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Carolina City (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
rocity of justice. To the proprietaries of Carolina the respect of the 1689 revolution for vesteed that one of the proprietaries should visit Carolina, with ample powers 1694 alike of inquiry andtration, rather than into the constitution of Carolina. Not 1695. rejecting the best men of the paists. This was the first Chap. XIX.} act in Carolina disfranchising religious opinion. Soon aftwas, with the laws resting on it, rejected in Carolina. The journals of the provincial assembly shon behalf 1706 March 12. of the dissenters of Carolina, was adopted; the lords of trade and plantatis culture steadily increased; and the rice of Carolina was esteemed the best in the world. Hence the said, with but slight exaggeration, that in Carolina, every one did what was right in Bland, Ms. Chap. XIX.} fomenters of the distractions in Carolina, but the governor of the Old Dominion complaiy to instructions. All the colonies north of Carolina were directed to furnish quotas for the defen[1 more...]
Quaker (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
but he chose rather the internal peace that springs from mental felicity. This Quaker preacher, the oracle of the patriot rustics on the Delaware, was now, by free sends by pushing the doctrine of non-resistance to an absolute extreme. No true Quaker, he asserted, can act in public life, either as a lawgiver or as a magistrate. The inferences were plain. The liberties of the province, fruits of Quaker legislation, were subverted; and, if Quakers could not be magistrates in a Quaker communiid, but not exclusive. The former, elected speaker of the assembly, was a true Quaker, of a hasty yet benevolent temper, faithful in his affections, stiff and impracng to the usage of that day, wait on the governor with their remonstrance. The Quaker 1707 April 7. speaker reads it for them most audibly. It charges Lord Cornbur girl easily imposed upon his credulity. The devil would permit her to read in Quaker books, or the Common Prayer, or Popish books; but a prayer from Cotton Mather,
Topsfield (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
nations and commitments multi- April 18. plied. Giles Cory, a stubborn old man of more than four- April 14. score years, could not escape the malice of his minister and his angry neighbors, with whom he had quarrelled. Edward Bishop, a farmer, cured the Indian servant of a fit by flogging him; he declared, moreover, his belief that he could, in like manner, cure the whole company April 22. of the afflicted; and, for his skepticism, found himself and his wife in prison. Mary Easty, of Topsfield, another sister to Rebecca Nurse,—a woman of singular gentleness and force of character, deeply religious, yet uninfected by superstition,—was torn from her children, and sent to jail. Parris had had a rival in George April 22. Burroughs, who, having formerly preached in Salem village, had had friends there desirous of his settlement. He, too, a skeptic in witchcraft, was accused May 8 and committed. Thus far, there had been no success in obtaining confessions, though earnestly solici
France (France) (search for this): chapter 1
e with a bastard daughter of Louis XIV., had made himself the centre of a gigantic opposition to France. For England, for the English people, for English liberties, he had no affection, indifferentlyg money; so that Virginia refused to contribute its quota to the defence of the colonies against France, Present State, p. 62 and not only disregarded the special orders for assisting Albany, but witl of disasters. Meantime, the agents of Massachusetts, appealing to the common enmity towards France, solicited a restoration of its charter. King William was a friend to Calvinists, and, on the fs sometimes burned as a wizard, and sometimes as an insurgent against the established faith. In France, where there were most heretics, there were most condemnations for witchcraft. Rebellion, it wahan freedom or his country, is left without one to palliate his selfishness. The contest with France having engrossed the attention of England and of New England, Massachusetts, at this time, suffe
Cape Fear (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
he dominant motive was the interest of England, and not the reciprocity of justice. To the proprietaries of Carolina the respect of the 1689 revolution for vested rights secured their possessions. In the territory itself, south and west of Cape Fear, political parties had already become passionate, if they had not acquired consistency. Of the pretended Churchmen who were among the early emigrants, Archdale. some were known as ill livers, having the manners of the time of Charles II. Thes of the country, he quieted the jarrings between the colonists and their feudal sovereigns. To cultivate friendship with the Indians, he established a board to Chap XIX.} decide all contests between them and the white men. The natives round Cape Fear obtained protection against kidnappers, and requited this security by kindness towards mariners shipwrecked on their coast. The government was organized as it had been in Maryland, the proprietaries appointing the council, the people electing
