Loyalists not to be punished on account of having joined the British army.
They were no respecter of persons, and Loyalists of every grade came under their surveil- * It was used in the procession that welcomed La Fayette to that city in 1824, and was then deposited in Peale's Museum.
In West's picture of the Reception of the American Loyalists by Great Britain, in the year 1783, Governor Franklin is a prominent personage-represented.
On the departure of Congress, the active Loyalists assumed a bold tone; and General Putnam, who was sent thither to fortify the city, was in daily expectation of an insurrection in favor of the royal cause.
With true womanly feeling, she interceded for the life of the prisoner, attended to the wounded Loyalists through the day, and at midnight started for home.
He so conciliated the Regulators that many of them were firm Loyalists when the governor was finally driven away by the Whigs.
At early dawn, bagpipes were heard, and the notes of a bugle, ringing out upon the frosty air, called the eighteen hundred Loyalists to arms.
The effect of this defeat of the Loyalists was of vast importance to the Patriot cause in North Carolina.
The kindness extended to the prisoners and their families won the esteem of all, and many Loyalists were converted to the Republican faith by the noble conduct of the victors.
As Lee approached Colonel Pyle, the Loyalists raised the shout, "God save the king!
The next day[[Feb 21]] the Americans crossed the Haw, and were informed that the Loyalists between that and the Deep River were certainly assembling to join the earl.
They feared the Loyalists in their midst quite as much as the approaching enemy.
Procuring a new outfit, he returned to New York, where the loyalists had the pleasure of welcoming him in September, 1777.
Loosley and Elms remained in the city, and becoming landlords of the King's Head, showed themselves the most pronounced loyalists and tried in every way to please the British officers.
Sidenote: Refugee Club] Besides the army, the population of New York had increased in numbers by returning loyalists and by refugees from all parts, who had come in through the lines.
He went out with other loyalists to Nova Scotia, where a few years later he was keeping a tavern.
He would not remain at Khojend, however; he felt that he had already taken too much from the loyalists there, so in a state of irresolution and uncertainty he made for the border land of the Pamirs beyond the White Mountains.
So he looked round the assembly of loyalists who had met to convince him in his grandmother's apartments in the stone fort, and said briefly: "To horse, gentlemen!
Again, his retreat amongst tried loyalists might save the situation altogether; for he would be ready for instant retaliation if needs be.
A little detachment of loyalists headed by Kasim Beg, arriving in hot haste with renewed hope!
Brant here did not follow up his success, but returned to the Susquehanna, where he and his loyalists wrought the fearful historic carnage among the settlements in the Wyoming Valley, and in July attacked the Mohawk Valley settlements.
But I thought old Mr. Carvel to be one of the warmest loyalists in the colonies.
And it was because class distinctions were so strongly marked that it took so long to bring loyalists and patriots of high rank to the sword's point.
And so a local defence force has been formed in all districts, with the exception of those--happily the least important in the Colony--in which the population is extremely small and the loyalists are very few.
The important part now played, even from the purely military point of view, by the South African loyalists ought, as it seems to me, to have a good effect not only in South Africa but in England.
While Boer and rebel combined in their efforts to rid themselves of the man who had thwarted their ambitions, the loyalists closed their ranks and stood firm in his support.
He continued: "Clemency to rebels is a policy which has the hearty sympathy of Her Majesty's Government, but justice to loyalists is an obligation of duty and honour.
And this principle would seem all the easier to adhere to because there is really nothing which the great body of the South African loyalists desire which it is not for the honour and advantage of the mother country to insist upon.
In this, as in the crisis of the negotiations before the war, the loyalists found in Lord Milner their "representative man.
Some of those were settled at Maugerville where they had made considerable improvements before the loyalists came to the country.
It could not have been long before the arrival of the Loyalists that this happened.
Many of those Loyalists were in the prime of life when they came to this country; and most of them had young families.
The inhabitants are the descendents of the Loyalists who came to the Province at the close of the American revolution, with a mixture of Europeans and Americans.
