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Connecticut (Connecticut, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
h in the manner most easy to the people. W. S. Johnson to the Governor of Connecticut, 16 May, 1767. On the thirteenth day of May, Townshend came to the Housecandor and the air of a man of business. Exculpating alike Pennsylvania and Connecticut, he named as the delinquent Colonies, Massachusetts, which had invaded the Kthe Speaker, and you may be assured there are none present. Yet Johnson, of Connecticut, had braved the danger of an arrest, and sat in the gallery to record the in Georgia Prior Documents, 130; Walpole, III. 40; W. S. Johnson to Gov. of Connecticut, 9 June, 1767. had refused compliance with the Billeting Act; and for a Coloould not escape the penetration of Jonathan Trumbull, the Deputy Governor of Connecticut. He was a perfect model of the virtues of a rural magistrate, never weary owithout inconvenience to his Administration. W. S. Johnson to the Gov. of Connecticut, 13 July, 1767; Garth to Committee of South Carolina, 5 July, 1767. Hencefor
Worcester (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
heart disapproved of the measure which from personal motives he advocated. The perfidious advice would be harmless, if England would only respect the Charter it had granted, and which nearly a century's possession had confirmed. There remained no grounds of imminent variance except the Navigation Acts, the Billeting Act, the Acts restraining industry, and the Slave Trade. To the latter Virginia led the opposition. Towns Chap. XXIX.} 1767. April. at the North, especially Worcester, in Massachusetts, protested against the system; but opinion through the country was divided; and complaints of the grievance had not been made in concert. The restraints on some manufactures, especially of wool and iron, were flagrant violations of natural rights; but the laws, so tyrannical in their character, were not of recent date, and as they related to products of industry which it was still the interest of the people to import, were in a great degree inoperative and unobserved. Moore
Reedy River (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
, and 6 June, 1767. he, at the cost of an impoverished and suffering Colony, Compare Martin's History of North Carolina, II. 228. marched a company of riflemen through the woods, Tryon to Secretary of State, 8 July, 1767. to the banks of Reedy River. The Beloved Men of the Cherokees met him on the way. The Man above, said their Orator, is head of all He made the land and none other, and he told me that the land I stand on is mine, and all that is in it. True it is, the Deer and the Buffaut; but land lasts always. Yet the land is given when the line is run. Jud's Friend's Talk in reply to Tryon, at Tyger River Camp, 2 June, 1767. As he spoke, he laid down a string of beads on the course of the border. From the Elm Tree on Reedy River, the frontier was marked as far as to an Oak on the top of the Mountains which rise over the sources of the Pacolet and the Broad; and thence it was agreed that it should run directly to Chiswell's Lead Mines on the New River branch of the Kan
Walpole (New Hampshire, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
quency; Israel Mauduit to Hutchinson, 11 April, 1767. and receding from his old opinions, he justified his change. Walpole's Memoirs, II. 448. Grafton said well, that the present question was too serious for faction, and promised that the Miniohnson's Journal, 10 April, 1767; De Guerchy to Choiseul, 11 and 13 April, 1767; Horace Walpole to Mann, 17 April, 1767; Walpole's Memoirs, II. 454. spoke in the same strain, descanting upon the folly and wickedness of the American incendiaries, andas present, and from W. S. Johnson, who got reports from Whately and from Richard Jackson, and from Trecothick. Compare Walpole's Memoirs, III. 28; Cavendish Debates, i. 38, 39, 213; Franklin's Writings, VII. 333. with professions of candor and the's Autobiography. but he obtained from him the declaration, that he would not retire except by his majesty's command. Walpole's Memoirs, III. 53. At a second interview in June, The Duke of Grafton in his autobiography, does not carefully d
Georgia (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
ement of a statesman; reasoning about the debates of free legislative Assemblies as he would about the questioning of military orders; entering complaints against Georgia, Gage to Shelburne, 7 April, 1767. South Carolina, and other Colonies, and holding up New-York as preeminent in opposition. The letters of Moore, who had beenthe heart of a savage. The Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina was a man of sense; but his moderation was soon to draw upon him a rebuke. Sir James Wright, in Georgia, and Carlton, in Quebec, were strenuous supporters of power. The attention of the British Government and of Parliament was drawn chiefly towards Massachusetts, ot retracted, would force the Colonies to unite for Independence. The bitterness against America grew with its indulgence. On the twenty-first, news came that Georgia Prior Documents, 130; Walpole, III. 40; W. S. Johnson to Gov. of Connecticut, 9 June, 1767. had refused compliance with the Billeting Act; and for a Colony, th
