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March 5th (search for this): chapter 29
than tyranny. Hutchinson to Col. Williams. The proposal for a General Congress was deferred to the next June; but the Committees of Correspondence were to prepare the way for it. Hutchinson to Dartmouth, 23 March. A circular letter explained why Massachusetts had been under the Chap. LII.} 1774. March necessity of proceeding so far of itself, and entreated for its future guidance the benefit of the councils of the whole country. The firmness was contagious. Hancock, on the fifth of March, spoke to a crowded audience in Boston: Permit me to suggest a general Congress of deputies from the several Houses of Assembly on the Continent, as the most effectual method of establishing a union for the security of our rights and liberties. Remember, he continued, from whom you sprang. Not only pray, but act; if necessary, fight and even die for the prosperity of our Jerusalem; and as he pointed out Samuel Adams, the vast multitude seemed to promise that in all succeeding times the
March 7th (search for this): chapter 29
ompare Rochford to Stormont, 20 May, 1774; Burke to New-York, 6 April. they were persuaded that there was no middle way, that procrastination and irresolution had produced numberless evils, but never yet cured one; Compare Stormont to Rochford, 23 March, 1774. that the American Continent would not interpose to shield Boston from the necessity of submission. Arthur Lee to S. Adams, 18 March, 1774; Franklin to Cushing, 2 April, 1774; and Shelburne to Chatham, 3 Feb. 1774. On the seventh of March Dartmouth and North presented to the two Houses a message from the King. Nothing, said Lord North, can be done to reestablish peace without additional powers from Parliament.—The question now brought to issue, said Rice, on moving the Address, which was to Chap. LII.} 1774. March pledge Parliament to the exertion of every means in its power, is, whether the Colonies are or are not the Colonies of Great Britain. Nugent, now Lord Clare, entreated that there might be no divided counse
May 20th, 1774 AD (search for this): chapter 29
mer moderation and good humor, their affection will revive. They wish for nothing more than a permanent union with her upon the condition of equal liberty. This is all they have been contending for; and nothing short of this will or ought to satisfy them. Such was the ultimatum of America, sent by one illustrious son of Boston for the guidance of another. But the Ministry would not be warned. The sense of the English people was manifestly with them; Compare Rochford to Stormont, 20 May, 1774; Burke to New-York, 6 April. they were persuaded that there was no middle way, that procrastination and irresolution had produced numberless evils, but never yet cured one; Compare Stormont to Rochford, 23 March, 1774. that the American Continent would not interpose to shield Boston from the necessity of submission. Arthur Lee to S. Adams, 18 March, 1774; Franklin to Cushing, 2 April, 1774; and Shelburne to Chatham, 3 Feb. 1774. On the seventh of March Dartmouth and North presen
March 14th (search for this): chapter 29
America. The press was also employed to rouse the national pride, till the zeal of the English people for maintaining English supremacy became equal to the passions of the Ministry. Even the merchants and manufacturers were made to believe that their command of the American market depended on the enforcement of the British claim of authority. It was, therefore, to a Parliament and people as unanimous as when in Grenville's day they sanctioned the Stamp Act, that Lord North, on the fourteenth of March, reserving the measures of a more permanent character, opened the first branch of his American plan, for the instant punishment of Boston. The privilege of its harbor was to be discontinued; and the port closed against all commerce, not merely till it should have indemnified the East India Company, but until the King should be satisfied that for the future it would obey the laws. He invited all branches of the Government, all political parties, alike those who denied and those who a
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