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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 51: (search)
vote of two hundred and seventy eight against one hundred and ten. On the report of the address, the debate was renewed. If we suffer by the war, said Lord North, Chap. LI.} 1775. Oct. the Americans will suffer much more. Yet, he added, I wish to God, if it were possible, to put the colonies on the same footing they were in 1763. His seeming disinclination to the measures of his own ministry, justly drew on him the rebuke from Fox for not resigning his place. The present war, argued Adair at length, is unjust in its commencement, injurious to both countries in its prosecution, and ruinous in its event, staking the fate of a great empire against a shadow. The quarrel took its rise from the assertion of a right, at best but doubtful in itself; a right, from whence the warmest advocates for it have long been forced to admit that this country can never derive a single shilling of advantage. The Americans, it is said, will be satisfied with nothing less than absolute independenc