The earliest proceedings3 of this year in regard to the American colonies took place in the British Parliament. In all the resolutions, protests, addresses, and petitions which had been adopted by American Assemblies and at town meetings, asserting the exclusive right of the colonists to tax themselves, and against taxation4 without representation by the British Parliament, they professed5 heartfelt loyalty to the King, and disclaimed6 all views of independence; while in England the Parliament asserted unlimited8 supremacy9 in and over the colonies, and the Royal speeches, as well as the resolutions and addresses adopted by the Lords and Commons, represented the colonies as being in a state of disobedience to law and government, adopting measures subversive10 of the constitution, and manifesting a disposition11 to throw off all allegiance to the mother country. The House of Lords passed resolutions censuring12 the resolutions and proceedings of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, pronouncing the election of deputies to sit in Convention, and the meeting of that Convention at Boston, daring insults to his Majesty13's authority, and audacious usurpations of the powers of Government; yet, as has been seen, that Convention expressly disclaimed any assumption of government, and simply expressed the grievances14 complained of, prayed for their redress15, declared their loyalty to the King, and recognition of the supreme16 authority of Parliament according to the constitution, and quietly dissolved. But the House of Commons declared [Pg 354]concurrence18 in the resolutions of the Lords; and both Houses, in their address to the King, endorsed19 the measures of his Ministers, declared their readiness to give effectual support to such further measures as might be found necessary to execute the laws in Massachusetts Bay, and prayed his Majesty "to direct the Governor (Barnard) to take the most effectual methods for procuring20 the fullest information touching21 all treason or misprision of treason within the Government since the 30th day of December, 1767, and to transmit the same, together with the names of the persons who were most active in the commission of such offences, to one of the Secretaries of State, in order that his Majesty might issue a special commission for inquiring, hearing and determining the said offences, within the realm of Great Britain, pursuant to the provision of the statute22 of the 35th of Henry the Eighth."
The holding of town-meetings and their election of deputies, etc., were as much provided for in the provincial23 laws as the meeting and proceedings of the House of Representatives, or as are the meetings and proceedings of town, and township, and county municipal councils in Canada. The wholesale24 denunciations of disloyalty and treason against the people of a country was calculated to exasperate25 and produce the very feelings imputed26; and the proposal of the two Houses of Parliament to make the Governor of Massachusetts Bay a detective and informer-general against persons opposed to his administration and the measures of the British Ministry27, and the proposition to have them arrested and brought 3,000 miles over the ocean to England, for trial before a special commission, for treason or misprision of treason, show what unjust, unconstitutional, and foolish things Parliaments as well as individuals may sometimes perpetrate. Nothing has more impressed the writer, in going through this protracted28 war of words, preliminary to the unhappy war of swords, than the great superiority, even as literary compositions, much more as State documents, of the addresses and petitions of the Colonial Assemblies, and even public meetings, and the letters of their representatives, when compared with the dispatches of the British Ministry of that day and the writings of their partizans.
The resolutions and joint29 address of the Houses of Parliament, which were adopted in February, reached America in[Pg 355] April, and gave great offence to the colonists generally instead of exciting terror, especially the part of the address which proposed bringing alleged30 offenders31 from Massachusetts to be tried at a tribunal in Great Britain. Massachusetts had no General Assembly at that time, as Governor Barnard had dissolved the last Assembly, and the time prescribed by the Charter for calling one had not arrived; but the House of Burgesses of the old, loyal Church of England colony of Virginia took the state of all the colonies into serious consideration, passed several resolutions, and directed their Speaker to transmit them without delay to the Speakers of the Assemblies of all the colonies on the continent for their concurrence. In these resolutions the House of Burgesses declare—"That the sole right of imposing32 taxes on the inhabitants of this colony is now, and ever hath been, legally and constitutionally vested in the House of Burgesses, with consent of the Council, and of the King or his Governor for the time being; that it is the privilege of the inhabitants to petition their Sovereign for redress of grievances, and that it is lawful33 to procure34 the concurrence of his Majesty's other colonies in dutiful addresses, praying the Royal interposition in favour of the violated rights of America; that all trials for treason, misprision of treason, or for any felony or crime whatsoever35, committed by any persons residing in any colony, ought to be in his Majesty's courts within said colony, and that the seizing of any person residing in the colony, suspected of any crime whatsoever committed therein, and sending such person to places beyond the sea to be tried, is highly derogatory of the rights of British subjects, as thereby36 the inestimable privilege of being tried by jury from the vicinage, as well as the liberty of producing witnesses on such trial, will be taken away from the accused."
