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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 29: (search)
am.—The first must have been inconclusive, since a second was so soon necessary. In part VI. of his work, he speaks of his interesting and most important conversation with Lord Chatham on the King's birthday, 1767, and in the part IV. in which he gives an account of the interview, he adds a note from Lord Camden, dated June 4, which he says he received as he was stepping into his phaeton to go to North End. The letter of the King to Chatham, in the Chatham Correspondence, III. 266, dated June 2, is of July 2. The inclosure was written in the evening of July 1, 1767, and was delivered by Grafton to the King, July 2. Grafton, urged by June. the wishes of the King, complained of Shelburne and Chap. XXIX.} 1767. June. intimated, that he could not be allowed to continue in his office. Chatham summoned spirit to vindicate his friend, and to advise the dismission of Townshend. He was with great difficulty led to believe that a junction was necessary with either the Bedfords or the
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 49: (search)
was chosen into the Council but negatived by the governor. Bone of our bone; flesh of our flesh; born and educated among us, cried others. Hancock, who was angry at being named in the correspondence, determined to lay bare their hypocrisy; and Cooper from the pulpit preached of the old Serpent, which deceiveth the whole world; but was cast out into the earth and his angels with him. The letters had circulated privately in the Province for more than two months, when on Wednesday the second of June, Samuel Adams read them to the House in secret session. They were by no means among the worst which their authors had written, but they showed a thorough complicity with Bernard and the Commissioners of the Customs, to bring military sway into the Province, and to abridge Colonial liberties by the interposition of Parliament. The House, after a debate, voted by one hundred and one against five, that the tendency and design of the letters was to subvert the Constitution of the Governm