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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 18: (search)
was admitted by the chief justice, who yet had no jurisdiction to redress it. The Court of Admiralty, in which the wrong originated, had always been deemed grievous, because unconstitutional; its authority seemed now established by judges devoted to the prerogative. Unable to arrest the progress of illiberal doctrines in the courts, the people of Boston, in May, 1761, with unbounded and very general enthusiasm, elected Otis one of their representatives to the Assembly. Out of this, said Ruggles to the royalist Chandler of Worcester, a faction will arise that will shake this province to its foundation. Bernard became chap. XVIII.} 1761. alarmed, and concealing his determined purpose of effecting a change in the charter of the colony, he entreated the new legislature to lay aside divisions and distinctions. Let me recommend to you, said he, to give no attention to declamations tending to promote a suspicion of the civil rights of the people being in danger. Such harangues might