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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., The crisis (search)
its Speaker the respectable but irresolute Thomas Cushing. In the afternoon of the same day, at the choice of the Council, the four Judges of the Supreme Court, of whom Hutchinson was the Chief, the King's Attorney, and Oliver, the Secretary and late Stamp-master, all Members of the last year's Board, were not reelected; for, said Samuel Adams, upon the principle of the best writers, a union of the several powers of government in one person is dangerous to liberty. Samuel Adams to Dennys De Berdt, 1766. The ballot had conformed strictly to the charter Compare the Answer of the House to Governor Bernard, 2 June, 1766. and to usage, and the successful candidates were men of prudence, uprightness, and loyalty. But Bernard resented Compare Bernard to Hillsborough, 30 May, 1768. the exclusion of the crown officers, and from the whole number of twenty-eight he rejected six Thomas Hutchinson to his son, then in England, 29 May, 1766. of the ablest friends of the people in the
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 27: (search)
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,
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 28: (search)
ts convened. Hutchinson, having received his compensation as a sufferer by the riots, restrained his ambition no longer, and took a seat in the Council as though it of right belonged to the Lieutenant Governor. Bernard to Secretary of State, 7 Feb. 1767, and 21 Feb. 1767. The House resented the lust of power, manifested by his intrusion into an elective body of which he had not been chosen a member. Answer of the House, 31 Jan. 1767, in Bradford, 104; and Letter from the House to Dennys De Berdt, 16 March, 1767 The Council, by a unanimous vote, denied his pretensions. The language of the Charter was too explicit to admit of a doubt; Opinion of the Attorney General in England, cited in a Minute relative to Massachusetts Bay, 1767. yet Bernard, as the accomplice of Hutchinson, urged the interposition of the central Government. Men feared more and more the system which Feb Paxton had gone to mature. With unshaken confidence in Hawley, Otis, and Samuel Adams, Freeborn A
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 34: (search)
o tell the marines to fire? cried a Bostoneer; and, turning to Harrison, the Collector, a well-meaning man, who disapproved the violent manner of the seizure, he added, The owner is sent for; you had better let the vessel lie at the wharf till he comes down. No, she shall go, insisted the Comptroller;! and show me the man who dares oppose it. See the affidavits of Joseph Piper, William Ross, Caleb Hopkins, Benjamin Goodwin, and others taken in June, 1768, and annexed to the Memorial of de Berdt, of 21 July, 1768. Kill the damned scoundrel, cried the Master. We will throw the people from the Romney overboard, said Malcom, stung with anger. By God, she shall go, repeated the Master and he more than once called to the marines, Why don't you fire? John Rowe's affidavit. and bade them fire. Benjamin Goodwin's affidavit. So they cut her moorings, and with ropes in the barges, the sloop was towed away to the Romney. A crowd of boys and negroes Hutchinson to Whately, Boston,
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 37: (search)
to Hillsborough, 18 Oct. 1768. Bernard next summoned all the acting justices to meet him, and renewed the General's demand for quarters. Not till the barracks are filled, they answered, conforming to the law. Compare Samuel Adams to Dennys De Berdt, Esq., Boston, 3 October, 1768. How absurd and ungrateful, cried Hutchinson. Hutchinson to T. Pownall, 8 Nov. 1768. The clause Chap. XXXVII.} 1768. Oct. wrote Gage, is by no means calculated for this coun– try, where every man studies lEngland shall en- Chap. XXXVII.} 1768. Oct. force it. W. S. Johnson to the Governor of Connecticut, 18 Nov. 1768. The inhabitants of Boston, on their part, resolved not to pay their money without their own consent, Samuel Adams to Dennys De Berdt, 3 Oct. 1768. and were more than ever determined to relinquish every article that came from Britain, till the obnoxous acts should be repealed and the troops removed. With no hysteric weakness, or feverish excitement, they preserved their p
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter XLI (search)
gain places before them his own support as their first object. Message of Governor Bernard to the House of Representatives, June 21, 1769, Bradford, 175. The House paid no heed to his entreaties; but by a unanimous vote, one hundred and nine members being present, petitioned the King to remove him for ever from the Government, enumerating many and just grounds of complaint. Petition of the House of Representatives to the King, 27 June, 1769; Bradford, 188 and 195. Samuel Adams to Dennys De Berdt, 13 July, 1769. All this while Bernard, sure of the royal protection and blinded by avarice, was mainly intent on getting a year's salary. Another week passes. Contrary to the advice of all about him, he communicated to the Assembly Message from the Governor, 28 June, 1769; Bradford, 175, 176. his order to repair to England, and, citing Chap. XLI. 1769. June. a royal instruction on the subject of provincial grants for the support of Government, coupled his new demand of a year's
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 42: (search)
nals of some of them. Dalrymple was so continually engaged in disagreeable broils, that he and other officers longed to leave the town. Martial Law not having been proclaimed, a military force, Hutchinson owned, was of no sort of use, and was perfectly despised. Hutchinson's Hist. III. 263. Troops, said Samuel Adams, which have heretofore been the terror of the enemies to liberty, parade the streets, to become the objects of the contempt even of women and children. Samuel Adams to D. De Berdt, 6 Nov. 1769. The menace that he and his friends should be arrested and shipped to England, was no more Chap. XLII.} 1769. Nov. heeded than idle words. The Assembly of North Carolina, in November, unanimously Tryon to Hillsborough, 22 Nov. adopted the protest of Virginia against the proposal, and thus provoked a dissolution, which opened to the Regulators some hope of relief through new elections. But a different turn was given to public thought, when Botetourt, the King's ow