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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 12: (search)
the Mohawks were invited to engage in the war; a few of them took up the hatchet: but distance rendered cooperation impossible. After several fruitless attempts 1678 April 12. at treaties, peace was finally established by Andros as governor of Pemaquid, but on terms which acknowledged the superiority of the Indians. On their p been devised to awaken the attention of every individual in the commonwealth to a consideration of the subject. Meantime the general court had enacted several 1678, 1679 laws, partially removing the ground of complaint. But they related to forms, rather than to realities. High Chap. XII.} 1678, 1679. treason was made a ca1678, 1679. treason was made a capital offence; the oath of allegiance was required; the king's arms were put up in the court-house. But it was more difficult to conform to the laws of trade. The colony was unwilling to forfeit its charter and its religious liberties on a pecuniary question; and yet, to acknowledge its readiness to submit to an act of parliamen
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 13: (search)
lliamson, i. 134, classes among weak and flimsy arguments. Why should an apologist for Bacon clamor against Culpepper? The events that followed prove the sincerity of this plea; for North Carolina was much infected with that passion for representative government, which was the epidemic of America. Having deposed and imprisoned the president and the deputies of the proprietaries and set at nought the acts of parliament, the people recovered from anarchy, tranquilly organized a Chap. XIII.} 1678. government, and established courts of justice. The insurrection was a deliberate rising of the people against the pretensions of the proprietaries and the laws of navigation; the uneducated population of that day formed conclusions as just as those which a century later pervaded the country. Eastchurch arrived in Virginia; but his commission and authority were derided; and he himself was kept out by force of arms; Williamson, i. 264. while the insurgents, among whom was George Durant, t
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 14: (search)
rgy of the government. T. M.'s Account, p. 21. Lord Baltimore to the earl of Anglesey, in Chalmers, p. 376. In the time of Bacon's rebellion, he [Fendall] tried to raise a rebellion here. But the vague and undefined cravings after change, the tendency toward more popular forms of administration, could not be repressed. The assembly which was convened during the absence of 1678 proprietary shared in this spirit; and the right of suffrage was established on a corresponding basis. Bacon, 1678, c. III. McMahon, 445. The party of Baconists had obtained great influence on the public mind. Differences between the proprietary and the people became apparent. On his return to the province, he himself, by proclamation, 1681 June 27 annulled the rule which the representatives of Maryland had established respecting the elective franchise, and, by an arbitrary ordinance, limited the right of Sept. 6. suffrage to freemen possessing a freehold of fifty acres, or having a visible personal
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 16: (search)
religious meetings. Haz. Reg. VI 182. The Indian kings also gathered in council under the shades of the Burlington forests, and declared their joy at the pros- 1678. pect of permanent peace. You are our brothers, said the sachems, and we will live like brothers with you. We will have a broad path for you and us to walk in. If the question to a disinterested commission. The argument of the Quakers breathes the spirit of Anglo-Saxons. An express grant of the powers of government 1678 to 680. induced us to buy the moiety of New Jersey. If we could not assure people of an easy, free, and safe government, liberty of conscience, and an inviolable possession of their civil rights and freedoms, a mere wilder- Chap XVI.} 1678 to 1680 ness would be no encouragement. It were madness to leave a free country to plant a wilderness, and give another person an absolute title to tax us at will. The customs imposed by the government of New York are not a burden only, but a wrong
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 17: (search)
roofed houses, which luxury never entered, stood wide open to charity, and to the stranger. Denton's New York, printed in 1670, describes it under the duke's government, p. 19 and 20. Andros, in Chalmers, 601, &c. The Island of New York may, in 1678, have contained not far from three thousand inhabitants; in the whole colony there could not have been far from twenty thousand. Ministers were scarce, but welcome, and religions many; the poor were relieved, and beggars unknown. A thousand pounentative government. A direct trade with England, unencumbered by customs, was encouraged. The commerce of New York was endangered by the competition; and, disregarding a second patent from the duke of York, Andros claimed that the ships of New 1678. Oct. 10. Jersey should pay tribute at Manhattan. After long altercations, and the arrest of Carteret, terminated only by the honest verdict of a New York jury, Andros again entered New Jersey, to intimidate its assembly by the 1680. June 2 roya