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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 51: (search)
continent of America, and either subdue its inhabitants or carry them along with them, and in the end not leave a foot of that hemisphere in the possession of any European power. All these consequences will not indeed be immediate Neither you nor I shall live to see them; but for be ing remote they are not less sure. The moderate men among British statesmen saw Nov. no less clearly that the king's policy was forcing independence upon the colonies. On the first of November the Duke of Manchester said to the lords: The violence of the times has wrested America from the British crown, and spurned the jewel because the setting appeared uncouth; but the debate Chap. LI.} 1775. Nov. which he opened had no effect except that Grafton took part with him, and as a consequence resigned his place as keeper of the privy seal. Every effort of the opposition was futile. On the tenth of November Richard Penn was called to the bar of the house of lords, where he bore witness in great detail t