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Jasper, Tenn. (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
Great Britain. Prohibitions chap. X.} 1764. June. of trade are neither equitable nor just; but the power of taxing is the grand barrier of British liberty. If this is once broken down, all is lost. In a word, say they, representing truly the point of resistance at which America was that year ready to halt, a people may be free, and tolerably happy, without a particular branch of trade; but without the privilege of assessing their own taxes they can be neither. Letter of the House to Jasper the Memorial is declared to have Mauduit. At the same time, Otis, Cushing, Thacher, Gray, and Sheafe, as the committee for corresponding with the other colonies, sent a circular letter to them all, exposing the danger that menaced their most essential rights, and desiring their united assistance. Thus the legislature adopted the principles and the line of conduct which the town of Boston, at the im pulse of Samuel Adams, had recommended. In the Rights of the Colonists, by Otis, the I
Montreal (Canada) (search for this): chapter 10
ess of Westminster Hall were introduced into the impoverished province; and English justice and English offices seemed to the poor Canadians an ingenious device to drain them of the little substance which was still left to them. Carlton to Shelburne, 24 Dec. 1767. In the one hundred and ten rural parishes there were but nineteen Protestant families. The rest of the Protestants were a few half-pay officers, disbanded soldiers, traders, mechanics, and publicans, who resided in Quebec and Montreal, most of them fol- chap. X.} 1764. Sept. lowers of the army, of low education, all with their fortunes to make, and little solicitous about the means; Murray to Shelburne, 30 August, 1766: I report them to be, in general, the most immoral collection of men I ever knew. so that, as the Catholics were disfranchised, magistrates were to be made, and juries composed from about four hundred and fifty suttlers and traders— men of narrow ideas, ignorant, and intoxicated with unexpected power.
Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
manity abound in affections! Whom the Indians spared they loved! They had not taken the little ones and the captives into their wigwams without receiving them into their hearts, and adopting them into their tribes and families. To part with them now was anguish to the red men; they shed torrents of tears; they entreated of the white men to show kindness to those whom they restored. From day to day they visited them in the camp; they gave them corn and skins. As the English returned to Pittsburg, they followed to hunt for them, and bring them provisions. A young Mingo would not be torn from a young woman of Virginia, whom he had taken as his wife. Some of the children who had been carried away young had learned to love their savage friends, and wept at leaving them. Some of the captives would not come of themselves, and were not brought away but in bonds. Who can fathom the mysteries of woman's love? Some, who were not permitted to remain, clung to their dusky lovers at part
Rochefort (France) (search for this): chapter 10
vril, 1764. in April, 1764, for the transfer of the island of New-Orleans and all Louisiana to Spain. And he did it without mental reserve. He knew that the time was coming when the whole colonial system would be changed; and in the same year, Choiseul to Durand, 15 Sept. 1766. Les idees sur l'amerique, soit militaires, soit politiques, sont infiniment changes depuis 30 ans. while he was still minister of the marine, he sent de Pontleroy, a lieutenant in the navy of the Department of Rochefort, to travel through America, under the name of Beaulieu, in the guise of an Acadian wanderer; and while England was taxing America by act of parliament, France was already counting its steps towards independence. Depeche de M. le Cte. de Guerchy à M. le Due de Choiseul, 19 Oct. 1766. The world was making progress; restrictive laws and the oppression of industry were passing away, not less than the inquisition and the oppression of free thought. Every thing that I see, wrote Voltaire
Rhode Island (Rhode Island, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
ikely to shake the power and independence of Great Britain. The people of Rhode Island, headed by Stephen Hopkins, the governor of their own choice, proceeded morer liberties with spirit, and devise a method of union. The proposition of Rhode Island was received with joy by the assembly of Pennsylvania. The complaints of thlaced in him unabated confidence, and conforming to the happy suggestions of Rhode Island, they proceeded to an act which in its consequences was to influence the wortime for this business was now come The two republics of Connecticut and Rhode Island were to be dissolved; the government of New-York extended as far as Connecti on the king. Rev. Dr. S. Johnson to Archbishop Seeker, 20 Sept. 1764. In Rhode Island also, the few royalists made known in England their wish for a change of gov5, in Providence Gazette of 23 Feb. 1765. Compare Hutchinson to a friend in Rhode Island, 16 March, 1765, in Hutchinson's Letter Book, II. 132. The ministry, in
