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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 6: (search)
nd vivify various masses of business, nor sagacity to penetrate the springs of public action and the consequences of measures. In a word, he was a dull, plodding pedant in politics; a painstaking, exact man of business, capable of counting Dr. Johnson's Thoughts on the Late Transactions Respecting Falk land's Islands. First edition: Let him (George Grenville) not be depreciated in his grave. He had powers not universally possessed. Could he have enforced payment of the Manilla ransom, he could have counted it. Boswell's Life of Johnson, chap. XXV. the Manilla ransom if it had ever been paid. In his frequent, long, and tedious speeches, it has been said that a trope Knox: Extra-official Papers. never passed his lips; but he abounded in repetitions and explanatory self-justification. He would have made a laborious and an upright judge, or an impartial and most respectable speaker of the CHAP. VI.} 1763. April. House of Commons; but at the head of an administration, he
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 7: (search)
bited. Since the French must go, no other nation should take their place. Let the Red Men at once vindicate their right to what was their own heritage, or consent to their certain ruin. The wide conspiracy began with the lower nations, who were the chief instigators of discontent. Sir Jeffery Amherst to Major Gladwin, New-York, 29 May, 1763. The nations below, who seem to be the chief instigators of this mischief. The Iroquois, especially the Senecas, Sir Jeffery Amherst to Sir William Johnson, New-York, 29 May, 1763. The Senecas seem to have a principal hand. * * * Other tribes enter into plots against their benefactors, &c. &c. who were very much enraged against the English, Speech of the Miami chief, 30 March, 1763. joined with the Delawares and Shawnees, and for two years Speech of Pontiac. Harangne faite à la Nation Illinoise, èt an chef Pondiak, &c. &c. 18 Avril, 1765. Aubry to the French minister, 16 May, 1765. Gayarre Histoire de la Louisiane, II. 131. Th
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 11: (search)
exercise of its power; and if the majority of parliament think they ought not to set these bounds, then they should give a share of the election of the legislature to the American colonies, otherwise the liberties of America, I do not say will be lost, but will be in danger; and they cannot be injured without danger to the liberties of Great Britain. R. Jackson's Letter of 7 June, 1765, in Connecticut Gazette, of 9 Aug. 1765. Knox's Extra-official State Papers, II. 31. R. Jackson to William Johnson, 5 April, 1774, and 30 November, 1784. Thus calmly reasoned Jackson. Grenville urged chap. XI.} 1765. Feb. the house not to suffer themselves to be moved by resentment. One member, however, referred with asperity to the votes of New-York and Massachusetts, and the house generally seemed to hold that America was as virtually represented in parliament as the great majority of the inhabitants of Great Britain. Isaac Barre, the companion and friend of Wolfe, sharer of the dangers
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 16: (search)
quarters for, replied Gage; and at the same time, he urged Colden to the severe exertion of the civil power. The public papers, he continued, are crammed with treason, and the people excited to revolt. Gage to Colden, 31 Aug. 1765. But mean time, McEvers, the stamp officer of New-York resigned; for, said he, if I attempt to receive the stamps, my house will be pillaged. McEvers to Colden, August. chap. XVI.} 1765. Aug. McEvers is terrified, said Colden to a friend; Colden to Sir W. Johnson, 31 August. but I shall not be intimidated; and the stamps shall be delivered in proper time; intending himself to appoint a stamp distributor. Yet dismay was spreading on every side among Sept. the crown officers. On the third of September, Coxe, the stamp officer for New Jersey, renounced his place. On the previous night, Sharpe to Halifax, 15 Sept. a party of four or five hundred, at Annapolis, pulled down a house, which Zachariah Hood, the stamp master for Maryland, was re
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 19: (search)
grew up within its sphere, and he who would single out in the country chap. XIX.} 1765 Nov. the region, where at that time the fire of patriotism burned with the purest flame, can find none surpassing the county of New London. The royalists of New-York, like Bernard, at Boston, railed at all Connecticut as a land of republicans, and maligned Yale College, as a seminary of democracy, the prolific mother of patriots The pretended patriots, educated in a seminary of Democracy. Gage to Sir W. Johnson, 20 Sept. 1765. In New-York, the whole city rose up as one man in opposition to the Stamp Act. The sailors came from their shipping; the people flocked in, as Gage thought, by thousands; the number seemed to be still increasing; and the leader of the popular tumult was Isaac Sears, the self-constituted, and for ten years, the recognised head of the people of New-York. At the corners of streets, at the doors of the public offices, placards threatened all who should receive or delive