A history of the American people . hey hadbeen there, and rejoiced and was quiet when they with-drew. But quiet could not last long. The flame was suresomewhere to burst out again whenever any incidentfor a moment stirred excitement. In North Carolinathere was the next year a sudden blaze of open rebellionagainst the extravagant exactions of William Trvon,the adventurer who was royal governor there; andonly blood extinguished it (1771). In Rhode Island,in June, 1772. his Majestys armed schooner Gaspeewas taken by assault and burned, upon a spit of landwhere she lay aground. It had been her bus
A history of the American people . hey hadbeen there, and rejoiced and was quiet when they with-drew. But quiet could not last long. The flame was suresomewhere to burst out again whenever any incidentfor a moment stirred excitement. In North Carolinathere was the next year a sudden blaze of open rebellionagainst the extravagant exactions of William Trvon,the adventurer who was royal governor there; andonly blood extinguished it (1771). In Rhode Island,in June, 1772. his Majestys armed schooner Gaspeewas taken by assault and burned, upon a spit of landwhere she lay aground. It had been her business towatch against infringements of the navigation lawsand the vexatious acts of trade; her commander hadgrown exceptionally insolent in his work; a sloop whichhe chased had led him on to the spit, where his schoonerstuck fast; and the provincials took advantage of herhelplessness to burn her. No one could be found whowould inform on those who had done the bold thing;the courageous chief-justice of the little province flatly164. AFTER [HE MASSACRE. SAMUEL ADAMS DEMANDING OF GOVERNOR III 1 < THE INSTANT WITHDRAWAL OB BRITISH TROOPS A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE denied the right of the English authorities to orderthe perpetrators to England for trial; and the royalcommission which was appointed to look into the wholeaffair stirred all the colonies once more to a deep ir-ritation. The far-away House of Burgesses in Vir-ginia very promptly spoke its mind again. It invitedthe several colonies to join Virginia in forming com-
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