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February 8th (search for this): chapter 22
Chapter 62: The example of the Carolinas and Rhode Island. February—May, 1776. The American congress needed an impulse from Chap. LXII.} 1776. Feb. the resolute spirit of some colonial convention, and an example of a government springing wholly from the people. Massachusetts had followed closely the forms of its charter; New Hampshire had deviated as little as possible from its former system; neither of the two had appointed a chief executive officer. On the eighth of February the convention of South Carolina, by Drayton, their president, presented their thanks to John Rutledge and Henry Middleton for their services in the American congress, which had made its appeal to the King of kings, established a navy, treasury, and general post-office, exercised control over commerce, and granted to colonies permission to create civil institutions, independent of the regal authority. The next day Gadsden arrived, and in like manner heard the voice of public gratitude; in retur
April 11th (search for this): chapter 22
umerous bondsmen of a different race; along the sea an unprotected coast, indented by bays, and inlets, and rivers. But their spirit rose with danger: in words penned by Drayton and Cotesworth Pinckney, the assembly condemned the British plan of sending commissioners to treat with the several colonies, as a fraudulent scheme for subverting their liberties by negotiations, and resolved to communicate with the court of Great Britain only through the continental congress. When, on the eleventh of April, they closed their session, Rutledge, knowing well that the wished-for accommodation with Great Britain could never be obtained, and willing to sacrifice every temporal happiness to establish and perpetuate the freedom of Carolina, cheered them on towards the consciousness of having formed an independent republic. On my part, said he, a most solemn oath has been taken for the faithful discharge of my duty; on yours, a solemn assurance has been given to support me therein. Thu
1775 AD (search for this): chapter 22
ission, they established a constitution for South Carolina. The executive power was intrusted to a president, who was endowed with a veto on legislation, and who was also commander in chief; the congress then in session resolved itself into a general assembly till their successors should be elected by the people in the following October; the numerous and arbitrary representation which had prevailed originally in the committee of 1774 and had been continued in the first and second congress of 1775, without respect to numbers or property, was confirmed by the new instrument, so that Charleston kept the right of sending thirty members; the old laws prescribing the qualifications of the electors and Chap. LXII.} 1776. Mar. the elected were continued in force; a legislative council of thirteen was elected by the general assembly out of their own body; the general assembly and the legislative council elected jointly by ballot the president and vice president; the privy council of seven wa
1776 AD (search for this): chapter 22
esenting in a yellow field a rat- Chap. LXII.} 1776. Feb. tlesnake of thirteen full-grown rattles, sand pounds of paper money, voted Chap. LXII.} 1776. Mar. an additional sum of seven hundred and fiualifications of the electors and Chap. LXII.} 1776. Mar. the elected were continued in force; a leortunes, the peace of their fami- Chap. LXII.} 1776. Apr. lies, and their lives, from sympathy withat if any persons in your several Chap. LXII.} 1776. Apr. parishes and districts are still strangerther knowing nor regarding conse- Chap. LXII.} 1776. Apr. quences; but trusting that the Almighty ahich were known to be on the way, Chap. LXII.} 1776. Apr. the mechanics and laborers of Charleston,lphia. The moderate men, as they Chap. LXII.} 1776. May. were called, who desired a reconciliatio. The measure was carried in the Chap. LXII.} 1776. May. upper house unanimously, and in the houss intelligence was received, that Chap. LXII.} 1776. May. the works erected by the rebels on Sulli[4 more...]
