their fathers at once applied a reme
The Daily Dispatch: April 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
prices. the South bought these small wares, "gimcracks and haberdashery," in the enormous amounts described byHelperin the extract given from his book the other day; and, in order to discharge the indebtedness thus created, not only allowed the North to collect abroad the entire proceeds of her immense exportations, but also sent large additional quantities of products there, to be credited on the same indebtedness. The annual account current is thus stated by Mr.Kettell : Sent North: Bills of Exchange, raw materials, and other produce$462,560,394 sent South: Domestic goods$240,000,000 Imported goods106,000,000 Interest, brokerags,&c.63,200,000 Southern travelers53,360,394 $462,560,394 Such is the footing up of the long bill of items detailed fromHelperthe other day.--Seven of the Southern States have declared independence, have proclaimed that they will no longer remain in this commercial vassalage. Is Virginia, who is so admirably circumstanced to
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