Many of the Loyalists who came in the spring had gone further up the river, but they were little better off for provisions than we were at St. Ann's.
A party of Loyalists who came before us late in the spring, had gone up the river further, but they were no better off than those at St. Ann's.
The next and most numerous class of inhabitants are the descendants of the Loyalistswho came to the Province at the conclusion of the American revolution, and whose sufferings I have already slightly noticed.
I shall pause here to relate an incident, which will indicate the source from which Peter Fisher derived the information he gives us concerning the arrival of the Loyalists at St. Ann's and their subsequent hardships.
As the enthusiasm of the Patriots increased, that of the Loyalists increased also.
These later years seem to have been the hey-day of the Loyalists in most of the Colonies, although the Patriots passed severe laws against them, sequestrating their property and even banishing them.
Lacking positive orders to the contrary, Ferguson will fight--we all know that; and if he should be defeated 'twill hopelessly undo his work among the border loyalists and set us back another twelvemonth.
The rebels were now merged almost imperceptibly into loyalists but a few still held out, and two of the more callous--I will not affront the living world with their names--went so far as to send out invitations to a party of Quadrille.
The end will be that both loyalists and traitors will be more discontented than ever--a poor result after so much fuss and waste of precious time.
A friend has furnished me with a few gems from the orations of the Dillon aforesaid, whose threat of what would be done to loyalists under an Irish Parliament has recently attracted so much notice.
And yet Loyalistsare told to trust in them and all will be well!
Irish Loyalists will not soon forget the early part of 1893.
If the people of England and Scotland saw Nationalists as I have seen them they would not force Home Rule on the Loyalists of Ulster so as to leave them at the mercy of such a party.
To narrow loyalist liberties, to tax loyalist industry, to create a loyalist rebellion, and to have the loyalists shot by other loyalists is an excellent all-round scheme.
Fortunately for the Ulster city, the loyalistsnumber three to one, which fact accounts for its general cleanliness, the thriving aspect of its commercial concerns, the decency and order of its well-kept thoroughfares.
In regions more remote the scattered Loyalists lacked the consolation arising from numbers and propinquity to England, and accordingly their tremors continued, and, in a smaller degree, continue still.
Already the loyalists and Canadians were deserting in numbers, and his Indians, having little opportunity for plundering and scalping, were abandoning him altogether.
Burgoyne meanwhile (August 26) was writing to Germain that the campaign was looking badly, and the loyalistsnot as helpful as he hoped.
The ministry had saved that soldier's pride as much as they could in desiring to have him nearer at hand for counsel;[435] and the sympathetic loyalists whom he had befriended paid him their compliments in an address.
The effect of the battle in England to discourage the expatriated loyalists is told in Hutchinson's Diary, ii.
Jones[290] says that the loyalists had joined the Congress to help in claiming redress for grievances, but that the approval of these Resolves rendered their continuance with the Congress in its measures impossible.
The loyaliststermed this Schuyler's "Peacock Expedition", because the men decorated themselves with feathers from the peacocks at Johnson Hall.
The proclamation of May 22d threatened vengeance on all who should prevent the loyalists from coming in (Remembrancer, x.
And some tracings from the footprints of the tories or loyalists in America contributed by Theodorus Bailey Myers (Albany, 1882), being no.
About 1783, permanent settlements on the shores of the bay were made by United Empire Loyalists and disbanded officers and men of regiments serving in Canada.
Created widespread dissatisfaction by bad management of the affairs of the Loyalistsin Nova Scotia.
A town on the south-west coast of the province of Nova Scotia; founded by United Empire Loyalists in 1783; first known as Port Roseway.
Upon the termination of the armistice, the militia generally returned to their posts with alacrity, accompanied by a number of old loyalists unfit for service in the field, but capable of performing garrison duty.
M'Donald, Allan, the husband of FLORA, among the Scotch loyalists in North Carolina, ii.
Norfolk, distress of theloyalists on board the ships at, ii.
Scorpion--commissions sent by, to the Highlanders and other loyalists in North Carolina, ii.
