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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 4: (search)
Chapter 4: The British retreat from Pennsylvania. May—June, 1778. The rescript of France, which announced to the Chap. IV.} 1778. May. British ministry her acknowledgment of American independence, assumed as a principle of public law that a nationality may, by its own declaration, speak itself into being. The old systems of the two governments were reversed. The British monarchy, which from the days of William of Orange had been the representative of toleration and liberty, put forth its strength in behalf of unjust authority; while France became the foster-mother of republicanism. In one respect France was more suited than Britain to lead the peoples of Europe in the road to freedom. On the release of her rural population from serfdom, a large part of them retained rights to the soil; and, though bowed down under grievous burdens and evil laws, they had a shelter and acres from which they could not be evicted. The saddest defect in English life was the absence of a
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 5: (search)
ry streams, rise on the east, while the western declivities are luxuriantly fertile. Connecticut, whose charter from Charles the Second was older than that of Pennsylvania, using its prior claim to lands north of the Mamaroneck river, had colonized this beautiful region and governed it as its county of Westmoreland. The settleme. Through his interest, and by the blandishments of gifts and pay and chances of revenge, Colonel John Butler lured the Seneca warriors to cross the border of Pennsylvania under the British flag. The party of savages and rangers, numbering between five hundred and seven hundred men, fell down the Tioga river, and on the last ddeaths, not to recover and hold; and the ancient affection for England was washed out in blood. When the leader of the inroad turned to desolate other scenes, Pennsylvania was left in the undisputed possession of her soil. After the retreat of the British, her government, Chap. V.} 1778. as well as that of New Jersey, used th
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 7: (search)
s, after the confederation should have been ratified. Of thousands of dollars, Massachusetts was rated at eight hundred and twenty; Virginia at eight hundred; Pennsylvania at six hundred and twenty; Connecticut at six hundred; New York, rent and ravaged by the war, at two hundred; Delaware and Georgia, each at sixty. A general w and ten millions more in the last. Certificates of the loan offices were also used in great amounts in payment of debts to the separate states, especially to Pennsylvania. The legalized use of paper money spread its neverfailing blight. Trade became a game of hazard. Unscrupulous debtors discharged contracts of long standinmise, the states were invited to withdraw six millions of paper dollars annually for eighteen years, beginning with the year 1780. The measure was carried by Pennsylvania and the states north of it, Chap. VII.} 1778. against the southern states; but other opinions ruled before the arrival of the year in which the absorption of
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 8: (search)
e 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 the sun, his boats passed over the falls of the Ohio. After leaving a small garrison in an island neathe south. Early in the year 1779, Cherokees and warriors from every hostile tribe south of the Ohio, to the number of a thousand, assembled at Chickamauga. To restrain their ravages, which had ex- Chap. VIII.} 1779. tended from Georgia to Pennsylvania, the governments of North Carolina and Virginia appointed Evan Shelby to command about a thousand men, called into service chiefly from the settlers beyond the mountains. To these were added a regiment of twelve-months men, that had been enli
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 9: (search)
d consist of eighty battalions, of which eleven were assigned to Pennsylvania, as many to Virginia, and fifteen to Massachusetts. Journals ct to Great Britain. This substitute was carried by the vote of Pennsylvania and Delaware, with the four New England states. But the stateder by the votes of the four New England states, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, against the unanimous vote of New York, Maryland, and North Carto the fisheries on the coasts of British provinces; and, though Pennsylvania came to their aid, the Gallican party, by a vote of seven states the falls of the Ohio; and, when in 1781 a son was born to him, Pennsylvania commemorated the event in the name of one of its counties. In lway in part, but by the votes of the four New England states and Pennsylvania against New York, Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina, with Nt states against New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Pennsylvania; Georgia alone being absent. The French minister desired to p
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 10: (search)
