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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition., Chapter 17: (search)
ntaining the declaratory act. The Americans have not called for its repeal, was his reply to all objections; and he never could be made to comprehend the forbearance of congress. So nothing remained for Chatham but to rely on himself. The opposition, thus divided, excited no alarm. The king was inflexible; and the majority of the cabinet, instead of respecting Lord North's scruples, were intriguing to get him turned out, and his place supplied by a thorough assertor of British supremacy. 1775. Jan. A cabinet council was held on the twelfth of January, and the current of its opinions drifted the minister into the war, which he wished to avoid. His col- 12. leagues refused to find in the proceedings of congress any honorable basis for conciliation. It was therefore resolved to interdict all commerce with the Americans; to protect the loyal, and to declare all others traitors and rebels. The vote was designed only to create division in the colonies, but it involved a civil war.
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition., Chapter 18: (search)
Chapter 18: Chatham Lays the foundation of peace. January 20, 1775. at the meeting of parliament after the holidays, Chap. XVIII.} 1775. Jan. Lord North, who had no plan of his own, presented papers relating to America. Burke complained of them as partial. Chatham, who alone among the public men of England had the sagacity and courage to propose what was necessary for conciliation, was reminded of the statesman who said to his son: See with how little wisdom this world of ours is governed; and he pictured to himself Ximenes and Cortes discussing their merits in the shades. The twentieth of January was the first day of the Jan. 20. session in the house of lords. It is not probable that even one of the peers had heard of the settlements beyond the Alleghanies, where the Watauga and the Forks of Holston flow to the Tennessee. Yet on the same day, the lords of that region, most of them Presbyterians of Scottish Irish descent, met in council near Abingdon. Their unite
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition., Chapter 19: (search)
ing for England to undertake Chap. XIX.} 1775. Jan. in earnest the subjugation of America, the kingts. The committee of North- Chap. XIX.} 1775. Jan. ampton county offered a premium for the manufacsecond of February; but when, near the end of January, the colony was surprised by a further prorogseparately, in the hope that Chap. XIX.} 1775. Jan. some one of them would offer acceptable terms. ssembly to employ, as its own Chap. XIX.} 1775 Jan. agent, Edmund Burke, whose genius might inspirended, said Colden to the New York assembly in January, pursue the means of redress which the constiy thousand men, sent word to the secretary in January, that if a respectable force is seen in the fleaders seized, and a pardon Chap. XIX.} 1775. Jan. proclaimed for all others, government will comeression of opinion in the central states. In January, the Quakers of Pennsylvania published an epi Christ is not of this world, Chap. XIX.} 1775 Jan. and that they would religiously observe the rul[1 more...]
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition., Chapter 20: (search)
Chapter 20: Parliament Declares Massachusetts in rebellion. January 23—February 9, 1775. the confidence of the ministry reposed more and Chap. XX.} 1775. Jan. more on the central provinces, and Dartmouth took for granted the peaceful settlement of every question; yet six sloops of war and two frigates were under orders for America, and it was ostentatiously heralded that seven hundred marines from England, and three regiments of infantry with one of light horse from Ireland, making dead in law. Hayley, of London, rebuked the levity of the house. The rejection of the petitions of the trading interests, said he, on the twenty-sixth of January, must drive on a civil war with America. The Americans, argued Chap. XX.} 1775. Jan. Jenkinson, ought to submit to every act of the English legislature. England, said Burke, is like the archer that saw his own child in the hands of the adversary, against whom he was going to draw his bow. Fox charged upon North, that the country