George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition.

As his barge emerged from the Highlands, it neared¹ the western bank to receive on board Cadwallader Golden, the oldest member of the royal council. How often had the governor and his advisers joined in deploring ‘the levelling principles² of the people of New York and the neighboring colonies;’ ‘the tendencies of American legislatures to independence;’ their unwarrantable presumption in ‘declaring their own rights and privileges;’ their ambitious efforts ‘to wrest the administration from the king's officers,’ by refusing fixed salaries, and compelling the respective governors to annual capitulations for their support! How had they conspired to dissuade the English government from countenancing the opulent James Delancey, then the Chief Justice of the Province and the selfish and artful leader of the opposition! ‘The inhabitants of the plantations,’ they reiterated to one another and to the ministry, ‘are generally educated in republican principles; upon republican principles all is conducted. Little more than a shadow of royal authority remains in the Northern Colonies.’³ Very recently the importunities of Clinton had offered the Duke of Newcastle ‘the dilemma of supporting the governor's authority, or relinquishing power to a popular faction.’ ‘It will be impossible,’