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first time called the continental army. In the arrangement of its committees and the distribution of business, it still sought to maintain a position, adverse alike to a surrender of liberty and to a declaration of independence; its policy was an armed defence, while waiting for a further answer from the king. On Wednesday the seventh of June, one of its resolutions spoke of the Twelve United Colonies, Georgia being not yet included; and the name implied an independent nation; but on the eighth, it tardily recommended to Massachusetts not to institute a new government, but to intrust the executive power to the elective council, until a governor of the king's appointment would consent to govern the colony according to its charter. For a province in a state of insurrection and war, a worse system could hardly have been devised. It had no unity, no power of vigorous action; it was recommended because it offered the fewest obstacles to an early renewal of allegiance to the British cr
June (search for this): chapter 38
and whatever might be the backwardness of others, he never admitted for a moment the thought of sheathing his sword or resigning his command, till his work of vindicating American liberty should be done. To his wife he unbosomed his inmost mind: I hope my undertaking this service is designed to answer some good purpose. I rely confidently on that Providence, which Chap. Xxxvii} 1775. June. has heretofore preserved and been bountiful to me. His acceptance at once changed the aspect of June. affairs. John Adams, looking with complacency upon the modest and virtuous, the amiable, generous, and brave general, as the choice of Massachusetts, said: This appointment will have a great effect in cementing the union of these colonies. The general is one of the most important characters of the world; upon him depend the liberties of America. All hearts turned with affection towards Washington. This is he who was raised up to be not the head of a party, but the father of his country.
June 1st (search for this): chapter 38
Chapter 37: Massachusetts Asks for George Washington as com-mander in chief. June 1—June 17, 1775. in obedience to the injunctions of Lord North and Chap. Xxxvii} 1775. June. Lord Dartmouth, who earnestly wished that the effort should be made to reconcile some one of the several colonial assemblies to their insidious offer, the first day of June, 1775, saw the house of burgesses of Virginia convened for the last time by a British governor. Peyton Randolph, the speaker, who had been attending as president the congress at Philadelphia, arrived at Williamsburg with an escort of independent companies of horse and foot, which eclipsed the pomp of the government, and in the eyes of the people raised the importance of the newly created continental power. The session was opened by a speech recommending accommodation on the narrow basis of the resolve which the king had accepted. But the moment chosen for the discussion was inopportune; Dunmore's menace to raise the standard o
June 2nd (search for this): chapter 38
ong before he could persuade himself, that the infatuation of the British ministry was so blind as to neglect them all. From Williamsburg, Jefferson repaired to Philadelphia; but before he arrived there, decisive communications had been received from Massachusetts. That colony still languished in anarchy, from which they were ready to relieve themselves, if they could but wring the consent of the continental congress. We hope, wrote they, in a letter which was read to that body on the second of June, you will favor us with your most explicit advice respecting the taking up and exercising the powers of civil government, which we think absolutely necessary for the salvation of our country. The regulation of the army was a subject of equal necessity. Uncounted and ungoverned, it was already in danger of vanishing like dew, or being dissolved by discontents. The incompetency of Ward for his station was observed by Joseph Warren, now president of the congress, by James Warren of Plymo
June 7th (search for this): chapter 38
ngaged, Dunmore received an express from Gage to acquaint him of his intention to publish a proclamation, proscribing Samuel Adams and Hancock; and fearing he might be seized and detained as a hostage, he suddenly, in the night following the seventh of June, withdrew from the capital, and went on board the Fowey man-of-war, at York. He thus left the Ancient Dominion in the undisputed possession of its own inhabitants, as effectually as if he had abdicated all power for the king; giving as a retribution of business, it still sought to maintain a position, adverse alike to a surrender of liberty and to a declaration of independence; its policy was an armed defence, while waiting for a further answer from the king. On Wednesday the seventh of June, one of its resolutions spoke of the Twelve United Colonies, Georgia being not yet included; and the name implied an independent nation; but on the eighth, it tardily recommended to Massachusetts not to institute a new government, but to int
June 12th (search for this): chapter 38
