Word: pennsylvania
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...fortune in general possess." Virginia's Carter Braxton worried similarly about the "democratical" tendencies of New Englanders. Some men in the north, meantime, scorn the southerners for their dependence on slave labor. In all sections, there persists a powerful streak of Toryism. In the Congress itself are men like Pennsylvania's John Dickinson, who, though not a Tory, held out for reconciliation with England, arguing that the break was unnecessary, or at least too sudden...
...proprietary colonies (Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland, where the heirs of William Perm and Lord Baltimore still control vast tracts of land received from the Crown) delayed. Pennsylvania's James Wilson argued before the Congress: "Before we are prepared to build the new house, why should we pull down the old one, and expose ourselves to all the inclemencies of the season?" But on May 15, at the suggestion of John Adams, the Congress recommended that the colonies form new governments "where no government sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs has been hitherto established." John Adams wrote...
...until colonial authorities pay ? 18,000 for destroyed tea. Later measures include ban on any public meetings without Governor's approval and a requirement that British troops be housed in private dwellings wherever necessary. May 17. Rhode Island issues first call for a colonial Congress, soon echoed by Pennsylvania and New York. Sept 5. First Continental Congress meets in Philadelphia for nearly two months and issues a declaration of ten "rights," including "life, liberty and property," and "a right peaceably to assemble ... and petition the King...
...weight of custom and commerce, the past decade has seen a very slowly growing opposition to slavery on both sides of the Atlantic. Much of it has been stirred by the belief that the rights of man are as universal as Jefferson has said. Thomas Paine of the Pennsylvania Magazine has published an article arguing that the slave, "who is proper owner of his freedom, has a right to reclaim it, however often sold." Adds Dr. Benjamin Rush, a leader of a Philadelphia antislavery movement: "The plant of liberty is of so tender a nature, that it cannot thrive long...
...Pennsylvania, where conservatives dominated the Assembly and resisted all change, some 100 delegates from local Committees of Safety converged on Philadelphia last month and worked out rules for the election of a constitutional convention. That election was held early this week, and the radicals are now in control. But how they will translate that control into a constitution remains anyone's guess...