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Bancroft's American Revolution Adams
Observation-Disclosures.
Mr.. Bancroft's descriptions Of the men who be.
came the opponents of public sentiment, and whose
labors did so much to form country and fashion
its political system, are exceedingly interesting ana
make most attractive feature of his volume.
John Adams down to 1774, makes comparatively
but little figure in the politics Of Massachusetts.
the leading men on the patriot side being Samuei
Adams Joseph Hawley and Joseph Warren; but IN
June, l774. he enlisted for the war. His entrance
then is thus described: -
"A month before John Adams had said, Il have
very little connection with public affairs, and hope
to have less For many years he had refused to at.
tend town meetings; he had kept sloof from the
committee of correspondence, even in the time when
concerted
ing of that day dawned on him in private life; the
evening saw him representative of Massachusetts
~ .he ge"U.-i enneress- That s9mmeE he followed
the circuit for the last time. Great Britain, thus
Sewa his friend and associate at the BAR exPostu,
lated with him. as they stroled together on the hill
that overhangs Casco Bay, with its thousand isles,
Great Britain is determined on her system; and
her power is irresistible That very determination
of Great Britain in her system determines mine, an
swered Adams swim or sink, live or die, survive
vpith 10 nut mn
mination' The White Mountains on the one side,
and the ocean on the other, were witnesses to the
patriots 'Isee we must part, rejoined Sewali
but this adieu is the sharpes thorn on which ever
set my foot"
John Jay, young lawyer OF New York, IN July,
l774, is thus introduced -
descended from Huguenot refugees, educated in
the city its college, Of the severest purity OF NOR.
ais, hard STUDENT able writer, ready speaker;
recently connected with the family of Livingston by
marriage; his superior endowments, his activity and
zeal made him for quarter of century distinguished
in his native State At that time he joined the dignity
of manhood to the energy of youth. He was both
shy and proud and his pride, though it became less
visible suffered diminution from time. Tenacious
of his purposes and his opinions, sensitive to indg-
mites and prone to sudden resentments, not remark
able for self possession with countenance not
trained to conceament, neither easy of access, nor
quick in his advances, gifted with no deep insight
into character, he had neither talents nor inclination
for intrigue; and but for his ambition, in which
none exceeded him. he would have seemed formed
for study and retirement"
At the same time, and in public meeting held in
"The Fields" in New York city, to cheer and sus-
tain Boston in its day of trial by the port bill, ap.
peared Alexander Hamilton:
cit has been kept in memory that on this occasion
young man from abroad, so small and delicate in
his organization that he appeared to be much young
er than perhaps he really was, took part in the de-
bate before the crowd. They asked one another the
name of the gifted stranger, who shone like star
first seen above haze, of whose rising no one had
taken note. He proved to be Alexander Hamilton,
West Indian. His mother, while he was yet
child, had left him orphan and poor. A fathers
care he seems never to have known The first writ
ten trace of his existence is in 1885, when his name
appears witness to legal paper executed in the
Danish island of Santa Cruz Three years later,
srovsns Of yss4t h Il Rs na as
row bounds of his island cage, and to friend Of his
own years confessed his ambition Il would willing
ly risk my life,' said he, though not my charac-
ter, to exalt my station mean to prepare the way
of futurity; we have seen such schemes successful
when the protector is constant That way he pre-
pared by integrity of conduct diligence and study.
After an education a merchant during which he
once at least conducted a voyage and once had the
charge of his employers business, he found himself
able to repair to New York where he entered the col
ege before the end of ITS. Trained from childhood to
take of himself he possessed manly self-reli-
ance His first sympathies in the contest had been
on the British side against the Americans; but he
changed his opinions and in July, 1774 cosmo-
potan New York. where he had neither father, nor
mother nor sister, nor brother, nor one person in
whose veins ran the same blood as his own, adopted
the volunteer from the tropics as its son."
FRANKLN-lke Samuel Adams like Joseph War
ren like Thomas Jefferson, like Washington, steadi-
ly grows in stature and fame. 1t is but simple JUS
tice to write that the there is revealed about
oil fhocou cha aotQ fhp more
alton do they appear. OF Franklin, who, in June,
1774, was in England, Mr.. Bancroft says
"The eyes of the world were riveted on Frank
lin and George the Third. The former was environ
ed by dangers; Gage was his willing accuser from
Boston; the hatred which Hutchinson bore him
never slambered; the ministry affected to consider
him as the cause of all the troubles; he knew him
self 10 be in daily peril of arrest; but the great
friends of the colonies entreated him to stay, and
some glimmering Of hope remained that the manufac-
interpose their mediating influence The king on
his part never once harbored the thought of conces
sion; and left the choice Of war peace to de-
pend on the obedience of Massachusetts,"
The details which Mr.. Bancroft gives, from time
to tme of Franklins service in England are intense
ly interesting and much of the matter is new. At
time when disparaging things have been said Of
Franklin by those who certainly do not understand
him. it is peculiarly gratifying to read this truly go
rious record and the fine judgment which is pro-
nounced of his service at this period. We cannot
forbear to extract the relation Mr. Bancroft gives of
his departure from England. 1t follows statement
of the proceedings in the house of lords. March &c.
IT'S and after citation Of Lord SANDWICHES abu-
sive speech on the Amer,cans-calling them COO
ards -
"Franklin, as he heard the insinuations of Sand
witch against the honesty of his countrymen, turned
on his heel in wrath nothing was left for him but
to 60 home where duty called him. The French
minister, who revered his supreme ability, sought
with him one last interview. Il spoke to him,
wrote GARNER to Vergennes, 'of the part which
president Jeannin had taken in establishing the
independence and forming the government Of the