The whigs greatly rejoiced at their deliverance, while the families of loyalists were saddened by the change.
The mass of the loyalists went to Nova Scotia and Canada; others to the Island of Abaco, in the Bahamas; while not a few of the more distinguished or wealthy retired to England.
Rector of Trinity Parish, having made himself very obnoxious to the patriots, concluded to follow the loyalists of his flock to Nova Scotia, and therefore resigned his rectorship Nov.
I pass within two miles of the melancholy spot every month, and often converse with those who know every particular relative to it, both Loyalists and Rebels.
Here I met ten or twelve Loyalists with fire arms; two or three of their company were just murdered by the Rebel picquets, and some more wounded.
Thirdly, the Waterford Militia's disobedience of Orders,--had they retreated without a very extraordinary miracle the Loyalists would have fallen a prey to their unmerciful yet unprovoked Enemies.
Sir William was overjoyed; he went to Gloucester at once, he flew his flag there, and called all loyalists to join him.
The loyalists of Gloucester, some of whom Bacon had disarmed, were ready to rally round Sir William.
The loyalists had collected a considerable force in the Venezuelan province of Barinas, with which they proposed to advance into Pamplona.
Bolivar, meanwhile, had had some hard fighting with the stubborn loyalists of Pasto, and the issue remained doubtful until news of the victory of Pichincha was received.
Marino refused to agree, and only the activity of the loyalists prevented a war between him and Bolivar.
The loyalists of Venezuela, Ecuador, and southern New Granada had put down the insurgents in their own provinces.
The municipal governments were preserved, and the Spanish system of taxation continued, but patriot republicans displaced loyalists in all the offices.
The property of Pizarro's friends was confiscated; the prisons filled with wretched victims; many were put to death; many more mutilated or flogged; even the staunchest loyalists were not safe.
The loyalistsin Pasto were now completely isolated.
The loyalists attacked at a disadvantage and without hope.
Although Bolivar had in the meantime been checked in his southward march on Quito by the loyalists of southern Colombia, Sucre alone destroyed the Spanish army which had held Ecuador for so many years.
I know it will be said, 'Let us attend to the suffering loyalists first.
One case especially was of such a flagrant nature that it illustrates how far the malice of these so-called loyalists went and the harm which their conduct did to the British Government.
Lee, with his legion, by a stratagem surprised four hundred armed loyalistsunder Colonel Pyle, of whom ninety were killed and many wounded.
Sending out small parties of horse, he captured the wives of several of the principal loyalists then with the governor, and among them the lady of Colonel Bacon, Sr.
Some of the loyalists afterwards reported that he died of a loathsome disease, and by a visitation of God; which is disproven by T.
In this way his lordship conveyed away the most obnoxiousloyalists securely to New York; but Lord Cornwallis, in soliciting this favor, pledged himself that no officer should go in this way without Washington's consent.
His lordship was prompted to such acts of discipline not only by his moderation and humanity, but also by a desire to avoid any new exasperation of the people, and by a hope of alluring the loyalists to his standard.
The enemies of government are so numerous and so vigilant over the conduct of every man that the loyalists have been so intimidated that they have entirely shrunk away," wrote Dunmore in July, 1775.
The act of pardon ended the plundering of the estates of the former rebels, and the aggrieved loyalists were encouraged to seek redress through the Assembly.
She held such frequent meetings at her home that the loyalistsbecame known as the Green Spring Faction.
But reform was just what the loyalists did not want.
Two subjects involving the greatest difficulty of arrangement were the compensation of the Loyalists and the settlement of commercial indebtedness.
The historian of the Loyalists of Massachusetts, James H.
Thus, while forces were at work favorable to democracy, the gentry remained in control of affairs after the Revolution, although their numbers were reduced by the emigration of the Loyalists and their power was lessened.
The other question, that of compensating the Loyalists for the loss of their property, was not so simple a matter, for the whole story of the Revolution was involved.
The southernloyalists are willing, as I understand, to furnish their share of the tax for the support of the war; but they should also furnish their quota of men, which they have not thus far done.
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