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West Indies (search for this): chapter 1.17
e rights, and besought the people of the colonies to renounce commerce with Great Britain, and advised all the colonies to send delegates to a general Congress, to be assembled in the same place in May of the next year. Meanwhile an act of parliament restrained the trade and commerce of the provinces of Massachusetts Bay and New Hampshire and the colonies of Connecticut and Rhode Island and Providence Plantations in North America, to Great Britain, Ireland and the British Islands in the West Indies, and prohibited such provinces and colonies from carrying on any fishery on the banks of Newfoundland or other places therein mentioned, under certain conditions and limitations. This act diminished the food supplies of the poor in Boston, and great distress would have followed but for contributions from other colonies. But, stimulated rather than deterred by this last act of aggression, the colonies, as advised, appointed delegates to another general Congress, all being represented exc
Capon Springs (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.17
ot known to the committee appointed to draft the declaration whether all the colonies would approve it. In the same chapter Mr. Grady calls attention to the answer to Mr. Webster by Mr. Calhoun, and to the complete overthrow of his (Webster's) political doctrines, by quoting his own former utterances (always scrupulously ignored and excluded by northern compilers of school readers, speakers, union text-books, etc.), and adds a quotation from an address delivered long after this debate at Capon Springs, Va. There, in June, 1851, Mr. Webster said: I have not hesitated to say, and I repeat, that, if the northern States refuse, willfully and deliberately, to carry into effect that part of the constitution which respects the restoration of fugitive slaves, and Congress provide no remedy, the South would no longer be bound to observe the compact. A bargain cannot be broken on one side, and still bind the other side. Here Mr. Webster seems to recognize very clearly the fact that the severa
North Carolina (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.17
achusetts. The stamp act, in 1765, however, raised a storm of opposition in all the colonies, and, at the request of Massachusetts, a Congress assembled in New York, composed of delegates from them all except Canada, New Hampshire, Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia. This Congress adopted a declaration of rights, and sent an address to the king and a petition to the parliament, asserting the right of the colonies to be exempted from all taxes not imposed by their consent. The obnoxious act rs resolved themselves into a committee, adopted resolutions declaring, in substance, that the cause of Boston was the cause of all, and took steps to induce the other colonies to appoint delegates to the general Congress proposed by Boston. North Carolina's legislative assembly also denounced the Boston port bill, and approved the plan for a general Congress. At last, on the 5th of September, 1774, the first Continental Congress was organized in Philadelphia, all the colonies being represente
Scotia (search for this): chapter 1.17
ted out the dangers which threatened those rights, and besought the people of the colonies to renounce commerce with Great Britain, and advised all the colonies to send delegates to a general Congress, to be assembled in the same place in May of the next year. Meanwhile an act of parliament restrained the trade and commerce of the provinces of Massachusetts Bay and New Hampshire and the colonies of Connecticut and Rhode Island and Providence Plantations in North America, to Great Britain, Ireland and the British Islands in the West Indies, and prohibited such provinces and colonies from carrying on any fishery on the banks of Newfoundland or other places therein mentioned, under certain conditions and limitations. This act diminished the food supplies of the poor in Boston, and great distress would have followed but for contributions from other colonies. But, stimulated rather than deterred by this last act of aggression, the colonies, as advised, appointed delegates to another ge
Montgomery (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.17
of the soldiers discharged their muskets, killing three of the crowd and wounding five others. The captain and eight men were tried for murder and all were acquitted, except two, who were convicted of manslaughter. About this time parliament repealed all the taxes imposed by the act of 1767, except that on tea. Another act, passed in 773, permitted the East India Company to carry their tea into the colonies and undersell the smugglers of Dutch tea. Mr. Grady asserts, on the authority of Montgomery's American History, that nine-tenths of all they imported was smuggled from Holland. There remained only a duty of three pence per pound to be paid in the port of entry; but the importation was resisted in the principal importing cities, notably in Boston, where the smugglers organized a band of Mohawk Indians and dumped into the sea about $100,000 worth of tea. Parliament thereupon passed several retaliatory and repressive acts, by the first of which the harbor of Boston was declared cl
Massachusetts Bay (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.17
