The Gaspee's Mission

Narragansett Bay

From the book, When we destroyed the Gaspee: a story of Narragansett Bay in 1772:

"This vessel [Gaspee] of the king's was, in the beginning of March, sent to Narragansett Bay by the commissioners of customs at Boston, to prevent the people from breaking the revenue laws, and to put an end to what those gentlemen of Massachusetts were pleased to say was an illicit trade carried on between Newport and Providence."

Also see Detour June 9, 2013 

Slave Quarters

An excerpt from The Romance of the Civil War, by Albert Bushnell Hart, Elizabeth Stevens:

Also see a post from my Detour Through History blog.

Doctor Ross's Dinner With Lincoln

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Dr. Alexander Milton Ross, who worked with the abolitionist John Brown, also wrote about a dinner he attended with President Lincoln:

"Assembled at the President's table were several prominent gentlemen, to whom Mr. Lincoln introduced me [Dr. Ross] as " a red-hot abolitionist from Canada." One of the guests, a prominent member of Congress (severely injured...) remarked, in a slurring manner, that he wished all the...[blacks]..of the United States would emigrate to Canada, as we Canadians were so fond of them. Mr. Lincoln said : " It would be all the better for the [blacks]...that's certain."

"Yes," I [Dr. Ross] replied, a little warmly, "it would be all the better...for, under our flag...[a black person]...is entitled to, and freely accorded every right and privilege enjoyed by native Canadians."

"Mr. Lincoln, in a jocular way, said to the member of Congress, " If you are not careful, you will bring on a war with Canada. I think we have got a big enough job on hand now." [Source]

Territorial Disputes Before The French-Indian War

From The Plains of Abraham, a book by Brian Connell, about the French-Indian War:

..The British fell back on the Treaty of Utrecht, which had ended Marlborough's wars, and declared that the whole territory occupied by the Iroquois Indians* belonged to the British Crown.  *Also called the People of the Long House

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The result [of the territorial dispute] was deadlock.

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