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Rockingham, N. C. (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
the country. See Grafton's own account of the incident in his Autobiography. On the resignation of Grafton, Conway, with his accustomed indecision, remained in office, but seized the occasion to escape from the care of America De Guerchy, the French Ambassador at London, to Choiseul, 22 May, 1766. to Chap. XXV.} 1766. May. the Northern Department. There appeared a great and general backwardness Grafton's Autobiography. to embark with Rockingham. Lord North Lord North to Rockingham, 24 May, 1766. had hardly accepted a lucrative post, before he changed his mind and excused himself. Lord Howe would not serve unless under Pitt. Lord Hardwicke's Memorial. Albemarle's Memoirs of Rockingham and his Contemporaries, i. 335. Lord Hardwicke also refused the place left vacant by Grafton; so did his brother, Charles Yorke; and so did Egmont; till at last it fell to the husband of Conway's step-daughter, the liberal, self-confident Duke of Richmond; who added grace and court
Connecticut (Connecticut, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
t retirement for their relief. But as to compensating the sufferers by the late disturbances, it upheld its right of deliberating freely, and would only pro- Chap. XXV.} 1766. June. mise at its next session to act as should then appear just and reasonable. House to the Governor, 25 June—Governor to House, 27 June the—House to Governor, 28 June,—all in Bradford. Also, Bernard's Observations, in Prior Documents, 107. Further: Letters from Ber-nard of 29 June, and 19 July, 1766. Connecticut, Gov. Pitkin to Secretary Conway, 4 Aug., 1766. overjoyed at the repeal of the Stamp Act and applauding its connection with Great Britain, elected as its Governor the discreet and patriotic William Pitkin, in place of the loyalist Fitch. The Legislature of South Carolina, retaining, like Georgia, Sir James Wright (nephew to Lord Chancellor, Northington) to the Secretary, 23 July, 1766. its avowed sentiments on internal taxation, marked its loyalty by granting every requisition, eve<
Fort Bedford (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
gham suggested a coalition Duke of Richmond's Journal in Albemarle, i. 349. with the Duke of Bedford. In saloons, female politicians, at their game of loo, divined the ruin of the Ministry, and were zealots for governing the colonies by the hand of power. Rigby to Bedford, in Bedford Cor., 4 June, 1766. In America half suppressed murmurs mingled with the general transport. Arbitrary Bedford Cor., 4 June, 1766. In America half suppressed murmurs mingled with the general transport. Arbitrary taxation by Parliament Philalethes in Holt's Gazette, No. 1218, 8 May, 1766. began to be compared with restrictions on industry and trade, and the latter were found to be Chap. XXV.} 1766. May.74. Concurrently, Rigby, as the leader of the Bedford June. party, Rigby to the Duke of Bedford, 4 June, 1766, in Bedford Correspondence, III. 336. on the third day of June, proposed in the B railed mercilessly at the Ministers, in a mixed strain of wit, oratory, and abuse; Rigby to Bedford, 4 June, 1766. so that, notwithstanding a spirited speech from Conway, and a negative to the mo
Haverhill (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
2 June, 1766. he added, The fate of the Province is put in a scale, which is to rise or fall according to your present conduct. The Requisition Bernard in Bradford, 82. is founded upon a Resolution of the House of Commons, he continued, employing the word which that body, after debate, as well as Conway, had purposely avoid perpetual watchfulness and total Chap. XXV.} 1766. June. ruin. The free exercise of our undoubted privileges, replied the House, Answer of the House, in Bradford 88. can never, with any color of reason, be adjudged an abuse of our liberty. We have strictly adhered to the directions of our Charter and the laws of the landext session to act as should then appear just and reasonable. House to the Governor, 25 June—Governor to House, 27 June the—House to Governor, 28 June,—all in Bradford. Also, Bernard's Observations, in Prior Documents, 107. Further: Letters from Ber-nard of 29 June, and 19 July, 1766. Connecticut, Gov. Pitkin to Secretar<
England (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 2
The crisis How Great Britain Estranged America. Chapter 25: The Charter of Massachusetts in peril.—the fall of the Rockingham Administration. May—July, 1766. The satisfaction of America was not suffered to con- Chap. XXV.} 1766. My, 1766. are hasty in expressing their gratitude, if the repeal of the Stamp Act is not at least a tacit compact that Great Britain will never again tax us; and it advised the different Assemblies, without mentioning the proceedings of Parliament, tPitkin to Secretary Conway, 4 Aug., 1766. overjoyed at the repeal of the Stamp Act and applauding its connection with Great Britain, elected as its Governor the discreet and patriotic William Pitkin, in place of the loyalist Fitch. The Legislaturo touch at some port in England; and they prayed for modifications of the Navigation Act, which would equally benefit Great Britain and themselves. South Carolina Committee of Correspondence to Garth, a Member of Parliament, their Agent, 2 July,
