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Charles Fox (search for this): chapter 25
ministry and their emissaries, were those which the voice of America would have dictated, could he have taken her counsel. In him is discerned no deficiency and no excess. Full of feeling, even to passion, he observed, and reasoned, and spoke serenely. Of all men, he was a friend to peace; but the terrors of a sanguinary civil war did not confuse his perceptions or impair his decision. Neither Chatham, nor Rockingham, nor Burke, blamed Franklin for renouncing allegiance; and we shall see Fox once more claim his friendship, and Shelburne and the younger Pitt rest upon him with the confidence which he deserved. He went home to the work of independence, and, through independence, of peace. He was sailing out of the British channel with a fair wind and a smooth sea, when on the twenty- Mar. 22. second of March, on occasion of the bill prohibiting New England from the fisheries, Edmund Burke, for the vindication of his party, but with no hope of success, brought forward in the ho
Franklin (search for this): chapter 25
rd Howe at London broke off negotiations with Franklin, and the ministry used the pen of Samuel Johnes to hear that which he has already seen. Franklin had remained in Great Britain for no reason b are especially entitled to the fisheries. Franklin, as he heard the insinuations of Sandwich agas; and the citation of the precedent cheered Franklin as a Chap. XXIV.} 1775. Mar. prediction. Bue. A large part of his last day in London, Franklin passed with Edmund Burke, and however much heain furnish minds like theirs? Burke revered Franklin to the last, foretold the steady brightening he morning after his conversation with Burke, Franklin posted to Portsmouth with all speed, and befo of England, with supporters of the ministry, Franklin had labored on all occasions earnestly, disinSpeaking the truth to them in sincerity, said Franklin, was my only finesse. The ability displayeer Chatham, nor Rockingham, nor Burke, blamed Franklin for renouncing allegiance; and we shall see F
Holland (search for this): chapter 25
d resting place in the progress of their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them, than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. Chap. XXIV.} 1775. Mar. 22. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous 22. mode of hard industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. When I contemplate these things; when I know that the colonies in general owe little or nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form by the con
Hutchinson (search for this): chapter 25
her once more? When will an age again furnish minds like theirs? Burke revered Franklin to the last, foretold the steady brightening of his fame; and drew from his integrity the pleasing hope of ultimate peace. On the morning after his conversation with Burke, Franklin posted to Portsmouth with all speed, and before his departure from London was known, was embarked for Philadelphia. What Chap. XXIV.} 1775. Mar. tidings were to greet his landing He has left with bad designs, said Hutchinson; had I been the master, his embarkation would have been prevented.—With his superiority, said Garnier, and with the confidence of the Americans, he will be able to cut out work for the ministers who have persecuted him. Vergennes felt assured he would spread the conviction that the British ministry had irrevocably chosen its part; and that America had no choice but independence. With personal friends, with merchants, with manufacturers, with the liberal statesmen of England, with support
Jeannin (search for this): chapter 25
s of the old whigs, and the new, inserted in their protest against the act, that the people of New England are especially entitled to the fisheries. Franklin, as he heard the insinuations of Sandwich against the honesty of his countrymen, turned on his heel in wrath; nothing was left for him but to go home where duty called him. The French minister, who revered his supreme ability, sought with him one last interview. I spoke to him, wrote Garnier to Vergennes, of the part which our president Jeannin had taken in establishing the independence and forming the government of the United Provinces; and the citation of the precedent cheered Franklin as a Chap. XXIV.} 1775. Mar. prediction. But then, subjoined Garnier, they have neither a marine, nor allies, nor a prince of Orange. A large part of his last day in London, Franklin passed with Edmund Burke, and however much he may have been soured and exasperated by wrongs and insults to himself and his country, he still regarded the
Jenkinson (search for this): chapter 25
nscious of our situation, and glow with zeal to fill our places as becomes our station and ourselves, we ought to auspicate all our public proceedings on America, with the old warning of the church, lift up your hearts! We ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of that trust to which the order of Providence has called us. By adverting to the dignity of this high calling, our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire; and have made the most extensive, and the only honorable conquests, not by destroying, but by promoting the wealth, the number, the happiness of the human Chap. XXIV.} 1775. Mar. 22. race. For three hours, Burke was heard with attention; but after a reply by Jenkinson, his deep wisdom was scoffed away by a vote of more than three to one. It was the moment of greatest depression to the friends of liberty in England; their efforts in parliament only exposed their want of power. Ministers anticipated as little resistance in the colonies.
