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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Woodruff, Wilford 1807-1898 (search)
Woodruff, Wilford 1807-1898 Mormon; born in Northington (now Avon), Conn., March 1, 1807; was ordained a priest in the Mormon Church in 1833; accompanied the Mormons to Salt Lake City; became one of the twelve apostles in April, 1839; travelled over 150,000 miles on missionary tours; succeeded John Taylor as president of the Mormon Church in 1887; and was a member of the Utah legislature for twenty-two years. He died in Salt Lake City, Utah, Sept. 3, 1898.
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 12: (search)
the request chap. XII.} 1765. April. of the duke of Cumberland, the king, again without consulting his four ministers, gave directions, that his uncle and his brothers, five in all, should be specially designated as fixed members of the council. This they refused to approve; and yielded to his wishes only on condition that he should renounce the privilege which he had reserved of appointing four others To Grenville he refused this concession; but afterwards accepted it in concert with Northington. Grenville had certainly just cause of complaint, and on Sunday, the twenty-eighth of April, with a firm and steady countenance, and at very great length, he expostulated with the king on his withholding confidence from his ministers. The king at first started and professed surprise; and as the conversation proceeded, grew exceedingly agitated and disturbed, changed countenance, and flushed so much that the water stood in his eyes from the excessive heat of his face; but he neither deni
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 15: (search)
fatality I did not expect; and with grief and disappointment in his heart, he retired into Somersetshire. Let us see, said the ministers, if the duke of Cumberland will be desperate enough to form an administration without Pitt and Temple. Northington assured them, that they might remain in office if chap. XV.} 1765. June they chose. The most wary gave in their adhesion; even Charles Yorke went to Grenville and declared his support, and Gilbert Elliott did the like. Our cause is in you world, of which neither Voltaire nor himself had any preconception. The new ministry did not enter upon their career with any purpose of repealing or changing the stamp act. Many of those whose support was essential to them, among others, Northington, who remained in the cabinet as chancellor, Yorke, and Charles Towns- chap. XV.} 1765. July. hend, were among its earliest and most strenuous supporters; and the duke of Cumberland was the last man in England to temporize with what he might
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 20: (search)
principles, by which the liberty of the person was secured against arbitrary arrest, and the rights of property were recognised as sacred against every exaction without consent. The two opinions were also represented in the new ministry. Northington, the Lord Chancellor, chap. XX.} 1765. Dec. and Charles Yorke, the Attorney-General, insisted on the right to tax America; while Grafton and Conway inclined to abdicate the pretended right, and the kind-hearted Rockingham declared himself read will they pay to your paper protestations? Ministers may be afraid of going too far on their own authority; but will they refuse assistance when it is offered them? We serve the chap. XX.} 1765. Dec. crown by strengthening its hands. Northington, the Chancellor, argued from the statute book, that, as a question of law, the dependence of the colonies had been fully declared in the reign of William III.; and he lustily roared, that America must submit. Lord Mansfield denied the power
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 22: (search)
tries. H. Hammersley to Sharpe. Thus he reasoned in a strain of eloquence, which Pitt called divine. Chatham Correspondence, II. 368. The editor erroneously dates the letter 15 Jan. It was of 4 February. I cannot sit silent, replied Northington, the. Lord Chancellor, speaking very shortly; I cannot sit silent, upon doctrines being laid down so new, so unmaintainable, and so unconstitutional. In every state there must be a supreme dominion; every government can arbitrarily impose lawed and sustained, chap. XXII.} 1766. Feb. the rightfulness of his policy was affirmed; and he was judged to have proceeded in conformity with the constitution. Thus did Edmund Burke and the Rockingham ministry on that night lead Mansfield, Northington, and the gentlemen of the long robe, to found the new tory party of England, and recover legality for its position, stealing it away from the party that hitherto, under the revolution, had possessed it exclusively. It was decided as a questio
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 24: (search)
