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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 17: (search)
ere applied to them; and they were allowed, like others, to give their testimony even in capital cases. Chap. XVII.} 1777. At the opening of the revolution, William Gordon, the congregationalist minister of Roxbury, though he declined to unsaint every man who still yielded to the prevailing prejudice, declared with others againsl of Boston, both zealous abolitionists; the latter then the leading lawyer in the state. In May, 1777, just before the meeting of the general court at Boston, Gordon, finding in the multiplicity of business before the general court the only apology for their not having attended to the case of slaves, as a preliminary to total governor and lieutenant-governor seats in the senate; that it disfranchised the free negro, a partiality warmly denounced through the press by the historian, William Gordon. There was, moreover, dissatisfaction with the legislature for having assumed constituent powers without authority from the people. Boston, while it recomme