Samuel Johnson (search for this): chapter 25
with Franklin, and the ministry used the pen of Samuel Johnson, to inflame the public mind. Johnson was a pooJohnson was a poor man's son, and had himself tasted the bitter cup of extreme indigence. His father left no more than twenty pwander into the country as exiles. Alas! retorted Johnson, the heroes of Boston will only leave good houses te which was set off by a ponderous effort at mirth, Johnson pointed at him as the master of mischief, teaching m a right of resistance, Audacious defiance! cried Johnson; acrimonious malignity! The indignation of the Engd shown impatience of oppression. How is it, asked Johnson, that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty ambng tations. We do not put a calf into the plough, said Johnson; we wait till he is an ox. This, however, the minilling to concede that the calf had been spared; and Johnson obeyed, comparing himself to a mechanic for whom thinces of the earth tremble in their palaces. Had Johnson been truly a man of genius, he would have escaped t
William Pitt (search for this): chapter 25
ica would have dictated, could he have taken her counsel. In him is discerned no deficiency and no excess. Full of feeling, even to passion, he observed, and reasoned, and spoke serenely. Of all men, he was a friend to peace; but the terrors of a sanguinary civil war did not confuse his perceptions or impair his decision. Neither Chatham, nor Rockingham, nor Burke, blamed Franklin for renouncing allegiance; and we shall see Fox once more claim his friendship, and Shelburne and the younger Pitt rest upon him with the confidence which he deserved. He went home to the work of independence, and, through independence, of peace. He was sailing out of the British channel with a fair wind and a smooth sea, when on the twenty- Mar. 22. second of March, on occasion of the bill prohibiting New England from the fisheries, Edmund Burke, for the vindication of his party, but with no hope of success, brought forward in the house of commons resolutions for conciliation. Beyond all others, he
Richardson (search for this): chapter 25
ministry used the pen of Samuel Johnson, to inflame the public mind. Johnson was a poor man's son, and had himself tasted the bitter cup of extreme indigence. His father left no more than twenty pounds. To bury his mother and pay her little debts, he had composed Rasselas. For years he had gained a precarious support as an author. He had paced the streets of London all night long, from not having where to lay his head; he had escaped a prison for a trifle he owed by beg ging an alms of Richardson, had broken his bread with poverty, and had even known what it is from sheer want to go without a dinner, preserving through all his sufferings the unbending spirit of rugged independence. His name was venerable wherever the English was spoken, by his full display of that language in a dictionary, written amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness, sorrow, and solitude, with little assistance of the learned and no patronage of the great. When better days came, he loved the poor as
Rockingham (search for this): chapter 25
ould carry them. He then abused the Americans for not paying their debts, and ascribed their associations to a desire to defraud their creditors. It is memorable, that when on the twenty-first, the debate was renewed and the bill passed, both Rockingham and Shelburne, the heads of the old whigs, and the new, inserted in their protest against the act, that the people of New England are especially entitled to the fisheries. Franklin, as he heard the insinuations of Sandwich against the honestss. Full of feeling, even to passion, he observed, and reasoned, and spoke serenely. Of all men, he was a friend to peace; but the terrors of a sanguinary civil war did not confuse his perceptions or impair his decision. Neither Chatham, nor Rockingham, nor Burke, blamed Franklin for renouncing allegiance; and we shall see Fox once more claim his friendship, and Shelburne and the younger Pitt rest upon him with the confidence which he deserved. He went home to the work of independence, and,
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