co-operation and union would have been impossible. This Congress declared what it deemed to be the inalienable rights of English freemen, pointed out the dangers which threatened those rights, and besought the people of the colonies to renounce commerce with Great Britain, and advised all the colonies to send delegates to a general Congress, to be assembled in the same place in May of the next year. Meanwhile an act of parliament restrained the trade and commerce of the provinces of Massachusetts Bay and New Hampshire and the colonies of Connecticut and Rhode Island and Providence Plantations in North America, to Great Britain, Ireland and the British Islands in the West Indies, and prohibited such provinces and colonies from carrying on any fishery on the banks of Newfoundland or other places therein mentioned, under certain conditions and limitations. This act diminished the food supplies of the poor in Boston, and great distress would have followed but for contributions from ot
Georgia (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.17
ss assembled in New York, composed of delegates from them all except Canada, New Hampshire, Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia. This Congress adopted a declaration of rights, and sent an address to the king and a petition to the parliament, asser1774, the first Continental Congress was organized in Philadelphia, all the colonies being represented except Canada and Georgia. The first act of this Congress was to agree that each colony should have one vote, and this equality, says Mr. Grady, sion, the colonies, as advised, appointed delegates to another general Congress, all being represented except Canada and Georgia, as before, on its assemblage in May, 1775. Georgia was also represented some two months later. Hostilities had broken Georgia was also represented some two months later. Hostilities had broken out between Great Britain and Massachusetts before this Congress met. The battle of Lexington had been fought, and volunteers from Connecticut and Vermont, under Colonel Ethan Allen, had seized upon the military posts of Ticonderoga and Crown Point.
New England (United States) (search for this): chapter 1.17
he military posts of Ticonderoga and Crown Point. New England, says Mr. Grady, had now crossed the Rubicon; a smother country was begun mainly for the relief of New England, and especially of Massachusetts, from oppressive fact is contrasted with the persistent effort of New England States to take advantage of their federal relatioured by congressional legislation. We begin with New England's shipping interests, because they were among theome the leading industry of the seaboard towns of New England, and the numerous vessels belonging to Massachuse of the colonies. For about a century and a half New England enjoyed almost a monopoly of the carrying trade oecause of bitter memories of British aggressions, New England's shipping interests enjoyed, it would not be far that may be, the builders and owners of ships in New England were unwilling to trust entirely to a mere sentimsolute monopoly of the home market for ships, and New England's cod fishermen were quartered on the taxpayers o
North America (search for this): chapter 1.17
al significance. The general effect of his presentation of the case is to show that from the beginning of the history of the Federal Government, the Southern States have been compelled to occupy a defensive attitude. The British colonies in North America had entered into several temporary unions, so to speak, for mutual defense, before the war of the revolution. After the close of the war with France (1764), England revived and amended an old law levying duties on sugar and molasses, on thn the same place in May of the next year. Meanwhile an act of parliament restrained the trade and commerce of the provinces of Massachusetts Bay and New Hampshire and the colonies of Connecticut and Rhode Island and Providence Plantations in North America, to Great Britain, Ireland and the British Islands in the West Indies, and prohibited such provinces and colonies from carrying on any fishery on the banks of Newfoundland or other places therein mentioned, under certain conditions and limita
Rhode Island (Rhode Island, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.17
deemed to be the inalienable rights of English freemen, pointed out the dangers which threatened those rights, and besought the people of the colonies to renounce commerce with Great Britain, and advised all the colonies to send delegates to a general Congress, to be assembled in the same place in May of the next year. Meanwhile an act of parliament restrained the trade and commerce of the provinces of Massachusetts Bay and New Hampshire and the colonies of Connecticut and Rhode Island and Providence Plantations in North America, to Great Britain, Ireland and the British Islands in the West Indies, and prohibited such provinces and colonies from carrying on any fishery on the banks of Newfoundland or other places therein mentioned, under certain conditions and limitations. This act diminished the food supplies of the poor in Boston, and great distress would have followed but for contributions from other colonies. But, stimulated rather than deterred by this last act of aggression,
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