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Title: A history of the American people
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924 John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress)
Subjects: United States -- History
Publisher: New York and London, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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d, the people ought to be counselled toprepare for war,—not, indeed, with any purpose ofprovoking hostilities, but in order, if necessary, to re-sist aggression. They declared also for a provincialcongress, to take the place of the legislative council oftheir suspended charter, and resolved to regard theaction of the Congress at Philadelphia as law for thecommon action of the colonies. It gave these resolutions very grave significancethat the Congress at Philadelphia unhesitatingly de-clared, upon their receipt, that the whole continentought to support Massachusetts in her resistance tothe unconstitutional changes in her government, andthat am^ person who should accept office within theprovince under the new order of things ought to beconsidered a public enemy. Moreover, the Suffolktowns did not stand alone. Their temper, it seemed,was the temper of the whole colony. Other townstook action of the same kind; and before the Congressat Philadelphia had adjourned, Massachusetts had 2i)2
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WASHINGTON STOPPING AT AN INN ON HIS WAV TO CAMBRIDGE A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE actually set up a virtually independent provincialcongress. General Gage had summoned the regularassembly of the province to meet at Salem, the newcapital under the parliamentary changes, on the 5thof October, but had withdrawn the summons as hesaw signs of disaffection multiply and his authoritydwindle to a mere shadow outside his military linesat Boston. The members of the assembly convened,nevertheless, and, finding no governor to meet them,resolved themselves into a provincial congress andappointed a committee of safety to act as the provi-sional executive of the colony. The old governmentwas virtually dissolved, a revolutionary governmentsubstituted. The substitution involved every hazard of licenseand disorder. A people schooled and habituated tocivil order and to the daily practice of self-government,as the people of Massachusetts had been, could not,indeed, suffer utter demoralization or los

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