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Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
favored the grants which gave liberties to Pennsylvania, and extended them to Chap. XIX.} Delawareppy than Lord Baltimore, the proprietary of Pennsylvania recovered his authority without surrenderinties were jealous of the superior weight of Pennsylvania; disputes respecting appointments to Nov. c manifesto, signed by all the members from Pennsylvania, declared it to be the right of the assemblSuch was the success of a royal governor in Pennsylvania. Meantime, the proprietary recovered hisd for the restoration of the proprietary of Pennsylvania. He is my old acquaintance, answered Willia the delegates from Delaware and those from Pennsylvania. At last, the news was received that the Eersecuted, and dissenters disfranchised; in Pennsylvania, human rights were respected. The fundamenn made by the proprietary. In 1702, 1702. Pennsylvania convened its legislature apart, and the twoxecutive power intrusted to the governor of Pennsylvania was too feeble to limit the power of the pe[6 more...]
West Indies (search for this): chapter 1
lso, its swarms of negro slaves. The profits of the rice-fields tempted the planter to enlarge his domains, and Africa furnished laborers. The cereal grasses were ill adapted to the sands near the sea, or the alluvial swamps. The woods were more inviting. Early in the eighteenth century, the Carolina Indian trader had penetrated a thousand miles into the interior The skins of bears, beaver, wildcats, deer, foxes, and raccoons, invited commerce. The oak was cleft into staves for the West Indies: the trunk of the pine was valued for masts, boards, and joists; its juices yielded turpentine; from the same tree, when dry, fire extracted tar. But naval stores were still more the produce of North Carolina, where, as yet, slaves were very few, and the lonely planters, under their mild sky, mingled a leisurely industry with the use of the fowling-piece. While the world was set on fire by wars of unparalleled extent, the unpolished inhabitants of North Carolina multiplied and spread
Treviri (Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany) (search for this): chapter 1
o read. Once more the drums beat. Silence! exclaimed Fletcher. Drum, drum, I say! shouted Wadsworth, adding, as he turned to the governor of New York, If I am interrupted again, I will make the sun shine through you in a moment. Fletcher was daunted; and, as the excited people came swarming into Hartford, in spite of his expressed determination, he fled from the scene to his government in New York. In England, the king, in council, decided, on the 1694. April 19. advice of Ward and Treves, that the ordinary power of the militia in Connecticut, and in Rhode Island, belonged to their respective governments; and Winthrop, returning from his agency to a joyful welcome, was soon elected governor of a colony of which he had asserted the freedom. The decisions which established the rights of Connecticut included those of Rhode Island. The assaults of the royalists were always made upon the more powerful colony, in the assurance that the fate of both would be included in its over
Salem (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
e, p. 13. course, the trouble of us all. In Salem village, now Danvers, there had been, between dren became the most conspicuous personages in Salem. Of a sudden, the opportunity of fame, of whiocurer of the sore afflic- March 21. tions to Salem village and the country. Martha Cory, who, onby the 2d of June, the court was in session at Salem, making its first experiment on Bridget Bishoptions and objectors against the work doing at Salem. The Chap. XIX.} obstinate Sadducees, the wiook the defence of his friends; and he sent to Salem for an account strong Sept 20. enough to knoca fortnight after the last hanging of eight at Salem, the representatives of the people assembled; d, acted independently. When the court met at Salem, six women of 1693. Jan. Andover, at once ren more evidence against her than against any at Salem; but the common mind was disinthralled, and asable indignation of the people of Chap. XIX.} Salem village drove Parris from the place; Noyes re-[5 more...]
