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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 51: (search)
revolted. The seals of the American department were transferred to Lord George Sackville Germain, who owed his selection to his speech in the house of commons on ths enforcing the measures Chap. LI.} 1775. Nov. recommended in that speech. Germain stood before Europe as a cashiered officer, disgraced for cowardice on the fieng the pretension to an American revenue. If we are to have no peace, replied Germain, unless we give up the right of taxation, the contest is brought to its fair ie of the laws of the empire to raise four thousand recruits in Germany; for if Germain was to crush the Americans, it could not be done by Englishmen. The ministry as the master of parliament, but not of the affections of the English people. Germain's appointment shows how little their sympathies were considered; the administrrafton, Chatham's successor; and Lord North, who succeeded Grafton, sided with Germain and Sandwich only by spasms, and though he loved his place, was more against h
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 59: (search)
offered the last year to prevent the invasion of Canada; and to complain that the white people had given them no support. Brother, so the Mohawk chief addressed Germain, we hope to see these bad children, the New England people, chastised. The Indians have always been ready to assist the king. And Germain replied: Continue to mGermain replied: Continue to manifest attachment to the king; and be sure of his majesty's favor. George and his ministers promised themselves important aid from the Iroquois and Northwestern warriors. Unconditional submission was now the watchword of Germain; and when on the evening of the same day the Duke of Grafton attempted once more, in the house of lorGermain; and when on the evening of the same day the Duke of Grafton attempted once more, in the house of lords, to plead for conciliation, the gentle Dartmouth approved sending over a sufficient force to awe the colonies into submission; Hillsborough would listen to no accommodation, short of the acknowledgment of the right of taxation and the submission of Massachusetts to the law for altering its charter; and Mansfield ridiculed the id
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 63: (search)
issued on the sixth of May, conferred power on Lord Howe and General Howe, jointly and severally, to grant pardons to such as should give early proofs of their sincere abhorrence of their defection from loyalty and should duly sue for mercy. The two points in controversy were the right of taxation, and the repeal of the changes in the charter of Massachusetts. Lord North, when he relapsed into his natural bias towards justice, used to say publicly that the right of taxation was abandoned; Germain always asserted that it was not. The instructions to the commissioners were founded upon the resolution of the twentieth of February, 1775; which the colonies had solemnly declared to be insufficient. The parliamentary change in the charter of Massachusetts was to be enforced; and secret instructions required that Connecticut and Rhode Island should be compelled, if possible, to accept analogous changes; so that not only was uncon ditional submission required, but in the moment of Chap.