The House agreed also to an address to his Majesty, which stated, in the style of loyalty and real attachment37 to the Crown, a deep conviction that the complaints of the colonists were well founded. The next day Lord Botetourt, the Governor of Virginia, dissolved the House in the following words: "Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the House of Burgesses, I have heard of your resolves, and augur38 ill of their effects. You have made it my duty to dissolve you; and you are dissolved accordingly."
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The Assembly of South Carolina adopted resolutions similar to those of Virginia, as did the Lower House of Maryland and the Delaware counties, and the Assembly of North Carolina, and was on that account dissolved by Governor Tyron. Towards the close of the year, the Assembly of New York passed resolutions in concurrence with those of Virginia. The members of the House of Burgesses of Virginia, and of the Assembly of North Carolina, after their dissolution, met as private gentlemen, chose for moderators their late Speakers, and adopted resolutions against importing British goods. This was followed by other colonies, and the non-importation agreement became general. Boston had entered into the non-importation agreement as early as August, 1768, which was soon after adopted in Salem, the city of New York, and the province of Connecticut; but the agreement was not generally entered into until after the Virginia resolutions. "The meetings of non-importation associations were regularly held in the various provinces. Committees were appointed to examine all vessels40 arriving from Britain. Censures42 were freely passed on such as refused to concur17 in these associations, and their names were published in the newspapers as enemies of their country. The regular Acts of the Provincial Assemblies were not so much respected and obeyed as the decrees of these Committees."[309]
Governor Barnard could not delay calling the General Assembly of Massachusetts beyond the time prescribed by the Charter for its meeting in May; and when it met, its first act was to[Pg 357] appoint a Committee to wait on the Governor, and represent to him "that an armament by sea and land investing this metropolis43, and a military guard with cannon44 pointed39 at the door of the State House, where the Assembly is held, are inconsistent with the dignity and freedom with which they have a right to deliberate, consult, and determine," and added, "They expect that your Excellency will, as his Majesty's representative, give effectual orders for the removal of the above-mentioned forces by sea and land out of this port, and the gates of this city, during the session of the said Assembly." The Governor answered: "Gentlemen, I have no authority over his Majesty's ships in this port, or his troops within this town, nor can I give any orders for the removal of the same." The House persisted in declining to do business while surrounded with an armed force, and the Governor at length adjourned45 it to Cambridge.
On the 6th of July the Governor sent a message to the House with accounts of expenditures46 already incurred47 in quartering his Majesty's troops, desiring funds for their payment, and requiring a provision for the quartering of the troops in the town and on Castle Island, "according to Act of Parliament." The next day, among other things, the House passed the following resolutions:
"That a general discontent on account of the Revenue Acts, an expectation of the sudden arrival of a military power to enforce said Acts, an apprehension48 of the troops being quartered upon the inhabitants, the General Court (or Assembly) dissolved, the Governor refusing to call a new one, and the people almost[Pg 358] reduced to a state of despair, rendered it highly expedient49 and necessary for the people to convene50 their (town) committees to associate (in convention), consult, and advise the best means to promote peace and good order; to present their united complaints to the Throne, and jointly51 to pray for the Royal interposition in favour of their violated rights; nor can this procedure possibly be illegal, as they expressly disclaim7 all governmental acts.
"That the establishment of a standing52 army in this colony, in time of peace, is an invasion of national rights.
"That a standing army is not known as a part of the British constitution.
"That sending an armed force into the colony, under pretence53 of assisting the civil authority, is highly dangerous to the people, unprecedented54 and unconstitutional."
On the 12th of July the Governor sent a message to the House requesting an explicit55 answer to his message of the 6th, as to whether the House would or would not make provision for quartering the troops. After anxious deliberation, the unusually full House of 107 members present unanimously answered:
"As representatives, by the Royal Charter and the nature of our trust, we are only empowered to grant such aids as are reasonable, of which we are free and independent judges, at liberty to follow the dictates56 of our own understanding, without regard to the mandates57 of another. Your Excellency must, therefore, excuse us in this express declaration that as we cannot, consistently with our honour or interest, and much less with the duty we owe to our constituents58, so we shall never make provision for the purposes mentioned in your messages."
