Heroes and statesmen of America, a popular book of American biography (1878) (14740965176)

Identifier: heroesstatesmeno00mcca (find matches)
Title: Heroes and statesmen of America, a popular book of American biography
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: McCabe, James D(abney), 1842-1883. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Statesmen
Publisher: Philadelphia, Chicago (etc.) P. W. Ziegler & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



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an of Mr. Adams could be en-dorsed by the Provincial Assembly, the General Assembly ofVirginia on the 12th of March, 1773, adopted a resolution pro-posing a general correspondence between the Colonies, thuscarrying out the design which Mr. Adams had intended to ef-fect through Massachusetts. The plan was put in executionat once, and in the spring of 1773 Committees of Correspond-ence were established in each Colony. Samuel Adams wasenabled through these Committees to speak to all the Coloniesas well as to his own province, and the Massachusetts Com-mittee sent forth the stirring appeals to the other Colonies tobe prepared to defend their rights to the utmost and to be sat-isfied with no half-way settlement. Mr. Adams took an active part in the resistance of Bostonto the landing of the taxed tea, and gave the signal for itsdestruction on the i6th of December, 1773. He then drew upan account of the proceeding which was forwarded by the Com-mittee of Correspondence to the other Colonies.
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SAMUEL ADAMS. 281 Repeated efforts were made by the royal authorities to in-duce Mr. Adams to abandon the cause of his country. Hewas threatened with especial punishment, and it was intimatedto him that the royal favor and considerable pecuniary advan-tage would reward his desertion to the side of the King; butneither threats nor bribes could shake his fidelity. Soon afterGeneral Gage was made Governor of Massachusetts, he wasauthorized to make an effort to draw Mr. Adams from thepopular cause. Colonel Fenton waited upon Mr. Adams, andexpressed to him the great desire of the British Governmentto settle the troubles in the Colonies peacefully. He said tohim that he had been authorized by Governor Gage to assurehim that he was instructed by the home government to conferupon him such rewards as would be satisfactory, on conditionthat he would engage to cease his opposition to the measuresof the government. He added, that it was the advice of Gov-ernor Gage to Mr. Adams not to incur the f