Naseby (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 1
train-bands, busy in exercising them. Fletcher advances, to assume command, ordering Bayard, of New York, to read his commission and the royal instructions. It is the fortune of our America, that if, at any moment, the happiness of a state depended on the will of Chap. XIX.} one man, that man was true to his duty. At the order of Captain Wadsworth, the drums began to roll, beating some of the old marches that may have been handed down from the veterans of Gustavus or the volunteers of Naseby. The petulant Fletcher commanded silence. I will not—such had been his words to the governor of Connecticut—I will not set my foot out of this colony, till I have seen his majesty's commission obeyed; and Bayard, of New York, once more began to read. Once more the drums beat. Silence! exclaimed Fletcher. Drum, drum, I say! shouted Wadsworth, adding, as he turned to the governor of New York, If I am interrupted again, I will make the sun shine through you in a moment. Fletcher was dau
Delaware (Delaware, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
rants which gave liberties to Pennsylvania, and extended them to Chap. XIX.} Delaware; the crimes of the dynasty banished to our country men of learning, virtue, anconstituted a separate government under Markham. Thus did the commonwealth of Delaware begin an independent existence. It was the act of its own citizens. Uncertin Fletcher, assuming power as governor for William and Mary, once more united Delaware to Pennsylvania. If no open opposition was made, yet some, who held commissioe framing of a new constitution was delayed by colonial jars. The counties of Delaware dreaded the loss of their independence by a union with the extending populatioted amidst the fruitless 1701. Aug. 21. wranglings between the delegates from Delaware and those from Pennsylvania. At last, the news was received that the English the governor of Pennsylvania was too feeble to limit the power of the people. Delaware had its own legislature, its own tribunals, its own subordinate executive offi
Delaware Bay (United States) (search for this): chapter 1
The spirit lived, and was openly displayed. It was soon said by a royal governor to the mixed races of legislators in the province, There are none of you but what are big with the privileges of Englishmen and Magna Charta. In the administration of the covetous and passionate 1692. Sept. Fletcher, a man of great mobility and feeble judgment, the people of New York were soon disciplined into more decided resistance. As to territory, the old hope of extending from Connecticut River to Delaware Bay revived; and, for the security of the central province, the command of the militia of New Jersey and Connecticut was, by a royal commission, conferred on Fletcher. An address was also sent to the king, representing Chap XIX.} the great cost of defending the frontiers, and requesting that the neighboring colonies might be compelled to contribute to the protection of Albany. In the necessity of common defence lay the root of the parliamentary attempt at taxation; for it created the des
Jamaica, L. I. (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
venue. Yet the people of Virginia still found methods of nourishing the spirit of independence. The permanent revenue was sure to be exhausted on the governor and his favorites; when additional supplies became necessary, the burgesses, as in Jamaica and in other colonies, claimed the right of nominating a treasurer of their own, subject to their orders, without further warrant from the governor. The statutes of Virginia show Hening, III. 92, 197, 476, 495. that the first assembly after threaching without a license from the governor; if the chief justice advised a special verdict,—the jury, composed, it is said, of Episcopalians, constituted themselves the judges of the law, and readily agreed on an acquittal. In like manner, at Jamaica, the church which the whole town had erected, was, by the connivance of Lord Cornbury, reserved exclusively for the Episcopalians—an injustice which was afterwards reversed in the colonial courts. Twice had Lord Cornbury dissolved the assembl
Geneva, N. Y. (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
brother-in-law to a king, whose service he had betrayed; the grandson of a prime minister; himself heir to an earldom,—Lord Cornbury, destitute of the virtues of the aristocracy, illustrated the worst form of its arrogance, joined to intellectual imbecility. Of the sagacity of the common mind, of its firmness, he knew nothing; of political power he had no conception, except as it emanates from the self — will of a superior; to him popular rights existed only as a condescension. Educated at Geneva, he yet loved Episcopacy, as a religion of state subordinate to executive power. And Chap. XIX.} now, at about forty years of age, with self — will and the pride of rank for his counsellors, without fixed principles, without perception of political truth, he stood among the plebeians of New Jersey and the mixed people of New York as their governor. The royalists anticipated his arrival with the incense 1702 of flattery; and the hospitality of the colony, which was not yet provoked to <
Whitehall (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
to be seen in my company during your sessions. One permanent change in the constitution was the fruit of this administration: the house originated its bills, and retained this right ever after. Fletcher would gladly have changed the law for yearlie delegates; for where, thought the royalist, is the hurt, if a good assemblie should be continued from one year to another? But the people saved their privilege by having elected an assembly of which Fletcher could give no good character at Whitehall, and which he could have no wish to continue. The assembly of the next year was still more im- 1694 practicable, having for its speaker David Lloyd, the keenest discoverer of grievances, and the most quiet and persevering of political scolds. If you will not levy money to make war,—such was the governor's May message,—yet I hope you will not refuse to feed the Chap XIX.} hungrie, and clothe the naked. The assembly was 1694 willing to give alms to the sufferers round Albany; but i
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