Governor Barnard rejoined, in his last words to the Assembly, "To his Majesty, and if he pleases to his Parliament, must be referred your invasion of the rights of the Imperial sovereignty. By your own acts you will be judged. Your publications are plain and explicit, and need no comment." And he prorogued59 the Assembly until the 10th day of January, 1770. He wrote to Lord Hillsborough: "Their last message exceeds everything." Three weeks afterwards, the 1st of August, unexpectedly to himself, Barnard was recalled. He had expected to be appointed Governor of Virginia; but on his arrival in England he found[Pg 359] that the British Ministers had promised the London-American merchants that they would never employ him again in America.[310] He answered the purposes of the corrupt60 Ministerial oligarchy61 in England, to mislead the Sovereign on one hand and oppress the colonists on the other. But for him there would have been no ships of war or military sent to Boston; no conflicts between the citizens and soldiers; probably no revolutionary war. Barnard's departure from Boston was signalized by the ringing of bells, and firing of cannon, and bonfires at night. He was succeeded in the government by Lieutenant-Governor Hutchinson, a man who had rendered great service to his native country by his History, and his labours in the Legislature for ten years, but who had become extremely unpopular by his secret support of the English Revenue Acts and duplicate policy of Barnard, whom he at length equalled in avarice62 and deception63, and greatly excelled in ability.
One of the most effective and least objectionable means of obtaining the repeal64 of the Revenue Acts was the agreement not to purchase or import goods of British manufacture or goods imported from British ports. At best the revenues arising from the operation of these Acts would not amount to ￡20,000 a year. They were maintained in England as a badge of the absolute authority of Parliament; they were resisted in America as a badge of colonial independence of taxation—without [Pg 360]representation. There was no crime, political or moral, in refusing to buy goods of any kind, much less goods burdened with what they considered unlawful duties. Mr. Bancroft remarks:
"The agreement of non-importation originated in New York, where it was rigidly65 carried into effect. No acrimony appeared; every one, without so much as a single dissentient, approved of the combination as wise and legal; persons in the highest stations declared against the Revenue Acts, and the Governor wished their repeal. His acquiescence66 in the association for coercing67 that repeal led the moderate men among the patriots68 of New York to plan a union of the colonies in an American Parliament (similar to that which now exists in the Dominion69 of Canada), preserving the Governments of the several colonies, and having the members of the General Parliament chosen by their respective Legislatures. They were preparing the greatest work of their generation, to be matured at a later day. Their confidence of immediate70 success assisted to make them alike disinclined to independence and firm in their expectation of bringing England to reason by suspending their mutual71 trade.
"The people of Boston, stimulated72 by the unanimity73 and scrupulous74 fidelity75 of New York, were impatient that a son of Barnard, two sons of Hutchinson, and about five others, would not accede76 to the agreement. At a great meeting of merchants in Faneuil Hall, Hancock proposed to send for Hutchinson's two sons, hinting, what was true, that the Lieutenant-Governor was himself a partner with them in their late extraordinary importations of tea. As the best means of coercion77, it was voted not to purchase anything of the recusants. Subscription78 papers to that effect were carried around from house to house, and everybody complied."