Washington in May gave repeatedly the May. instruction: Move as light as possible even from the first onset. Should time be lost in transporting the troops and stores, the provisions will be consumed, and the whole enterprise may be defeated. Reject every article that can be dispensed with; this is an extraordinary case, and requires extraordinary attention. Washington to Sullivan, Middlebrook, 31 May, 1779. Yet Sullivan made insatiable demands Chap. X.} 1779. on the government of Pennsylvania. While he was wasting time in finding fault and writing strange theological essays, the British and Indian partisans near Fort Schuyler surprised and captured twenty-nine mowers. Savages under Macdonell laid waste the country on the west bank of the Susquehanna, till the Indians, by his own report, were glutted with plunder, prisoners, and scalps. Thirty miles of a closely settled country were burned. Brandt and his crew consumed with fire all the settlement of Minisink, one fort ex
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 17: (search)
is act more slaves received their freedom than were liberated in Pennsylvania or in Massachusetts. Even had light broken in on Jefferson's mi Society of Friends ruled opinion in West Jersey. The name of Pennsylvania was dear throughout the world as the symbol of freedom; her citiretreat of the British from Philadelphia, and the restoration to Pennsylvania of peace within its borders, called forth in its people a sentimage. On becoming president of the executive council of 1779. Pennsylvania, Joseph Reed, speaking for himself and the council, renewed the sh slavery gradually and to restore and establish by the law in Pennsylvania the rights of human nature. In Chap. XVII.} 1779. the autumn o was adopted by a vote of thirty- 1780. four to twenty-one. So Pennsylvania led the way towards introducing freedom for all. Our bill, wroteto vote. Against this disfranchisement was cited the example of Pennsylvania, which gave the suffrage to all freemen. Should the clause not
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 18: (search)
After the northern campaign, he complained more than ever that his services had not been sufficiently rewarded. While he held the command in Philadelphia, his extravagant mode of living tempted him to peculation and treasonable connections; and Chap. XVIII.} 1780. towards the end of February, 1779, he let it be known to the British commander-in-chief that he was desirous of exchanging the American service for that of Great Britain. His open preference for the friends of the English in Pennsylvania disgusted the patriots. The council of that state, after bearing with him for more than half a year, very justly desired his removal from the command; and, having early in 1779 given information of his conduct, against their intention they became his accusers. The court-martial before which he was arraigned, on charges that touched his honor and integrity, dealt with him leniently, and sentenced him only to be reprimanded by the commander-in-chief. The reprimand was marked with the gre
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 19: (search)
arcely purchase a wagon-load of provisions. The Pennsylvania farmers were unwilling to sell their May. wheattaxes collected for the continental treasury. Pennsylvania was the first state that had the opportunity to ington appealed to the president of the rich state of Pennsylvania, which, except for a few months in 1777 and t man, wrote Greene secretly to the president of Pennsylvania, is confounded at his situation, but appears to he amiable Esther Reed, wife of the president of Pennsylvania, now made a more earnest effort: they brought toirst of January, 1781. Jan. 1781, a part of the Pennsylvania line, composed in a large degree of Irish immigral were hanged as spies. Reed, the president of Pennsylvania, repaired to the spot, though it was beyond his ified term, while measures were taken by the state of Pennsylvania to clothe and pay the rest. They, for the m Troops of New Jersey, whose ranks next to the Pennsylvania line included the largest proportion of foreigne
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 25: (search)
e night been joined by Steuben with militia, Lafayette was enabled to hold in check the larger British force. Wayne should have accompanied Lafayette with the Pennsylvania line, but they were detained week after week for needful supplies. Meantime Clinton, stimulated by Germain's constant praises of the activity of Cornwallis, sthe want of a central government. In the states from which the most was hoped, Hancock of Massachusetts was vain and neglectful of business. The president of Pennsylvania was more ready to recount what the state had done than what it meant to do; so that the army was not wholly free from the danger of being disbanded for want ofthen started in pursuit of Lafayette, who, with about one thousand continental troops, was posted between Wilton and Richmond, waiting for re-enforcements from Pennsylvania. Lafayette, I think, cannot escape him, wrote Clinton to Germain. Clinton to Germain, 9 June, 1781. Out of this has been manufactured the groundless story
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