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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 7: (search)
be established chap. VII.} 1754. for the benefit of all the colonies collectively in North America. Sir T. Robinson's Circular of 26 Oct., 1754. Men in England expected obedience; but in December, Delancey referred to the general opinion of the congress at Albany, that the colonies would differ in their measures and disagree about their quotas; without the interposition of the British parliament to oblige them, nothing would be done. Lieut. Gov. Delancey to the Lords of Trade, 15 Dec. 1754. In the same moment, Shirley, at Boston, was planning how the common fund could be made efficient; and to Franklin—who, in December, 1754, revisited the region in which he drew his first breath, and spent his earliest and most pleasant days,—he submitted a new scheme of union. A congress of governors and delegates from the councils was to be invested with power at their meetings to adopt measures of defence, and to draw for all necessary moneys on the treasury of Great Britain, which