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Dennys De Berdt (search for this): chapter 4
ernard to Shelburne, 10 Oct. 1766, with inclosures of Depositions, taken ex Parte; Letter from the Town of Boston to Dennys De Berdt, 22 Oct. 1766, with other Depositions. Boston Gazette, 13 Oct. 1766; 602, 1, 1 and 2. for a second time; but the ste instructions were strictly regarded. Speaker of Massachusetts House to its Agent, 11 Nov. 1766; Samuel Adams to Dennys De Berdt, 12 Nov. 1766. Yet before the adjournment complaint was made of the new zeal of Bernard in enforcing the Navigation s Legislature dismissed Richard Jackson from the service of the Province; and the House elected the honest, but aged Dennys De Berdt as its own particular Agent. This is the time from which Hutchinson dated the revolt of the Colonies; and his cor has the least appearance of a design to raise a revenue out of them, their jealousy will be awake. Samuel Adams to D. De Berdt, 16 Dec. 1766; and 18 Dec. 1766. At the same time he called across the continent to the patriot most like himself,
William Pitkin (search for this): chapter 4
ooking up where the Colony Agents usually sat, he added with emotion, I speak this aloud, that all you who are in the galleries may hear me; W. S. Johnson to Gov. Pitkin, 12 Feb. 1767. I follow the Account of Johnson from his Mss., of which I took and preserve copies. The story in Pitkin's Political and Civil History of the UnPitkin's Political and Civil History of the United States, i. 217, seems to me to have been fashioned by verbal tradition. I was told the same story, but not as to be found in the Mss. One English historian has quoted from Pitkin the passage, which might seem to prove that Townshend acted on a sudden impulse. The supposition would be erroneous. Townshend's policy was adoptPitkin the passage, which might seem to prove that Townshend acted on a sudden impulse. The supposition would be erroneous. Townshend's policy was adopted deliberately. and, after this, I do not expect to have my statue erected in America. Letter cited in Wirt's Patrick Henry, 96. This last clause is not in W. S. Johnson's report. Then laying his hand on the table in Chap. XXVII.} 1767. Jan. front of him, he declared to the House, England is undone, if this taxation of Amer
Ralph McNair (search for this): chapter 4
they to one another, withstood the Lords of Parliament in behalf of true Liberty; let not officers under them carry on unjust oppression in our province. No. 1, Advertisement C. Aug. 1766. In Tryon to Secretary of State, 24 Dec. 1768; Martin's North Carolina, II. 217; Jones's Defence of N. C. Some of those who were wronged hardly gained by their utmost efforts a scanty subsistence for their families. Compare Petition prepared by Fanning, and sent the Regulators by Fanning's friend, Ralph McNair. All were loyal; regarding the British form of government as the wholesomest Constitution in being. But they were goaded by the corrupt and arbitrary practices of nefarious and designing men, who, being put into posts of profit and credit among them, and not being satisfied with the legal benefits which arose from the execution of their offices, had been using every artifice, practising every fraud, and where these failed, not sparing threats and menaces whereby to squeeze and extort fro
Wheeler (search for this): chapter 4
Compare Sabine's American Loyalists, at the word Edmund Fanning. and charging illegal prices for recording Deeds. For Proofs of Extortion, see Records of the Court held at Hillsborough, September, 1768, printed by Husbands, and reprinted in Wheeler's North Carolina, II. 322. Tryon admits the Fact. He was, above all others, justly obnoxious to the people; and his message to them ran, that their proposition to inquire judiciously Chap. XXVII.} 1766. Oct. implied an intention of setting up the poor man's burdens by voting an annual poll-tax to raise five thousand pounds, and the next year ten Chap. XXVII.} 1766. Oct. thousand more, to build a House for the Governor at Newbern. Martin's North Carolina, II. 227, 228, 229, 230; Wheeler, i. 55. In Boston, the General Court resumed its session near the end of October; and received petitions from the sufferers by the Stamp Act. The form of its an- Nov. swer was suggested by Joseph Hawley, the Member for Northampton. He was
Edmund Burke (search for this): chapter 4
ight of Parliament to control its Legislature. Moffat, of Rhode Island, asked relief for his losses; founding his claim on the resolves of the British House of Commons, and the King's recommendation. Thomas Moffat to a Member of Parliament, Mr. Burke's cousin. 12 Dec. 1766; Moffat's Account sent to the same M. P., and to Sir George Saville and others. Neither of them, said the Speaker of the Assembly, can ever operate with me; nor ought they to influence the free and independent Representaritorial revenue; and as Towns- Chap. XXVII.} 1766. Dec. hend crossed his plans and leaned to the East India Company, he proposed to Grafton the dismissal of Townshend as incurable. Chatham to Grafton, 7 Dec. 1766, in Grafton's Autobiography. Burke indulged in sarcasm at the great person, so immeasurably high as not to be reached by argument, and travestied the litany in a solemn invocation to the Minister above. Have mercy upon us, he cried, while the Opposition applauded the parody; doom
Grafton (search for this): chapter 4
