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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 11: (search)
England's fathers; and liberty became the dearer as men read at large through what sorrow, and self-denial, and cost of life it had been purchased. New England seemed summoned to play a great part in the history of the world. I always, said John Adams, consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in Providence for the illumination of the ignorant, and the emancipation of the slavish part chap. XI.} 1765. Jan. of mankind all over the earth. Ms. Diary of John Adams, communicated to me by the late John Quincy Adams. This vision was drawing near its fulfilment. Afraid to meet parliament on the naked proposal of the expediency of taxing America, Grenville, with consummate art, resolved to place it upon the most general and acknowledged grounds of whig Policy. Lloyd's Conduct, &c. 119. The king, therefore, on opening the session on the tenth of January, most wisely for the immediate gain of great majorities by his m
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 13: (search)
emonstrances of New-York; and compared them with the diffidence and want of spirit in the petition which the arts of Hutchinson had prevailed on the legislature of Massachusetts Bay to accept. They were embittered at the thought that they had been cajoled into forbearing to claim exemption from taxation as a right; and that yet their prayer had been suppressed by the ministry with haughty and impartial disdain. While the patriots on the one side censured the fatal acquiescence of Otis, J. Adams: Novanglus, 238. as a surrender of their liberties, the friends of government jeered at the vacillations and strange moods into which his irritability betrayed him, and called him a Massaniello and a madman. Keenly sensitive, and in the gloom that was thickening around him, conscious of his own sincerity, he repelled the insult with scorn. The divine Brutus, said he, once wore the cloak of a fool and a madman; the only cloak a man of true honor and spirit condescends to put on. And to me
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 14: (search)
ied Oxenbridge Thacher, from his deathbed, where, overplied by public exertions, he was wasting away with a hectic, those Virginians are men; they are noble spirits. I long to be out—to speak in court against tyranny, words that shall be read after my death. Why, said one of his friends, are not our rights and liberties as boldly asserted by every government in America as by Virginia? * * * Behold, cried another, a whole continent awakened, alarmed, restless, and disaffected. Letter of J. Adams. Boston Gazette. Hutchinson. Hist. III. Every where, from North to South—through the press, in letters, or as they met in private, for counsel, or in groups in the street, the chap. XIV.} 1765. June. Sons of Liberty told their griefs to one another, and planned retaliation or redress. No good reason can be given, observed the more calm among them, why the colonies should not modestly and soberly inquire, what right the parliament of Great Britain has to tax them. We were not sent o
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 16: (search)
of Wales! Pitt and liberty for ever! And high and low, rich and poor, joined in the chorus, Pitt and liberty! The daybreak of Wednesday, the fourteenth of chap. XVI.} 1765. Aug. August, saw the effigy of Oliver tricked out with emblems of Bute and Grenville, swinging on the bough of a stately elm, the pride of the neighborhood, known as the Great Tree, standing near what was then the entrance to the town. The pageant had been secretly prepared by Boston mechanics, Gordon, i. 175. J. Adams, II. 178. true born Sons of liberty, Benjamin Edes, the printer, Thomas Crafts, the painter; John Smith and Stephen Cleverly, the braziers; and the younger Avery; Thomas Chase, a fiery hater of kings; Affidavit of R. Silvester. Henry Bass, and Henry Welles. The passers-by stopped to gaze on the grotesque spectacle, and their report collected thousands. Hutchinson, as chief justice, ordered the sheriff to remove the image. We will take them down ourselves at evening, said the people.
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 17: (search)
f parliament against Magna Charta is for that reason void. In a more solemn tone, the convictions and purposes of America found utterance through the press. John Adams, of Massachusetts, a fiery Protestant, claiming intellectual freedom as the birthright of man, at once didactic and impetuous, obeying the impulses of a heart tll our countrymen, and all their posterity, without the utmost agonies of heart, and many tears. Such were the genuine sentiments of New England, uttered by John Adams, in words which, in part, were promptly laid before the king in council In Maryland, Daniel Dulany, an able lawyer, not surpassed in ability by any of the crown, and to the common rights of mankind; and built the warmest expectations on the union of the colonies in Congress. A week later, the town of Braintree, led by John Adams, declared the most grievous innovation of all to be, the extension of the power of Courts of Admiralty; in which one judge presided alone, and, without juries,
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 18: (search)
first man that should either distribute or make use of stamped paper. Assure yourselves, thus the stamp distributors were warned, the spirit of Brutus and Cassius is yet alive. The people grew more and more inflamed, declaring, we will not submit to the Stamp Act upon any account, or in any instance. In this, we will no more submit to parliament than to the Divan at Constantinople. We will ward it off till we can get France or Spain to protect us. From mouth to mouth flew the words of John Adams, You have rights antecedent to all earthly government; rights that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; rights derived from the Great Legislator of the Universe. In the midst of this intense excitement, the Congress brought its deliberations to a close. Ruggles, of Massachusetts, and Ogden, of New chap. XVIII.} 1765. Oct. Jersey, pretended that the resistance to the Stamp Act through all America was treason, argued strenuously in favor of the supreme authority of parliament,
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 19: (search)
hinson names him. Bernard's letters point to him, without naming him. The lead of the committee was Samuel Dexter, who had the greatest regard for Samuel Adams. J. Adams: Works, II. 163, 181. and had the vigor and polished elegance of his style, the house adopted the best, and the best digested series of resolves, prepared by himwas regarded in England as the ravings of a parcel of wild enthusiasts: in America, nothing was so much admired through the whole course of the controversy; and John Adams, who recorded at the time the applause which it won, said also, that of all the politicians of Boston, including Otis and Cushing, Samuel Adams had the most tho Nov. into which the government would fall by concession. But the Council, in which William Smith, the historian of New-York, acted a prudent part, Diary of John Adams. as the negotiator between the Lieutenant-Governor, the General, and the people, answered that his power was unequal to the protection of the inhabitants; Mi
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 20: (search)
ke to them with a smile, they gave three cheers more. A. Oliver to Bernard, 17 Dec. Same to same, 19 Dec. Boston Gaz. J. Adams's Diary. On the evening of the next day, as John Adams sat ruminating in his humble mansion at Quincy, on the interrJohn Adams sat ruminating in his humble mansion at Quincy, on the interruption of his career as a lawyer, a message came, that Boston, at the instance of a committee of which Samuel Adams was the chief, had joined him with Gridley and Otis, to sustain their memorial to the Governor and Council for opening the courts; andthe legislature; if the governor should refuse, then to call one themselves, by requesting all the members to meet; and John Adams came round to this opinion. The king, thus the young lawyer reasoned, on returning to his own fireside, the king is scertain how far New England would adopt the same covenant. If the great men are determined to enforce the Act, said John Adams, on New Year's day, on some 1766 Jan vague news from New-York, they will find it a more obstinate war than the conques
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 21: (search)
he ministry conformed to the opinion, which was that of Charles Yorke, the Attorney-General, and still more of Edmund Burke. Neglected by Rockingham, hated by the aristocracy, and feared by the king, Pitt pursued his career alone. In the quiet of confidential intercourse, he inquired if fleets and armies could reduce America, and heard from a friend, that the Americans would not submit, that they would still have their woods and liberty. Thomas Hollis sent to him the masterly essay of John Adams on the canon and feudal law. He read it, and pronounced it indeed masterly. The papers which had been agreed upon by the American Congress had been received by De Berdt, the agent for Massachusetts. Conway did not scruple to present its petition to the king, and George Cooke, the member for Middlesex, was so pleased with that to the Commons, that on Monday, the twenty-seventh of January, he offered it to the house, where he read it twice over. Jenkinson opposed receiving it, as did N