March 21st (search for this): chapter 22
llion one hundred and twenty thousand pounds of paper money, voted Chap. LXII.} 1776. Mar. an additional sum of seven hundred and fifty thousand pounds. A strong party in the provincial congress, under the lead of Rawlins Lowndes, endeavored to postpone the consideration of the form of government reported by the committee; but the nearness of danger would not admit of delay; and the clauses that were most resisted, were adopted by a vote of about four to three. But when, on the twenty first of March, they received the act of parliament of the preceding December, which authorized the capture of American vessels and property, they gave up the hope of reconciliation; and on the twenty sixth, professing a desire of accommodation with Great Britain, even though traduced and treated as rebels, asserting the good of the people to be the origin and end of all government, and enumerating with clearness and fulness the unwarrantable acts of the British parliament, the implacability of the
1774 AD (search for this): chapter 22
y of the king, and the violence of the officers bearing his commission, they established a constitution for South Carolina. The executive power was intrusted to a president, who was endowed with a veto on legislation, and who was also commander in chief; the congress then in session resolved itself into a general assembly till their successors should be elected by the people in the following October; the numerous and arbitrary representation which had prevailed originally in the committee of 1774 and had been continued in the first and second congress of 1775, without respect to numbers or property, was confirmed by the new instrument, so that Charleston kept the right of sending thirty members; the old laws prescribing the qualifications of the electors and Chap. LXII.} 1776. Mar. the elected were continued in force; a legislative council of thirteen was elected by the general assembly out of their own body; the general assembly and the legislative council elected jointly by ballot
13th (search for this): chapter 22
hiladelphia, in order to assist in reuniting Great Britain and her colonies; another heaped the coarsest abuse upon the author of Common Sense: but meanwhile the criminal laws could not be enforced for want of officers; public and private affairs were running into confusion; the imminent danger of invasion was proved by intercepted letters; so that necessity compelled the adoption of some adequate system of rule. While a committee of eleven was preparing the organic law, Gadsden, on the thirteenth, began to act as senior officer of the army. Measures of defence were vigorously pursued, companies of militia called down to Charleston, and the military forces augmented by two regiments of riflemen. In the early part of the year Sullivan's Island was a wilderness; near the present fort, the wet ground was thickly covered with myrtle, live oak, and palmettos; there, on the second of March, William Moultrie was ordered to Mar. take the command, and complete a fort large enough to hold
December (search for this): chapter 22
committee; but the nearness of danger would not admit of delay; and the clauses that were most resisted, were adopted by a vote of about four to three. But when, on the twenty first of March, they received the act of parliament of the preceding December, which authorized the capture of American vessels and property, they gave up the hope of reconciliation; and on the twenty sixth, professing a desire of accommodation with Great Britain, even though traduced and treated as rebels, asserting the crush the present dangerous rebellion in the colonies, excited in him the most exemplary attention to every object of advantage. But delays, as usual, intervened. The instruc- Chap. LXII.} 1776. May. tions to Clinton were not finished till December, nor received by him till May. He was to issue a proclamation of pardon to all but the principal instigators and abettors of the rebellion, to dissolve the provincial congresses and committees of safety, to restore the regular administration of
12th (search for this): chapter 22
serve and to save an injured country. The word which South Carolina hesitated to pronounce, was uttered by North Carolina. That colony, proud of its victory over domestic enemies, and roused to defiance by the presence of Clinton, the British general, in one of their rivers, met in congress at Halifax on the fourth of April, on the eighth appointed a select committee, of which Harnett was the head, to consider the usurpations and violences of the British parliament and king, and on the twelfth, after listening to its report, unanimously empowered their delegates in the continental congress to concur with the delegates of the other colonies in declaring independency and forming foreign alliances. At the same time they reserved to their colony the sole right of forming its own constitution and laws. North Carolina was the first colony to vote an explicit sanction to independence; South Carolina won from all patriots equal praise by her virtuous and glorious example of instituti
October (search for this): chapter 22
ntrusted to a president, who was endowed with a veto on legislation, and who was also commander in chief; the congress then in session resolved itself into a general assembly till their successors should be elected by the people in the following October; the numerous and arbitrary representation which had prevailed originally in the committee of 1774 and had been continued in the first and second congress of 1775, without respect to numbers or property, was confirmed by the new instrument, so teveral days in Nantasket Road, to adjust his ships for the voyage, was awaiting reinforcements at Halifax; and during the interval he was willing that the attempt on the Southern colonies should be continued. That expedition had been planned in October by the king himself, whose solicitude for pursuing with vigor every measure that tended to crush the present dangerous rebellion in the colonies, excited in him the most exemplary attention to every object of advantage. But delays, as usual, i
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