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Bancroft, vi, 461, 462. Bancroft, vi, 498. Avery, "History of the United States," v, 190. "American Revolution," Part I, 181. Early in May of 1774 Hutchinson, ostensibly called to England to advise the king, gave up his offices in Massachusetts. His exile was approaching. Never again was he to see the fair hill of Milton, nor to look from its top upon the town and harbor that he loved.
"There are two hundred men down there in the corner and in the woods," and he rapidly sketched the position. "It's all right then, I guess," the Elder decided. "They'll get along without me. Tell Morris I'm at my chores." Beginning his work again, he added, "I've something to do hyar." From the old man's manner Bancroft was convinced that solicitation would be a waste of time.
Bancroft from which I will make some extracts, as he has the best sources of knowledge in Paris. "Then I went to Mignet, who, you know, is politically the friend of Thiers. He pointed out to me the condition of France, and drew for me a picture of what it was and of the change. I begin to see the difference between France and us. Here they are accustomed to BE governed.
Alas for these visions of reform! A few years after the adoption of this new constitution by California, Hubert H. Bancroft wrote: "Those objects which it particularly aimed at, it failed to achieve. The effect upon corporations disappointed its authors and supporters.
Holyoke, and following his directions they drove southeast, leaving behind them shady Northampton, Smith College, and delightful memories of Jonathan Edwards, George Bancroft, and others. A single white parasol was quite enough to protect two lovers from the sun's rays.
Was this what is known as Drake's Bay or popularly as Jack's Bay, southeast of Point los Reyes, or was it the Bay of San Francisco? Justin Winsor, in his Narrative and Critical History of America, and Hubert Howe Bancroft, in his History of California, discuss this matter in an exhaustive manner; and the reader after sifting all the evidence afforded, will still be free to form his own judgment.
The history of "Grenville's Stamp Act" is adequately set forth by Grahame and Bancroft, whose respective accounts present its most important features and its fate in the hands of American patriots. The calamities of the French and Indian War had scarcely ended when the germ of another war was planted which soon grew up and produced deadly fruit.
He told me of the jubilee of Bancroft which was about to be celebrated with marked honours. Fifty years before Bancroft had "made his doctor" at Göttingen, one of the earliest Americans to achieve that distinction, and the German universities meant to show emphatically their recognition of his merit.
Holding him up, Bancroft saw he had tripped over a mound of white dust. A thought struck him. He threw himself off the horse, and tasted the stuff; he was right; it was salt! No wonder he could not drive the cattle; no wonder they lowed as if in pain the ground had been salted. He remounted and hastened to the corral.
And now, with three observations, I will conclude what I have to say about the visit to America in 1842. He seems to have known, more or less intimately, the chief writers of the time Washington Irving, Channing, Dana, Bryant, Longfellow, Bancroft; but his intercourse with them he held sacred, and he made no literary capital out of it.
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