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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 17: (search)
anch of its legislature,—successively elected delegates to the general American Congress. In Massachusetts, Boston, under the guidance of Samuel Adams, set the example to other towns, and in his words denounced to its representatives the Stamp Act, and its Courts of Admiralty, as contrary to the British constitution, to the charter of the province, 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, decided the law and the fact; holding his office during the pleasure of the king, and establishing that most mischievous of all customs, the taking of commissions on all condemnations. To the Legislature which convened on the twenty-fifth, Bernard attempted to draw a frightful picture of the general outlawry an