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Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 566 0 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 51: (search)
nder consideration, with all its circumstances. The warning had no influence, for the king, in his dauntless self-will, would not consult those who were likely to disagree with him. A naval force, equal to the requirements of the governor of South Carolina for the recovery of that province, was also prepared. Of the hearty concurrence of parliament no doubt was harbored. I am fighting the battle of the legislature, said the king; I therefore have a right to expect an almost unanimous suppork the king at his word; Acland, who moved the address, reduced the question into a very short compass: Does Britain choose to acquiesce in the independence of America, or to enforce her submission? Lyttelton, whom we have seen as governor of South Carolina, in seconding the address, explained the inherent weakness of the southern colonies; and with obvious satisfaction intimated that, if a few regiments were sent there, the negroes would rise, and imbrue their hands in the blood of their master
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 55: (search)
ch from Fincastle and West Augusta, with patriotic rifle companies, composed of as fine men as ever were seen. In the valley of the Blue Ridge the different congregations of Germans, quickened by the preaching of Muhlenburg, were animated with one heart, and stood ready at the first summons to take up arms for the defence of the men of the low country, regardless of their different lineage and tongue. The general congress promptly invited Virginia, as it had invited New Hampshire and South Carolina, to institute a government of her own; and this was of the greater moment, because she was first in wealth, and numbers, and extent of territory. If that man is not crushed before spring, wrote Washington of Dunmore, he will become the most formidable enemy of America. Motives of resentment actuate his conduct to a degree equal to the Chap. LV.} 1775. Nov. total destruction of Virginia. His strength will increase as a snowball by rolling, and faster, if some expedient cannot be hi
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 56: (search)
for protection, and forbade their delegates in congress to assent to any proposition for independence, foreign alliance, or confederation. Moreover Lord Drummond, who represented a large proprietary interest in New Jersey, came to Philadelphia, and exhibited a paper which, as he pretended, had been approved by each of the ministers, and which promised freedom to America in point of taxation and internal police, and the restoration of the charter of Massachusetts. Lynch, a delegate of South Carolina, who had written to the north that John Adams should be watched because his intentions might be wicked, was duped by his arts, and thought even of recommending his proposals to the consideration of congress. Besides, it was expected by many, that agents, selected from among the friends of America, would be sent from England with full powers to grant every reasonable measure of redress. It was time for Franklin to speak out, for he best Chap. LVI.} 1776. Jan. knew the folly of expect
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 58: (search)
a; in less than a fortnight more than nine thousand four hundred men had risen against the enemy; and the coming of Clinton inspired no terror. They knew well the difficulty of moving from the sea into their back country, and almost every man was ready to turn out at an hour's warning. Moore, under orders from the council, dis- Chap. LVIII.} 1776. Feb. armed the Highlanders and Regulators of the back country, and sent the ringleaders to Halifax jail. Virginia offered assistance, and South Carolina would gladly have contributed relief; but North Carolina had men enough of her own to crush the insurrection and guard against invasion; and as they marched in triumph through their piny forests, they were persuaded that in their own woods they could win an easy victory over British regulars. Martin had promised the king to raise ten thousand recruits; the storeship, with their ten thousand stands of arms and two millions of cartridges, was then buffeting the storms of the Atlantic; and
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 60: (search)
ear perception of the sublimity of his task. When, in the life of a statesman, were six months of more importance to the race, than these six months in the career of John Adams? On resuming his seat, he found a change in the delegation of South Carolina. That province had sent to Philadelphia a vessel not larger than a pilot boat, for Gadsden, who held the highest rank in their army: at the risk of capture, the patriot embarked in January; fought his way through the ice in the Delaware, andd his disposition towards the people of America is more unrelenting and malignant, than was that of Pharaoh towards the Israelites in Egypt. No foreign power can consistently yield comfort to rebels, or enter into any kind of treaty with these colonies, till they declare themselves independent. Yet Dickinson and others, among whom were found William Livingston of New Jersey, and the elder Laurens of South Carolina, wished to make no such declaration before an alliance with the king of France.
