y the
merchants of New York, see note on page 356.

"The trade between Great Britain and her colonies on the continent of
America, on an average of three years (from 1766 to 1769), employed
1,078 ships and 28,910 seamen. The value of goods exported from Great
Britain on the same average was L3,370,900; and of goods exported from
the colonies to Great Britain and elsewhere L3,924,606." (Holmes'
Annals, etc., Vol. II., p. 162.)]

[Footnote 312: History of the United States, Vol. VI., Chap, xlii., p.
311.

"To the military its inactivity was humiliating. Soldiers and officers
spoke of the people angrily as rebels. The men were rendered desperate
by the firmness with which the local magistrates put them on trial for
every transgression of the provincial laws. Arrests provoked resistance.
'If they touch you, run them through the bodies,' said a captain of the
29th Regiment to his soldiers, and he was indicted for the
speech."--_Ib._, p. 314.]

[Footnote 313: Quoted from Ramsay's Colonial History, Vol. I., Chap.
iii., pp. 363, 364.]

[Footnote 314: Bancroft's History, Vol. VI., Chap, xlii., pp. 315, 316.

"The general tendency to conciliation prevailed. Since the merchants of
Philadelphia chose to confine their agreement for non-importation to the
repeal of Townshend's Act, the merchants of Boston, for the sake of
union, gave up their more extensive covenant, and reverted to their
first stipulations. The dispute about the Billeting Act had ceased in
New Jersey and Pennsylvania; the Legislature of New York, pleased with
the permission to issue colonial bills of credit, disregarded the appeal
from Macdougall to the betrayed inhabitants of that city and colony, and
sanctioned a compromise by a majority of one. South Carolina was
commercially the most closely connected with England. The annual exports
from Charleston reached in value about two and a quarter millions of
dollars, of which three-fourths went directly or indirectly to England.
But however closely the ties of interest bound Carolina to England, the
people were high-spirited; and, notwithstanding the great inconvenience
to their trade, they persevered in the strict observance of their
(non-importation) association, looking with impatient anxiety for the
desired repeal of the Act complained of."--_Ib._, pp. 317, 318.]

[Footnote 315: History of the United States, Vol. VI., Chap, xlii., p.
318.]

CHAPTER XVI.

EVENTS OF 1770--AN EVENTFUL EPOCH--EXPECTAT