Lake Huron (Wisconsin, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
Half way from Buffalo to Erie, he was met by deputations from the Shawnees, the Delawares, the Hurons of Sandusky, and the Five Nations of the Scioto valley, desiring that the chain of friendship might be brightened; and he settled a treaty with the nations dwelling between Lake Erie and the Ohio. At Detroit, Bradstreet was welcomed by the Sept. Hurons with every expression of joy and respect. A detachment was sent to take possession of Michilimackinac, and a vessel found its way into Lake Huron. On the seventh of September, great numbers of Indians, especially Ottawas and Chippewas, assembled at Bradstreet's tent, and seated themselves on the ground for a Congress. The Ottawas and Chippewas on that day cashiered all their old-chiefs, and the young warriors shook hands with the English as with brothers. Mante, 517-524. The Miamis disclosed their desire that all resentment should be laid aside, and chap. X.} 1764. Sept asked for peace, in the names of their wives and childre
Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
nothing was done, though Jackson wrote to Hutchinson of Massachusetts for his opinion on the rights of the colonists and the ice. Ibid., 80. Such were the views of Otis, sent by Massachusetts to its agent in London, to be improved as he might judgampshire, and annexed to New-York the country north of Massachusetts and west of Connecticut river. Board of Trade to Lie chap. X.} 1764. Oct. act even the laws of trade. Like Massachusetts, they elected a committee of correspondence. The colones, by the arbitrary exertion of the prerogative. In Massachusetts, Bernard was eager to carry into effect a new arrangemet of New-York extended as far as Connecticut river; and Massachusetts was to embrace the country from the Connecticut river tnd to the Penobscot, and yet another to the St. John's. Massachusetts, he continued, would then afford a fine opportunity foror did Bernard forget to remind Lord Halifax, that once Massachusetts had for a season established a stamp act. Bernard to
Stratford (California, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
thority upon a rock. Bernard to Halifax, 8 November, 1764. If the new arrangement were to be conducted by the king in parliament, the consent of the colonies would not be necessary, and the business might soon be brought to a conclusion. Nor did Bernard forget to remind Lord Halifax, that once Massachusetts had for a season established a stamp act. Bernard to Halifax, 12 November, 1764. In Connecticut, the aged Johnson, then enjoying sweet retirement in the lovely village of Stratford, familiar with the royalists of New-York, and the acknowledged organ of the Episcopalians of the north, thought it no sin to pray to God that the mon- chap. X.} 1764. Dec. strously popular constitution of Connecticut might be changed; that the government at home might make but one work of bringing all the colonies under one form of government, Rev. Dr. S. Johnson to Benjamin Franklin, November, 1764. confidently hoping that the first news in the spring would be, bishops for America, a
Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
ch, with other invaluable papers, were communicated to me by my friend, the present Bishop of Pennsylvania. exclaimed one citizen; I will drink no wine, echoed another, angry that wine must pay a new proprietaries, believing it could be done without detriment to the established privileges of Pennsylvania. A petition for the change was adopted by a large majority; but when in summer the policy te arose, in which Franklin took the lead. It was argued, that, during the war the people of Pennsylvania had granted more than their proportion, and were ever ready to grant sums suitable to their angland with the sacred charge of the liberties of his country in his custody. At that time Pennsylvania was employing her men and her treasure to defend the West. To secure a firm peace with the ular army was feeble, and could furnish scarcely five hundred men, most of them Highlanders. Pennsylvania, at her own charge, added a thousand, and Virginia contributed a corps of volunteers. These
Lake Erie (United States) (search for this): chapter 10
prisoners, and ratified a peace. Bradstreet had been ordered by General Gage to give peace to all such nations of Indians as would sue for it, and to chastise those that continued in arms; but none remained in arms. Half way from Buffalo to Erie, he was met by deputations from the Shawnees, the Delawares, the Hurons of Sandusky, and the Five Nations of the Scioto valley, desiring that the chain of friendship might be brightened; and he settled a treaty with the nations dwelling between Lake Erie and the Ohio. At Detroit, Bradstreet was welcomed by the Sept. Hurons with every expression of joy and respect. A detachment was sent to take possession of Michilimackinac, and a vessel found its way into Lake Huron. On the seventh of September, great numbers of Indians, especially Ottawas and Chippewas, assembled at Bradstreet's tent, and seated themselves on the ground for a Congress. The Ottawas and Chippewas on that day cashiered all their old-chiefs, and the young warriors shoo
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