Joseph Wood Krutch Quotes
The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
Krutch, Joseph Wood. The Twelve Seasons. W. Sloane Associates, 1949, p. 165.
The colony created out of a political dispute with the Massachusetts Bay Colony, was created when in June of 1636, Hooker and his entire congregation, driving their cattle and carting their belongings, left Massachusetts and set out for the Connecticut Valley, founding Hartford and a new colony. The following year the constitution was written and ratified. It was in many ways similar to the Massachusetts legal system except that it was written and could not easily be changed. However, there were two important historical innovations. First, while Massachusetts had limited voting rights to members in good standing of the Puritan Church, The Fundamental Orders provided for separation of church and state and allowed others (males only) to vote as well. See {624151}. The other innovation was that this appears to be the first introduction of term limits in America. It limited the Governor to a single term, unlike Massachusetts where Governor Winthrop was a fixture.
The penchant for Southern conservatives to always blame outsiders whenever there were local people demanding change or reform may have begun here. It reached its peak in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. There was however, a conscious effort of the Massachusetts Patriots to have descriptions of their revolutionary activities sent as newspaper articles throughout all the colonies quickly after the events. The Americans thus were able to frame all the issues, before the reports could get to London and the British thus got their viewpoints to the public weeks and months after the revolutionists did.
While the official battles of the American Revolution did not begin until 1776, parts of the American colonies were in a de facto state of rebellion and the British could not enforce their laws. See {636925} for another of the King’s statements.
2nd Earl of Guilford. Britain had a double standard of how they would fight wars and battles. If the contention was a rebellion, more mild military means would be used. But if a foreign war, they would use all means. For example, the use of mercenaries would not be used in most rebellions. With this letter, Lord North was escalating the American Revolution into a “foreign war”. As a result, not only would mercenaries be used, but so would Indian allies whose mode of war was not as restrained as the British troops. It also allowed for emancipating slaves and inviting them to take up arms. With this quotation, the American Revolution was raised to a new and more serious military level. See {634115} for the instructions to implement this policy.
The New England Restraining Act 1st Marquess of Bath
At that time, Russia and Germany were autocracy, and the ruler could simply take the English money and force the soldiers to fight in a war they had not stake in nor understood.
American history as several instances in which America wanted to invade Canada and add territory to the United States. See {636940}. This was the first.
The American plan was to capture Quebec and add that province to the 13 colonies. See {636940} . However, the American officers botched the invasion and did not attack as soon as they arrived when the British had almost no troops to defend Quebec.
The message was conveyed by the Secretary of State, Sir George Calvert (Lord Baltimore). Parliament and the British King were jockeying for position in their relative powers. King James took the position that Parliament could NOT make laws that affected the American Colonies. Parliament disagreed. Later, some of the American patriots would use this quotation to claim that they were only subject to the King and not to Parliament. For related quotes on the King/Parliament issue, see {639144}, {639143}, {639142}, {639141}, {639140}, & {639137}
document he wrote. He and Benjamin Franklin were sent to France to try and raise support for the revolution in troops, war material, or loans. Franklin was much more popular in France and Adams included Holland where he tried to show the Dutch how similar the histories and traditions of the two countries were. He succeeded in obtaining loans that were needed badly.
This is the same man who introduced the Stamp Act 12 years before which started the whole problem in America. See {74956}.
See {641497} for a quote from the Grenville speech. Fox, a conservative on most issues was an absolute radical on the issue of America. To aggravate the hawks in parliament, he used to dress in the colors of George Washington’s uniform to show his support once the war broke out.
Ministers refers to the Government Ministers, not to clergy.
The professor did not agree with these reasons and took the position that England was foolish in their use of military force. However, in America we rarely hear the English side of the dispute that led to war between England and her American colonies.
Joseph Wood Krutch was an American writer, critic, and naturalist who wrote nature books on the American Southwest and developing a pantheistic philosophy.
