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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 7: (search)
e loans or subsidies in Europe as could be expected only from an ally; and, before the end of October, they instructed Franklin to assure his most Christian majesty, they hoped protection from his power and magnanimity. There Chap. VII.} 1778. were those in congress who would not place their country under protection; but the word was retained by eight states against Rhode Island and Maryland. Samuel Adams and Lovell, of Massachusetts, voted for it, but were balanced by Gerry and Holten; Sherman, of Connecticut, opposed it, but his vote was neutralized by that of Ellsworth. The people of the United States, in proportion to their numbers, were more opulent than the people of France; but they had no means of organizing their resources. The Oct. pride that would not consent to an efficient union, was willing to ask protection from Louis the Sixteenth. The country was also looking to the United Provinces for aid; and in December Laurens retired from Dec. the office of president
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 9: (search)
nister now intervened, and on the twenty-seventh of May congress went back 27. o its resolve, that in no case, by any treaty of peace, should the common right of fishing be given Chap. IX.} 1779. June 3. up. Secret Journals of Congress, II. 161. On the third of June, Gerry, who was from Marblehead, again appeared as the champion of the American right to the fisheries on banks or coasts, as exercised during their political connection with Great Britain. He was in part supported by Sherman; Secret Journals of Congress, II. 162. but New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island alone sustained a right to the fisheries on the coasts of British provinces; and, though Pennsylvania came to their aid, the Gallican party, by a vote of seven states against the four, set aside the main question; so that congress refused even to stipulate for the free and peaceable use and exercise of the common right of fishing on the banks of Newfoundland. In the preceding December the queen o