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the loyalists in the american revolution

by claude halstead van tyne

Author: claude halstead van tyne

Law » United States

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This book gives an insight of the political life and activity of the Loyalists who presented the majority only in some colonies and in the most of them they constituted the minority. The author who worked with primary data, has researched the records of 100000 Americans who had to move to Canada as to an exile.

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...mankind, " and Gilbert s " banditti " were to be "cut off from the benefit of commerce with, or countenance of, any friend of virtue, America, or the human race. " 2 Wherever the Loyalists attempted to organize, they were set upon with the same verbal fury, and the 1 " Journals of each Provincial Congress of Massachusetts, " p. 6. 9. 2 Sabine, " Loyalists, " p. 322. I THE INQUISITION, 75 individual members exposed to the uncurbed rage of the mob. In some parts of America, however, the numbers of the Loyalists gave them license. In Ulster County, New York, they defiantly erected the royal standard upon a mast seventy-five feet high. Inscribed upon it were sentiments testifying their unshaken loyalty and incorruptible fidelity to the best of kings. They emblazoned their attachment to the parent state and the British constitution. They abhorred the republican government, and " detested treasonable associations, seditious meet ings and execrable mobs. " At the hazard of their lives, they...