Scotland (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 2
e unprecedented in its character and unreasonable in its amount; yet in the exercise of the right of free deliberation, every thing asked for was voted, except Chap. XXV.} 1766. June. such articles as were not provided in Europe for British troops which were in barracks. The General and the Governor united in accepting the grant; but in reporting the affair, the wellmeaning, indolent Moore reflected the opinions of the army, whose officers still compared the Americans to the rebels of Scotland, and wished them a defeat like that of Culloden. Leake's Life of John Lamb. My message, said he at the end of his narrative, is treated merely as a Requisition made here; and they have carefully avoided the least mention of the Act on which it is founded. It is my opinion, that every Act of Parliament, when not backed by a sufficient power to enforce it, will meet with the same fate. Gov. Moore to Conway, 20 June, 1766. From Boston, Bernard, without any good reason, chimed in wit
Arthur Lee (search for this): chapter 2
Hutchinson to his son, then in England, 29 May, 1766. of the ablest friends of the people in the board. John Adams: Diary in Works, II. 204. He had the legal right to do so; and the Legislature submitted without a murmur. Samuel Adams to Arthur Lee, 19 April, 1771. Here the altercation should have terminated. But on the following day, Bernard—an abject coward, See the Journal of Captain Conner of the Romney, and the letters of the Romney, and the letters Commodore Hood, &c., &c., Private Diary. Works, II. 204. fit to express their indignation. Bernard's speeches fell on the ear of Samuel Adams, as not less infamous and irritating than the worst that ever came from a Stuart to the English Parliament; Samuel Adams to Arthur Lee, 19 April, 1771. and with sombre joy he called the Province happy in having for its Governor, one who left to the people no option, but between perpetual watchfulness and total Chap. XXV.} 1766. June. ruin. The free exercise of our undoub
Rutledge (search for this): chapter 2
and applauding its connection with Great Britain, elected as its Governor the discreet and patriotic William Pitkin, in place of the loyalist Fitch. The Legislature of South Carolina, retaining, like Georgia, Sir James Wright (nephew to Lord Chancellor, Northington) to the Secretary, 23 July, 1766. its avowed sentiments on internal taxation, marked its loyalty by granting every requisition, even for doubtful purposes; at the same time, it asked for the pictures of Lynch, Gadsden, and Rutledge; and on the motion of Rawlins Lowndes, remitted a thousand pounds towards a statue of Pitt. Still they felt keenly that they were undeservedly distinguished from their happier fellow-subjects in England by the unconstitutional tenure of their judges during the King's pleasure. They complained, too, that ships, laden with their rice for ports north of Cape Finisterre, were compelled, on their outward and return voyage, to touch at some port in England; and they prayed for modifications of
Northington (search for this): chapter 2
le an event. The madness and distractions of America have demanded the attention of the Supreme Legislature, and the colony Charters have been considered and declared by judges The allusion is probably to the Speech of the Lord Chancellor, Northington, in the House of Lords, February 8, 1766. of the realm, inconsistent, and actually forfeited by the audacious and unpardonable Resolves of subordinate Assemblies. This regulation must no longer be trusted to accidental obedience. If I shouldts connection with Great Britain, elected as its Governor the discreet and patriotic William Pitkin, in place of the loyalist Fitch. The Legislature of South Carolina, retaining, like Georgia, Sir James Wright (nephew to Lord Chancellor, Northington) to the Secretary, 23 July, 1766. its avowed sentiments on internal taxation, marked its loyalty by granting every requisition, even for doubtful purposes; at the same time, it asked for the pictures of Lynch, Gadsden, and Rutledge; and on the
Philalethes (search for this): chapter 2
taining from a future Administration. Once, to delay his fall, Rockingham suggested a coalition Duke of Richmond's Journal in Albemarle, i. 349. with the Duke of Bedford. In saloons, female politicians, at their game of loo, divined the ruin of the Ministry, and were zealots for governing the colonies by the hand of power. Rigby to Bedford, in Bedford Cor., 4 June, 1766. In America half suppressed murmurs mingled with the general transport. Arbitrary taxation by Parliament Philalethes in Holt's Gazette, No. 1218, 8 May, 1766. began to be compared with restrictions on industry and trade, and the latter were found to be Chap. XXV.} 1766. May. the more slavish thing of the two, and the more inconsistent with civil liberty. The protesting Lords had affirmed, that if the provinces might refuse obedience to one statute, they might to all,—that there was no abiding place between unconditional universal submission and independence. Alarmed that such an alternative should
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