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Halifax (Canada) (search for this): chapter 18
ep towards despotic authority; the standing instruction they resolved should be changed, or they, on their part, would grant no salary whatever to the judges. Things are come to a crisis, wrote Pratt, in 1762. January, 1762, guided by his interest, and chiefly intent on securing a good salary. If I cannot be supported with a competent salary, the office must be abandoned, and his Majesty's prerogative must suffer. Why, asked Colden, should the chief justices of chap. XVIII.} 1762. Nova Scotia and Georgia have certain and fixed salaries from the crown, and a chief justice of so considerable a province as this be left to beg his bread of the people? and reporting to the Board of Trade the source of opposition in New York, For some years past, said he, three popular lawyers educated in Connecticut, who have strongly imbibed the independent principles of that country, calumniate the administration in every exercise of the prerogative, and get the applause of the mob by propagatin
New England (United States) (search for this): chapter 18
peril. This is the opening scene of American resistance. John Adams to the Abbe Mably. Works v. 492. It began in New England, and made its first battle-ground in a court-room. A lawyer of Boston, with a tongue of flame and the inspiration of f the judges were awestruck, and believed him in the right. Hutchinson cowered before him, as the great incendiary of New England. The crowded audience seemed ready to take up arms against the arbitrary enforcement of the restrictive system; espec respect for the rights of property and obedience to the law, will become familiar with a cast of mind still common in New England. The subserviency of Hutchinson increased the public discontent. Men lost confidence in the integrity of their higvor shown by the royal governors to the established church. In New York the college was under Episcopal direction; as New England's Cambridge was in the hands of Dissenters, Bernard sealed a charter for another seminary in the interior. A fund of
Connecticut (Connecticut, United States) (search for this): chapter 18
crown, and a chief justice of so considerable a province as this be left to beg his bread of the people? and reporting to the Board of Trade the source of opposition in New York, For some years past, said he, three popular lawyers educated in Connecticut, who have strongly imbibed the independent principles of that country, calumniate the administration in every exercise of the prerogative, and get the applause of the mob by propagating the doctrine, that all authority is derived from the peopur or five years passed away before the distinction was much heeded; and in the mean time the judges were punished by a reduction of their salaries. The general writs of assistance, which were clearly illegal, The decision of the Courts of Connecticut, and the decision of the Royalist Governor, Lord Bottetourt, and the Council of Virginia would have been prohibited by a provincial enactment, but for the negative of the governor. The commotion, which at first was confined to Boston, was
Cherokee (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 18
A party of Chickasaws and Catawbas attended as allies. On the eighth, they marched through the dreaded defiles of War-Woman's Creek, Moultrie's Memoirs of the American Revolution, II. 223. by a rocky and very narrow path between the overhanging mountain of granite and a deep precipice which had the rushing rivulet at its base. Yet they came upon no trace of the enemy, till, on the next day, they saw by the way-side, crayoned in April vermilion on a blazed forest-tree, a war-party of Cherokee braves, with a white man as a captive. On the morning of the tenth, at about half past 8, as the English army, having suffered from forced marches and rainy weather, were walking chap. XVIII.} 1761. through thick woods on the bank of the Cowhowee, or, as we call it, the Little Tennessee, about two miles from the battle-ground of Montgomery, at a place where the path runs along the foot of a mountain on the right, and near the river on the left, the Cherokees were discovered hovering ov
Rhode Island (Rhode Island, United States) (search for this): chapter 18
the people. These three popular lawyers were William Livingston, John Morin Scot, Rev. D. Johnson to the Archbishop of Canterbury. and—alas, that he should afterwards have turned aside from the career of patriotism!—the historian, William Smith. The news of the resignation of Pitt, who was almost idolized in America, heightened the rising jealousy and extended it through the whole continent. We have such an idea of the general corruption, said Ezra Stiles, a dissenting minister in Rhode Island, we know not how to confide in any person below the crown. Ezra Stiles to Franklin, Dec., 1761. You adore the Oliverian times, said Bernard to Mayhew, at Boston. I adore Him alone who is before all times, answered Mayhew, and at the same time avowed his zeal for the principles of the glorious Revolution of 1688, especially for the freedom of speech and of writing. Bradford's Life of Jonathan Mayhew, 222. Already he was known among royalists as an enemy to kings. The alarm rose e
