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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 40: (search)
n and Camden, therefore, silent in the House of Lords, insisted in Council, that some attempt should be made to conciliate the Colonies. Accordingly on the first day of May, just on the May. eve of the prorogation of Parliament, the Cabinet discussed the policy which it should definitively adopt. All agreed that the duties on the British manufactures of glass, paper, and painters' colors, were contrary to the true principles of commerce, and should be repealed; there remained of Charles Townshend's Revenue Act nothing but the duty on tea; and this, evaded by smuggling or by abstinence from its use, yielded in all America not fifteen hundred dollars, not three hundred pounds a year. Why should such a duty be retained, at the cost of the affections of thirteen Provinces and two millions of people? Grafton spoke first and earnestly for its repeal; Camden seconded him with equal vigor. Granby and Conway gave their voice and their vote on the same side, and Sir Edward Hawke, who
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 42: (search)
s the American Union. Virginia, when she heard of the proposal, made choice of Patrick Henry and Richard Bland, to appear as her Representatives. Henry and Bland to Golden, 1770. But the cherished scheme was defeated for the time by the British Ministry, who saw in Union the certain forerunner of independence. A general tendency to conciliation prevailed. Chap XLII.} 1769. Dec. Since the merchants of Philadelphia chose to confine their agreement for non-importation to the repeal of Townshend's Act, Letter of Robert Morris, Charles Thompson, and Thomas Mifflin to the Merchants of London. the merchants of Boston for the sake of Union gave up their more extensive covenant, and reverted to their first stipulations. Cooper to Gov. Pownall, 1 Jan. 1770. Hutchinson to Hillsborough, P. S. 5 Dec. 1769. The dispute about the Billeting Act had ceased in New Jersey and Pennsylvania; the Legislature of New-York, pleased with the permission to issue colonial bills of credit, Compa
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 44: (search)
try, disclaimed the American policy, adopted by his former colleagues when he himself was nominally the Minister. In this, said he, as in all the rest, I have been disappointed and deceived. W. S. Johnson to Gov. Trumbull, 6 March, 1770. The idea of drawing money from the Americans by taxes was ill judged; trade is your object with them. They should be encouraged; those millions are the industrious hive who keep you em ployed; and he invited the entire repeal of the Revenue Act of Charles Townshend. On the evening of the fifth of March, the House of Commons entered seriously upon the consideration of the question. Lord North founded a motion for a partial relief, not on the Petitions of America, because they were marked by a denial of the right; but on one from merchants and traders of London. The subject, said he, Debates of the Fifth of March, 1770, in Cavendish, II. 484. is of the highest importance. The combinations and associations of the Americans for the tem
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 47: (search)
Constitution, and exposed the Province to a despotic administration of Government. The inference was unavoidable. If the principle contained in the Preamble to Townshend's Revenue Act should be carried out, obedience would no longer be due to the Governor, and the rightful dependence on England would be at an end. Deceived by Hutchinson to Secretary John Pownall, 21 July, 1772; in Remembrancer, 1776, II. 57. The Secretary, on his Aug. part, was proceeding with eager haste to carry Townshend's system into effect; and on the seventh of August, he announced, that the King, with the entire concurrence of Lord North, Compare Hillsborough to Hutchinsonmouth, Chap. XLVII.} 1772. Aug. who became Secretary for the Colonies, had been taught to believe, Compare Dartmouth to Hutchinson, 2 September, 1772. I have been always taught to believe, &c. &c. like Lord North and the King, that it was necessary to carry out the policy of consolidation, as set forth in Townshend's Preamble.
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 48: (search)
a new colonial system, which Halifax, Bedford, and especially Charles Townshend, had matured, and which was to have sufficient vigor to contrnies a revenue towards maintaining their military establishment. Townshend, as the head of the board of trade, was unfolding the plan in thestion was precipitated upon America. In the very next year, Charles Townshend, resuming the system which he had advocated in the administras. Grenville had proposed taxes for the defence of the colonies; Townshend's preamble promised an ever increasing American civil list, indep the rights, and liberties, and welfare of the people. Just as Townshend had intrenched the system in the statute book, he died, and left imports from Britain. The government gave way, and repealed all Townshend's taxes except on tea. Of that duty Lord North maintained that itory act affirmed the power of parliament in all cases whatsoever; Townshend's preamble declared the expediency of using that power to raise a
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