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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 51: (search)
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 support; I know the uprightness of my intentions and am ready to stand any attack of ever so dangerous a kind. The good sense of the English people reasoned very differently, and found an organ among the ministers themselves. The duke of Grafton, by letter, entreated Lord North to go great lengths to bring about a durable reconciliation, giving as his reasons that the general inclination of men of property in England differed from the declarations of the congress in America little more than in words; that many hearty friends to government had altered their opinions by the events of the year; that their confidence in a strong party among the colonists, ready to second a regular military force, was at an end; that if the British regu