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 62: (search)
ers bearing his commission, they established a constitution for South Carolina. The executive power was intrusted to a president, who was end the Exchange, in the presence of the troops and the militia of South Carolina, whose line extended down Broad street and along the bay; the pll support you with our lives and fortunes. The condition of South Carolina was peculiar; a large part of its population was British by birost to serve and to save an injured country. The word which South Carolina hesitated to pronounce, was uttered by North Carolina. That co the first colony to vote an explicit sanction to independence; South Carolina won from all patriots equal praise by her virtuous and gloriousina he might proceed at his own choice either to Virginia or to South Carolina, in like manner, to seize the persons and destroy the property of rebels wherever it could be done with effect. In South Carolina he was to attack and reduce Charleston, as a prelude to the fall of Savann
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 66: (search)
ost unprovoked and wicked rebellion within South Carolina, the succession of crimes of its inhabitand the command. The battalions raised in South Carolina were not as yet placed upon the continentad a body of Indians raised on the back of South Carolina; and a Chap. LXVI.} 1776 June. body of roonishing terror and affright. He reported South Carolina to be in a mutinous state that delighted hnsylvania, but from childhood a citizen of South Carolina, a man of rare worth in private life, brava regiment, two hundred more of the men of South Carolina under Horry; and the raccoon company of ri oppressions weighed down the industry of South Carolina; she came forth to the Chap. LXVI.} 1776.e royal governors of North Carolina and of South Carolina, as well as Clinton and Cornwallis, and seXVI.} 1776. July. and when, in the name of South Carolina, he returned thanks to the defenders, his estly declined, accepting only a sword. South Carolina, by her president and the common voice, sp[3 more...]
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 69: (search)
dependence without explicitly using the word, had been given by Massachusetts in January, by South Carolina in March, by Georgia on the fifth of April. North Carolina, in the words of Cornelius Harnetmong them probably Paca of Maryland, Mackean of Delaware, and undoubtedly Edward Rutledge of South Carolina; but I have not met with any authentic record of their remarks. Richard Henry Lee and Wythendependence was then sustained by nine colonies, two thirds of the whole number; the vote of South Carolina, unanimously, it would seem, was in the negative; so was that of Pennsylvania, by the vote oe, and Harrison reported the resolution; but at the request of Edward Rutledge, on behalf of South Carolina, the determination upon it was put off till the next day. A letter from Washington of thenabled Franklin, Wilson, and Morton, of Pennsylvania, to outvote Willing and Humphreys. The South Carolina members, for the sake of unanimity, came round; so though New York was still unable to vote,
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 70: (search)
tain; and therefore, the severe strictures on the use of the king's negative, so Jefferson wrote for the guidance of history, were disapproved by some southern gentlemen, whose reflections were not yet matured to the full abhorrence of that traffic; and the offensive expressions were immediately yielded. Congress had already manifested its own sentiments by the absolute prohibition of the slave-trade; and that prohibition was then respected in every one of the thirteen states, including South Carolina and Georgia. This is the occasion, when the slave-trade was first branded as a piracy. Many statesmen, among them Edmund Pendleton, president of the Virginia convention, always regretted that the passage had been stricken out; and the earnestness of Chap. LXX.} 1776. July 2-4. the denunciation lost its author no friends. All other changes and omissions in Jefferson's paper were either insignificant, or much for the better; rendering its language more terse, more dispassionate, and
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 44: (search)
exertions, and did not admit of the least delay. He invoked the enterprise of John Brown and other merchants of Providence; he sent an address to the inhabitants of Bermuda, from which island a vessel, under Orde of Philadelphia, actually brought off a hundred barrels of powder. His importunate messages were extended Chap XLIV.} 1775. Aug. even to New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania; and for his aid those colonies readily left themselves bare, till small supplies could arrive from South Carolina and Georgia. In all his wants, Washington had no safe trust but in the spirit of the country, and that never failed him. Between the twenty fifth of July and the seventh of August, fourteen hundred riflemen, a greater number than congress had authorized, arrived in the camp. A company from Virginia had Daniel Morgan for its captain, one of the best officers of the revolution. His early life was so obscured by poverty, that no one remembered his parents or his birth-place, or if he h
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