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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 64: (search)
Chapter 64: Virginia Proclaims the rights of man. May—June, 1776. on the sixth day of May forty-five members of Chap. LXIV.} 1776. May. the house of burgesses of Virginia, met at the capitolin Williamsburg pursuant to their adjournment; but as they were of the opinion that the ancient constitution had been subverted by the king and parliament of Great Britain, they dissolved themselves unanimously, and thus the last vestige of the king's authority passed away. The delegates of Virginia, who on the same morning assembled in convention, were a constituent and an executive assembly. They represented the oldest and the largest colony, whose institutions had been fashioned on the model recommended by Bacon, and whose inhabitants for nearly a hundred and seventy years had been eminently loyal, and had sustained the church of England as the establishment of the land. Its people, having in their origin a perceptible but never an exclusive influence of the cavaliers, had s
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 65: (search)
Chapter 65: The Virginia proposition of independence. May—June, 1776. while Virginia communicated to her sister col- Chap. LXV.} 1776. May. onies her instruction to her delegates in congress to propose independence, Washington at New York freely and repeatedly delivered his opinion: A reconciliation with Great Britain is impracticable and would be in the highest degree detrimental to the true interest of America; when I first took the command of the army, I abhorred the idea of independence; but I am now fully convinced that nothing else will save us. The preamble and the resolves of congress, adopted at Philadelphia on the same day with the Virginia instructions at Williamsburg, were in themselves the act of a self-determining political body. The blow which proceeded from John Adams, felled the proprietary authority in Pennsylvania and Maryland to the ground. Maryland, more happy than her neighbor, kept her ranks unbroken, for she had intrusted the direction of the r
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 67: (search)
Chapter 67: The retreat from Canada. January—June, 1776. The death of Montgomery dispelled the illusion Chap. LXVII.} 1776. Jan. to Mar. that hovered round the invasion of Canada. The soldiers whose time expired on the last day of December insisted on their discharge; some went off without leave, taking with them their arms; the rest were dejected and anxious to be at home. There remained encamped near Quebec rather than besieging it, about four hundred Americans and as many wavering Canadians. The force commanded by Carleton was twice as numerous as both, and was concentrated in the well provisioned and strongly fortified town. Yet in the face of disasters and a superior enemy, Arnold preserved his fortitude; I have no thought, he said, of leaving this proud town until I enter it in tri umph. Montgomery had required an army of ten thousand men; Arnold declared that a less number would not suffice. The chief command devolved on Wooster, who was at Montreal; and h