ity and jurisdiction of parliament, the evil consequences of which no declaratory act can avert or qualify. Wiffen's House of Russell, II., 571. The House of Lords divided. For subduing the colonies, if need be, by sword or fire, there appeared sixty-one, including the Duke of York, and several of the bishops; in favor of the repeal there were seventy-three; but adding the voices of those absent peers, who voted by proxy, the numbers were one hundred and five against seventy-one. Northington, than whom no one had been more vociferous that the Americans must submit, voted for the repeal, chap XXIV.} 1766. Mar. pleading his unwillingness to act on such a question against the House of Commons. Immediately, the protest which Lyttelton had prepared against committing the bill, was produced, and signed by thirty-three peers, with Bedford at their head. Against the total repeal of the Stamp Act, they maintained that such a strange and unheard of submission of King, Lords, and
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., The crisis (search)
le an event. The madness and distractions of America have demanded the attention of the Supreme Legislature, and the colony Charters have been considered and declared by judges The allusion is probably to the Speech of the Lord Chancellor, Northington, in the House of Lords, February 8, 1766. of the realm, inconsistent, and actually forfeited by the audacious and unpardonable Resolves of subordinate Assemblies. This regulation must no longer be trusted to accidental obedience. If I shouldts connection with Great Britain, elected as its Governor the discreet and patriotic William Pitkin, in place of the loyalist Fitch. The Legislature of South Carolina, retaining, like Georgia, Sir James Wright (nephew to Lord Chancellor, Northington) to the Secretary, 23 July, 1766. its avowed sentiments on internal taxation, marked its loyalty by granting every requisition, even for doubtful purposes; at the same time, it asked for the pictures of Lynch, Gadsden, and Rutledge; and on the
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 26: (search)
ray, 26 August, 1766. and it was proposed to make them eligible as Justices of the Peace and as Judges. Duke of Richmond's Journal, in Albemarle, i. 358. But Northington, in very ill humor, thrust forward vague objections; Duke of Richmond's Journal, in Albemarle, i. 351. and as his colleagues persevered, he repaired to the K1766. Bedford Correspondence, III. 333. and inviting him to form an independent Ministry. The King to Pitt, 7 July, 1766. Chatham Correspondence, II. 436. Northington to Pitt, 7 July, 1766. Chat. Cor. II. 435. The feeble invalid, whose infirmities inflamed his constitutional hopefulness, bounded at the summons of his sovereimself the quiet custody of the Privy Seal Taken as a whole, the Cabinet—of which the Members were Pitt, Camden, Grafton, Conway, Shelburne, and the now inactive Northington—was the most liberal that had been composed in England. If ever a Cabinet, wrote a sagacious observer, Durand to Choiseul, 30 July, 1766. Referring not to
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 30: (search)
the semblance of perfect trust; showing him all Chatham's letters, Walpole's Memoirs, III. 61, 62. Here Walpole becomes a leading authority on account of his intimacy with Conway, and for the time, with Grafton. The comparison with the Autobiography of the latter, shows that Walpole was well-informed. and giving him leave to treat with his own old associates, Chap. XXX.} 1767. July. though Grafton desired to effect through Gower a junction with the friends of Bedford. Grafton to Northington, 18 July, 1767. But Rockingham, who never opened his eyes to the light that was springing from the increased intelligence of the masses, and left out of view that all his glory as a statesman had come from his opposition to Grenville and Bedford, governed himself exclusively by the ancient principle of his party to fight up against the King and against the people, Marquis of Lansdowne to Arthur Lee, in Life of Arthur Lee, II. 357. and set about forming a Ministry by cementing the s
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 38: (search)
rt, I shall be able to defeat the mis chievous designs of those turbulent and seditious per sons, who, under false pretences, have but too success- Chap. XXXVIII} 1768. Nov. fully deluded numbers of my subjects in America. In the House of Commons Lord Henly, Arthur Lee in Life of R. H. Lee, 261, 262. The Letter is dated erroneously, Oct. 9, for Nov. 9, 1768. I have several reports of this debate. Cavendish, i. 32, &c. William S. Johnson to Gov. Pitkin, 18 November, 1768. son of Northington, in moving the Address, signalized the people of Boston for their defiance of all legal authority. I gave my vote to the revenue Act of Charles Townshend, thus he was seconded by Hans Stanley, that we might test the obedience of the Americans to the Declaratory Law of 1766. Troops have been drawn together in America to enforce it, and have commenced the operation in Boston. Men so unsusceptible of all middle terms of accommodation, call loudly for our correction. What, Sir, will bec
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