Patuxent (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
ed opposition by demanding of the assembly, as a qualification of its members, an oath of fidelity to the proprietary. On resistance to the illegal demand, the house was prorogued; and, even after the successful invasion of England became known, the deputies of Lord Baltimore hesitated to proclaim the new sovereigns. The delay gave birth to an armed association for 1689 April. asserting the right of King William; and the deputies were easily driven to a garrison on the south side of Patuxent River, about two miles above its mouth. There they capitulated, obtaining security for them- Aug 1. selves, and yielding their assent to the exclusion of Papists from all provincial offices. A convention of the associates, for the defence of the Protestant religion, assumed the government, and, in an address to King William, denounced the influence of Jesuits, Chap XIX.} the prevalence of Popish idolatry, the connivance by the government at murders of Protestants, and the danger from plot
York Harbor (Maine, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
Indian invasion, and troubled by the Chap XIX.} anger and the outrages of domestic factions, yielded to Milborne. To protect the frontier, and invade and conquer Canada, was the ruling passion of the northern colonies; but the summer was lost in fruitless preparations, and closed in strife. Meantime, a house of representatives had been convened, and, amidst distress and confusion, the govern ment constituted by the popular act. In January of 1691, the Beaver arrived in New 1691 York harbor with Ingoldsby, who bore a commission as captain. Leisler offered him quarters in the city: Jan. 30 Possession of his majesty's fort is what I demand, replied Ingoldsby, and issued a proclamation requiring submission. Thus the aristocratic party obtained as a leader one who held a commission from the new sovereign. Leisler, conforming to the original agreement Jan. 31 made with his fellow-insurgents, replied, that Ingoldsby had produced no order from the king, or from Sloughter, who,
North America (search for this): chapter 1
ace escaped a violent death. The first of them who aspired to the crown of Great Britain was by an English monarch doomed to death on the scaffold; her grandson was beheaded in the name of the English people. The next in the line, long a needy exile, is remembered chiefly for his vices; and, as if a domestic crime could alone avenge the national wrongs, James II. was reduced from royalty to beggary by the conspiracy of his own children. Yet the New World has monuments of the Stuarts; North America acquired its British colonies during their rule, and towns, rivers, headlands, and even states bear their names. The pacific disposition of James I. promoted the settlement of Virginia; a timely neglect fostered New England; the favoritism of Charles I. opened the way for religious liberty in Maryland; Rhode Island long cherished the charter which its importunity won from Charles II.; the honest friendship of James II. favored the grants which gave liberties to Pennsylvania, and exten
Connecticut (Connecticut, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
have extended her boundary over a part of Connecticut; but Chap. XIX.} the people of the colony eat was that day, said the loyal address of Connecticut to King William, when the June 13. Lord, wto the democratic charter and government of Connecticut, is the most honorable proof of the respect, all their magistrates, and all annually. Connecticut was the most perfect democracy which had ev—such had been his words to the governor of Connecticut—I will not set my foot out of this colony, e decisions which established the rights of Connecticut included those of Rhode Island. The assaul of the English law of primogeniture. In Connecticut, no other influence gave a bias, except thad urging the appointment of a governor over Connecticut by the royal prerogative. These, and 1705ony. Where the people selected them, as in Connecticut and Rhode Island, they were chosen annuallyther place whatsoever. Thus the fabrics of Connecticut might not seek a market in Massachusetts, o[7 more...]<
Effingham (Ill.) (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
o conduct the government; and the people were forbidden by law to Chap XIX.} take care of themselves. To this were added the evils of an uncertain boundary on the south, and of disordered finances. All the acts of the democratic legislature were 1692 rejected by the proprietaries; while, as a remedy for Hewatt anarchy, Philip Ludwell, a moderate adherent of Martin, i. 194. Berkeley, once collector of customs in Virginia, a man Ms of a candid mind, a complainant in England against Effingham, and since 1689 governor of North Carolina, was sent to establish order and the supremacy of the proprietaries. But he had power to inquire into grievances, not to redress them. Disputes respecting quitrents and the tenure of lands continued; and, after floating for a year between the wishes of his employers and the necessities of the colonists, Ludwell gladly withdrew into Virginia. A concession followed. In April, 1693, the pro- 1693 prietaries voted That, as the people have decla
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