Cavendish (Vermont, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
od of colonial reform. A good system would have Chap XXIX} 1767. May. been a consummate work of deliberative wisdom; the principle of despotic government acted with more speed and uniformity, having passion for its interpreter, and a statesman like Townshend, to execute its impulses. That statesman had no ear except for complaints against the Colonies, and for men like Paxton, who blinded him to every thing but what suited their cupidity. It was his purpose Compare Trecothick in Cavendish, i. 212. to effect a thorough revolution in colonial government, and to lay the foundation of a vast American revenue. The American merchants and friends to the Colonies took the utmost pains to moderate resentments and to extinguish jealousies. Their committee, with Trecothick at its head, interposed with Townshend;. but he answered: I do not in the least doubt the right of Parliament to tax the Colonies internally; I know no difference between internal or external taxes; yet, since t
West Indies (search for this): chapter 6
it of the Act. A slight modification, leaving some option to Chap. XXIX.} 1767. April. the Colonies, would have remedied this disagreement. The Navigation Acts were a perpetual source of just and ever increasing discontent. But no public body in America had denied their validity; nor was there any reluctance to subordinate American commerce to the general interests of the empire; the relaxations which America most desired were very moderate, relating chiefly to intercourse with the West Indies, and the free export of such of its products as Great Britain would not receive. The illicit trade was partly owing to useless laws, but more to the prevailing corruption among the servants of the crown. No practical question existed, except that which Otis had raised, on the legality of the Writs of Assistance first issued by Hutchinson; and while it was even suggested by one person at least to construe some reported declarations of Otis Lansdowne House Ms., indorsed, Remarks on the
Rockingham, Vt. (Vermont, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
nd for a Colony, that had been established at the public expense, to question the will of Parliament was held to be unexampled insolence. The Secretary at War, therefore, as if to ensure confusion, introduced a Bill, extending the obnoxious law a year beyond the time when it would have expired by its own limitation. The moment was inviting to the Opposition. Raising some trivial questions on the form in which the amnesty Act of Massachusetts had been disallowed, the united factions of Rockingham, Bedford and Temple on one division left the Ministry a majority of but six, and on another of but three. De Guerchy to Choiseul, 26 May, 1767. On both these occasions the King made two of his brothers vote with the Ministry; of which the dissolution would have left him at the mercy of the coalition. He wished to enforce the absolute authority of Parliament in America, and to consummate his victory over the aristocracy in England. For the one he needed to dismiss Shelburne; Cha
Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
h arrived, that in one of their messages the Representatives of Massachusetts had given a formal defiance to Parliament, as well as encourageter to Hutchinson of 11 April, 1767. On the tenth of April, Massachusetts was selected for censure; and Bedford, Bedford's Journal forlored. In the six hours debate, the resistance of New-York and Massachusetts Benj. Franklin to Ross, London, 11 April, 1767; W. S. JohnsoBritish Government and of Parliament was drawn chiefly towards Massachusetts, where Bernard, Bernard to Shelburne, 6 May, 1767. Hutchinsot all but in the ordinary course of business. The People of Massachusetts, seeing a disposition to mar its Charter, and use military powein any one Colony had more uniformly shown loyalty than that of Massachusetts. Hutchinson perceived this so clearly, that he at heart disapp some trivial questions on the form in which the amnesty Act of Massachusetts had been disallowed, the united factions of Rockingham, Bedford
Bedford, N. Y. (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
ce first issued by Hutchinson; and while it was even suggested by one person at least to construe some reported declarations of Otis Lansdowne House Ms., indorsed, Remarks on the Present State of America, April, 1767, from Mr. Morgan; Compare Bedford's Opinion, in Lyttelton to Temple, 25 Nov. 1767, in Phillimore's Life and Correspondence of Lyttelton, 743. as proofs of treason, and to bring him to trial in England on an impeachment by the House of Commons, the Attorney and Solicitor General he time when it would have expired by its own limitation. The moment was inviting to the Opposition. Raising some trivial questions on the form in which the amnesty Act of Massachusetts had been disallowed, the united factions of Rockingham, Bedford and Temple on one division left the Ministry a majority of but six, and on another of but three. De Guerchy to Choiseul, 26 May, 1767. On both these occasions the King made two of his brothers vote with the Ministry; of which the dissolut
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