t of his headstrong removal of Lord Edgecombe from an unimportant post. Charles Townshend to Grafton, 2 Nov. 1766, in Grafton's Autobiography; Conway to Chatham, 22 Nov. 1766, Chat. Corr. III. 12 1766. Their unions, said Chatham in return, give me no terrors. I know my ground, he wrote to Grafton; Chatham to Grafton, 3 Dec. 1766, in Grafton's Autobiography. and I leave them to indulge thGrafton, 3 Dec. 1766, in Grafton's Autobiography. and I leave them to indulge their dreams. Faction will not shake the King nor gain the public. Indeed, the King is firm, and there is nothing to fear; and he risked an encounter with all his adversaries. To Shelburne, who wa XXVII.} 1766. Dec. hend crossed his plans and leaned to the East India Company, he proposed to Grafton the dismissal of Townshend as incurable. Chatham to Grafton, 7 Dec. 1766, in Grafton's AutobGrafton, 7 Dec. 1766, in Grafton's Autobiography. Burke indulged in sarcasm at the great person, so immeasurably high as not to be reached by argument, and travestied the litany in a solemn invocation to the Minister above. Have mercy upo
Keppel (search for this): chapter 4
ned their employments, on account of his headstrong removal of Lord Edgecombe from an unimportant post. Charles Townshend to Grafton, 2 Nov. 1766, in Grafton's Autobiography; Conway to Chatham, 22 Nov. 1766, Chat. Corr. III. 126. Saunders and Keppel left the Admiralty, and Keppel's place fell to Jenkinson. The Bedford party knew the weakness of the English Ximenes, and scorned to accept his moderate bid for recruits. But the King continually cheered him on to rout out the Grandees of EnglaKeppel's place fell to Jenkinson. The Bedford party knew the weakness of the English Ximenes, and scorned to accept his moderate bid for recruits. But the King continually cheered him on to rout out the Grandees of England, now banded together. King to Chatham, 2 Dec. 1766. Their unions, said Chatham in return, give me no terrors. I know my ground, he wrote to Grafton; Chatham to Grafton, 3 Dec. 1766, in Grafton's Autobiography. and I leave them to indulge their dreams. Faction will not shake the King nor gain the public. Indeed, the King is firm, and there is nothing to fear; and he risked an encounter with all his adversaries. To Shelburne, who was charged with the care of the Colonies, he gave hi
George Saville (search for this): chapter 4
I. 266. had set before them the Declaratory Act, explained to them their rights, and leagued with them to oppose all foreign taxation. Every Colony denied the right of Parliament to control its Legislature. Moffat, of Rhode Island, asked relief for his losses; founding his claim on the resolves of the British House of Commons, and the King's recommendation. Thomas Moffat to a Member of Parliament, Mr. Burke's cousin. 12 Dec. 1766; Moffat's Account sent to the same M. P., and to Sir George Saville and others. Neither of them, said the Speaker of the Assembly, can ever operate with me; nor ought they to influence the free and independent Representatives of Rhode Island Colony. Moffat had leave to withdraw his first petition and substitute an inoffensive one, which was received, but referred to a future session. At New-York the soldiery continued to irritate the people by insolent language, and by once more cutting down their flagstaff; Dunlap's New-York, i. 433; Leake's La
Daniel Colden (search for this): chapter 4
dress of the Assembly of New-York to the Governor, delivered 18 Dec. 1766, in Prior Documents, 120; Holt's N. Y. Gazette, 1251, 24 Dec. 1766. This prudent reserve secured unanimity in the Assembly and among their constituents. Gov. Moore to Board of Trade, 19 Dec. 1766, and to Shelburne, 19 Dec. 1766. In New-York as well as over all North America, the Act declaratory of the absolute power of Parliament was met by the principle of the supreme power of the people in all cases whatsoever. Colden to Shelburne, Dec. 1766. Before American affairs engaged the attention of Parliament, the power of Chatham's Ministry was shaken by Camden's indiscretion. On occasion of a scarcity, the Ministry had prohibited the export of corn. Camden defended the measure as not only excusable but legal; and to the complaints of its arbitrariness, rashly answered: The Crown may do whatever the safety of the State may require, during the recess of Parliament, which is at most but a forty days tyranny.
Craig (search for this): chapter 4
n, could rely only on themselves for the protection of their property, and refused to pay quit-rents till their legal right should be acknowledged. The line of straggling settlements beyond the mountains, extended from Pittsburg up the Monongahela For the Official Papers of 1766, respecting the settlements on the Monongahela, especially at Redstone, see the Minutes of the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania, vol. IX. Compare also, J. L. Bowman in the American Pioneer, for February, 1843; Craig's History of Pittsburg, 98, 99; Day's Historical Collections of Pennsylvania, 336. and its tributaries to the banks of the Greenbriar and the New River, Compare Monette's History of the Discovery and Settlement of the Valley of the Mississippi, i. 345. and to the well-known upper valley of the Holston, That lands in the Holston Valley were sought for as early as 1756, see the proof in Ramsay's Annals of Tennessee, 66. where the military path from Virginia led to the country of the Cher
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