Puritan (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 18
es, said Bernard to Mayhew, at Boston. I adore Him alone who is before all times, answered Mayhew, and at the same time avowed his zeal for the principles of the glorious Revolution of 1688, especially for the freedom of speech and of writing. Bradford's Life of Jonathan Mayhew, 222. Already he was known among royalists as an enemy to kings. The alarm rose every where to an extreme height, and every question of authority in church and state chap. XVIII.} 1762. was debated. The old Puritan strife with prelacy was renewed; and Presbyterians and Congregationalists were jealous of the favor shown by the royal governors to the established church. In New York the college was under Episcopal direction; as New England's Cambridge was in the hands of Dissenters, Bernard sealed a charter for another seminary in the interior. A fund of two thousand pounds was subscribed to a society, which the legislature of Massachusetts had authorized, for propagating knowledge among the Indians; b
Estatoe (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 18
a majority of one; but from England a negative followed with certainty every colonial act tending to diminish the slave-trade. South Carolina, also, appalled by the great increase of its black population, endeavored by its own laws to restrain importations of slaves, and in like manner came into collision with the same British policy. But the war with the Cherokees weaned its citizens still more from Great Britain. I am for war, said Saloue, the young warrior of chap. XVIII.} 1761. Estatoe, at a great council of his nation. The spirits of our murdered brothers still call on us to avenge them; he that will not take up this hatchet and follow me is no better than a woman. To reduce the native mountaineers of Carolina, General Amherst, early in 1761, sent a regiment and two companies of light infantry, under Lieutenant-Colonel James Grant, the same who, in 1758, had been shamefully beaten near Pittsburg. The province added to the regular forces a regiment of its own, under th
Georgia (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 18
potic authority; the standing instruction they resolved should be changed, or they, on their part, would grant no salary whatever to the judges. Things are come to a crisis, wrote Pratt, in 1762. January, 1762, guided by his interest, and chiefly intent on securing a good salary. If I cannot be supported with a competent salary, the office must be abandoned, and his Majesty's prerogative must suffer. Why, asked Colden, should the chief justices of chap. XVIII.} 1762. Nova Scotia and Georgia have certain and fixed salaries from the crown, and a chief justice of so considerable a province as this be left to beg his bread of the people? and reporting to the Board of Trade the source of opposition in New York, For some years past, said he, three popular lawyers educated in Connecticut, who have strongly imbibed the independent principles of that country, calumniate the administration in every exercise of the prerogative, and get the applause of the mob by propagating the doctrine
Madrid (Spain) (search for this): chapter 18
perilous. The Earl of Egremont, Pitt's successor, was a son of the illustrious Windham, of a Tory family, himself both weak and passionate, and of infirm health; George Grenville, the husband of his sister, renounced well-founded aspirations to the speaker's chair for a sinecure, and, remaining in the ministry, still agreed to do his best in the House; while Bedford became Lord Privy Seal. Peace was an immediate object of the king; and as the letters of Bristol, the English minister at Madrid, promised friendly relations with Spain, the king chap. XVIII.} 1761. directed, that, through Fuentes, the Spanish ambassador at London, the French court should be invited to renew its last propositions. It is only with a second Pitt, said Choiseul, that I should dare to treat on such offers. War is the only part to be chosen. Firmness and patience will not build ships for us; but they will give us a triumph over our enemies. As the weeks rolled on, and the Spanish treasure ships arriv
Worcester (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 18
o yet had no jurisdiction to redress it. The Court of Admiralty, in which the wrong originated, had always been deemed grievous, because unconstitutional; its authority seemed now established by judges devoted to the prerogative. Unable to arrest the progress of illiberal doctrines in the courts, the people of Boston, in May, 1761, with unbounded and very general enthusiasm, elected Otis one of their representatives to the Assembly. Out of this, said Ruggles to the royalist Chandler of Worcester, a faction will arise that will shake this province to its foundation. Bernard became chap. XVIII.} 1761. alarmed, and concealing his determined purpose of effecting a change in the charter of the colony, he entreated the new legislature to lay aside divisions and distinctions. Let me recommend to you, said he, to give no attention to declamations tending to promote a suspicion of the civil rights of the people being in danger. Such harangues might well suit in the reigns of Charles a
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