"A letter from New York next invited Boston to extend the agreement against importing indefinitely, until every Act imposing duties should be repealed79; and on the 17th (of October), by the great influence of Molineux, Otis, Samuel Adams, and William Cooper, this new form was adopted."[311] The opposition80[Pg 361] in Boston to the reception of goods from England became so general and determined81, that even Governor Hutchinson quailed82 before it, and the soldiers stood silent and inactive witnesses of it. Mr. Bancroft says:
"Early in October (1769), a vessel41 laden83 with goods, shipped by English houses themselves, arrived in Boston. The military officers had been speculating on what would be done, and Colonel Dalrymple stood ready to protect the factors. But his assistance was not demanded. Hutchinson permitted the merchants to reduce the consignees to submission84, and even to compel an English adventurer to re-embark his goods. One and another of the Boston recusants yielded; even the two sons of Hutchinson himself, by their father's direction, gave up 18 chests of tea, and entered fully85 into the (non-importation) agreement. Four still held out, and their names, with those of the two sons of Hutchinson, whose sincerity86 was questioned, stood recorded as infamous87 on the journals of the town of Boston. On the 15th another ship arrived; again the troops looked on as bystanders, and witnessed the complete victory of the people."[312]
But in the following month, November, a new turn was given to public thought, and new feelings of joy were inspired throughout America, by a dispatch from Lord Hillsborough to the King's personal friend, Lord Botetourt, Governor of Virginia, promising88 the repeal of the obnoxious89 Revenue Acts, and to impose no further taxes on the colonies. Lord Hillsborough says:
"I can take upon me to assure you, notwithstanding information to the contrary from men with factious90 and seditious[Pg 362] views, that his Majesty's present Administration have at no time entertained a design to propose to Parliament to lay any further taxes upon America for the purpose of raising a revenue; and that it is at present their intention to propose, the next session of Parliament, to take off the duties upon glass, paper and colours, upon consideration of such duties having been laid contrary to the true principles of commerce." Lord Hillsborough further informed Lord Botetourt that "his Majesty relied upon his prudence91 and fidelity to make such explanation of his Majesty's measures as would tend to remove prejudices and to re-establish mutual confidence and affection between the mother country and the colonies."
In Lord Botetourt's address to the Virginia Assembly, transmitting a copy of the dispatch, he said:
"It may possibly be objected that as his Majesty's present Administration are not immortal92, their successors may be inclined to attempt to undo93 what the present Ministers shall have attempted to perform; and to that objection I can give but this answer: that it is my firm opinion that the plan I have stated to you will certainly take place, and that it will never be departed from; and so determined am I for ever to abide94 by it, that I will be content to be declared infamous if I do not, to the last hour of my life, at all times, in all places, and upon all occasions, exert every power with which I either am, or ever shall be, legally invested, in order to obtain and maintain for the continent of America that satisfaction which I have been authorized95 to promise this day by the confidential96 servants of our gracious Sovereign, who, to my certain knowledge, rates his honour so high, that he would rather part with his crown than preserve it by deceit."
These assurances were received by the Virginians with transports of joy, viewing them as they did as abandoning, never to be resumed, the design of raising a revenue in America by Act of Parliament. The General Assembly of Virginia, in reply to Lord Botetourt's address, thus expressed themselves:
"We are sure our most gracious Sovereign, under whatever changes may happen in his confidential servants, will remain immutable97 in the ways of truth and justice, and that he is incapable98 of deceiving his faithful subjects; and we esteem99 your[Pg 363] lordship's information not only as warranted, but even sanctified by the Royal word."[313]
It was understood and expected on all sides that the unproductive tax on tea would be repealed with the other articles enumerated100 in the Revenue Acts. Such was the wish of Governor Botetourt; such was the advice of Eden, the newly appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Maryland; Golden, who now administered the government of New York, on account of the death of More, assured the Legislature of the greatest probability that the late duties imposed by authority of Parliament, so much to the dissatisfaction of the colonies, would be taken off the ensuing session.[314]
"Thus," says Mr. Bancroft, "all America confined its issue with Great Britain to the single question of the Act imposing a duty on tea." "Will not a repeal of all other duties satisfy the colonists?" asked one of the Ministerial party of Franklin in London. And he frankly101 answered, 'I think not; it is not the sum paid in the duty on tea that is complained of as a burden, but the principle of the Act expressed in the preamble102.' This faithful advice was communicated to the Ministry; but what effect could it produce when Hillsborough administered the colonies, with Barnard for his counsellor?[315]
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[309] Ramsay's Colonial History, Vol. I., Chapter iii., p. 359.
The following are the resolutions subscribed103 by the merchants and traders of New York, dated 27th August, 1768:
I. That we will not send for from Great Britain, either upon our own account or on commission, this fall, any other goods than what we have already ordered.
II. That we will not import any kind of merchandise from Great Britain, either on our own account or on commission, or any otherwise, nor purchase from any factor or others, any kind of goods imported from Great Britain directly, or by way of any of the other colonies, or by way of the West Indies, that shall be shipped from Great Britain after the first day of November, until the forementioned Acts of Parliament, imposing duties on paper, glass, etc., be repealed; except only the articles of coals, salt, sailcloth, wool, card-wool, grindstones, chalk, lead, tin, sheet-copper, and German steel.