to his angry words, but when they had brought their deliberations to a close, they, on the twelfth of June, addressed to him as their final answer, that next to the possession of liberty, they shouloffered the fewest obstacles to an early renewal of allegiance to the British crown. The twelfth of June is memorable for the contrast between the manifest dispositions of America and of the Britiemain in arms about Boston, but every member of the provincial government Chap. Xxxvii} 1775. June 12. and of the continental congress. In the same breath he established martial law throughout Mas independence, but only at freedom from taxaation by authority of parliament. On that same twelfth of June, the general congress made its first appeal to the people of the twelve united colonies by to keep a fast on one and the same day, when they were to recognise king Chap. Xxxvii} 1775. June 12. George the Third as their rightful sovereign, and to look up to the supreme and universal supe
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ert riflemen, of whom six were to be formed in Pennsylvania, two in Maryland, and two in Virginia. Then on the fifteenth day of June, it was voted June 15. to appoint a general. Johnson, of Maryland, nominated George Washington; and as he had bJune 15. to appoint a general. Johnson, of Maryland, nominated George Washington; and as he had been brought forward at the particular request of the people in New England, he was elected by ballot unanimously. Washington was then forty-three years of age. In stature he a little exceeded six feet; his limbs were sinewy and well proportioned;cupation out of doors, and his rigid temperance; so that few equalled him in strength of arm or power of Chap. Xxxvii} June 15. endurance. His complexion was florid; his hair dark brown; his head in its shape perfectly round. His broad nostrils race. When the frontiers on the west became disturbed, he at nineteen was commissioned an adju- Chap. Xxxvii} 1775. June 15. tant-general with the rank of major. At twenty-one he went as the envoy of Virginia to the council of Indian chiefs on
June 16th (search for this): chapter 38
olunteers, or of men to be enlisted for less than seven months. There were no experienced officers, and no methods projected for obtaining them. Washington saw it all. He was in the enjoyment of fame; he wished not to forfeit the esteem of his fellow-men; and his eye glistened with a tear, as he said in confidence to Patrick Henry on occasion of his appointment: This day will be the commencement of the decline of my reputation. But this consideration did not make him waver. On the sixteenth of June, he appeared in his place in congress, and after refusing all pay beyond his expenses, he spoke with unfeigned modesty: As the Chap. Xxxvii} 1755. June. congress desire it, I will enter upon the momentous duty, and exert every power I possess in their service, and for the support of the glorious cause. But I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room, that I this day declare, with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with. Th
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on saw it all. He was in the enjoyment of fame; he wished not to forfeit the esteem of his fellow-men; and his eye glistened with a tear, as he said in confidence to Patrick Henry on occasion of his appointment: This day will be the commencement of the decline of my reputation. But this consideration did not make him waver. On the sixteenth of June, he appeared in his place in congress, and after refusing all pay beyond his expenses, he spoke with unfeigned modesty: As the Chap. Xxxvii} 1755. June. congress desire it, I will enter upon the momentous duty, and exert every power I possess in their service, and for the support of the glorious cause. But I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room, that I this day declare, with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with. The next day, the delegates of all the colonies resolved unanimously in congress to maintain and assist him, and adhere to him, the said George Washington, E
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ed to England. The next year, when he was but four and twenty, the great esteem in which he was held in Virginia, and his real merit, led the lieutenant governor of Maryland to request that he might be commissionated and appointed second in command of the army designed to march to the Ohio; and Shirley, the commander in chief, heard the proposal with great satisfaction and pleasure, for he knew no provincial officer upon the continent to whom he would so readily give it as to Washington. In 1758 he acted under Forbes as a brigadier, and but for him that general would never have been able to cross the mountains. Courage was so natural to him, that it was hardly spoken of to his praise; no one ever at any moment of his life discovered in him the least shrinking in danger; and he had a hardihood of daring which escaped notice, because it was so enveloped by superior calmness and wisdom. He was as cheerful as he was spirited, frank and communicative in the society of friends, fond
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