III. We further agree not to import any kind of merchandise from Hamburg and Holland, directly from thence, nor by any other way whatsoever, more than we have already ordered, except tiles and bricks.
IV. We also promise to countermand104 all orders given from Great Britain, or since the 16th instant, by the first conveyance105; ordering those goods not to be sent, unless the forementioned duties are taken off.
V. And we further agree, that if any person or persons subscribing106 hereto shall take any advantage, by importing any kind of goods that are herein restricted, directly or indirectly107, contrary to the true intent and meaning of this agreement, such person or persons shall by us be deemed enemies to their country.
VI. Lastly, we agree, that if any goods shall be consigned108 or sent over to us, contrary to our agreement in this subscription, such goods so imported shall be lodged109 in some public warehouse110, there to be kept under confinement111 until the forementioned Acts be repealed.
[310] The following is the portrait which Mr. Bancroft has drawn112 of the character of Barnard, and I cannot deny its accuracy:
"Trained as a wrangling113 proctor in an Ecclesiastical Court, he had been a quarrelsome disputant rather than a statesman. His parsimony114 went to the extreme of meanness; his avarice was insatiable and restless. So long as he connived115 at smuggling116, he reaped a harvest in that way; when Grenville's sternness inspired alarm, it was his study to make the most money out of forfeitures117 and penalties. Professing118 to respect the Charter, he was unwearied in zeal119 for its subversion120; declaring his opposition to taxation by Parliament, he urged it with all his power. Asserting most solemnly that he had never asked for troops, his letters reveal his perpetual importunity121 for ships of war and an armed force. His reports were often false—partly with design, partly from the credulity of panic. He placed everything in the most unfavourable light, and was ready to tell every tale and magnify trivial rumours122 into acts of treason. He was despondent123 when conciliation124 prevailed in England. The officers of the army and navy despised him for his cowardice125 and duplicity, and did not conceal126 their contempt." (History of the United States, Vol. VI., Chap. xli., p. 291.)
[311] History of the United States, Vol. VI., Chap. xlii., pp. 308, 309, 311. For the first non-importation resolutions adopted by the merchants of New York, see note on page 356.
"The trade between Great Britain and her colonies on the continent of America, on an average of three years (from 1766 to 1769), employed 1,078 ships and 28,910 seamen127. The value of goods exported from Great Britain on the same average was ￡3,370,900; and of goods exported from the colonies to Great Britain and elsewhere ￡3,924,606." (Holmes' Annals, etc., Vol. II., p. 162.)
[312] History of the United States, Vol. VI., Chap, xlii., p. 311.
"To the military its inactivity was humiliating. Soldiers and officers spoke128 of the people angrily as rebels. The men were rendered desperate by the firmness with which the local magistrates129 put them on trial for every transgression130 of the provincial laws. Arrests provoked resistance. 'If they touch you, run them through the bodies,' said a captain of the 29th Regiment131 to his soldiers, and he was indicted132 for the speech."—Ib., p. 314.
[313] Quoted from Ramsay's Colonial History, Vol. I., Chap. iii., pp. 363, 364.
[314] Bancroft's History, Vol. VI., Chap, xlii., pp. 315, 316.
"The general tendency to conciliation prevailed. Since the merchants of Philadelphia chose to confine their agreement for non-importation to the repeal of Townshend's Act, the merchants of Boston, for the sake of union, gave up their more extensive covenant133, and reverted134 to their first stipulations. The dispute about the Billeting Act had ceased in New Jersey135 and Pennsylvania; the Legislature of New York, pleased with the permission to issue colonial bills of credit, disregarded the appeal from Macdougall to the betrayed inhabitants of that city and colony, and sanctioned a compromise by a majority of one. South Carolina was commercially the most closely connected with England. The annual exports from Charleston reached in value about two and a quarter millions of dollars, of which three-fourths went directly or indirectly to England. But however closely the ties of interest bound Carolina to England, the people were high-spirited; and, notwithstanding the great inconvenience to their trade, they persevered136 in the strict observance of their (non-importation) association, looking with impatient anxiety for the desired repeal of the Act complained of."—Ib., pp. 317, 318.
[315] History of the United States, Vol. VI., Chap, xlii., p. 318.
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