APPENDIX TO CHAPTER XXXVI.
State Legislative and Executive acts against the Loyalists 130
Rhode Island; Connecticut 130
Massachusetts 131
New Hampshire; Virginia; New York 131
New Jersey; Pennsylvania; Delaware 132
Maryland; North Carolina; Georgia 132
South Carolina 134
Remarks on the Confiscation Acts and policy of the several
States mentioned 136
CHAPTER XXXVII.
TREATMENT OF THE LOYALISTS ON THEIR APPLICATIONS FOR
REDRESS AFTER THE REVOLUTION 139-144
Impolicy of such persecuting proceedings on the part of
the States, by an American writer 141
APPENDIX "A" TO CHAPTER XXXVII.
Review of the principal characteristics of the American
Revolution, and remarks on the feelings which should now
be cultivated by both of the former contending parties,
by Mr. J.M. Ludlow 145
APPENDIX "B" TO CHAPTER XXXVII.
Reflections of Lord Mahon on the American contest; apology
for George III.; unhappiness of Americans since the Revolution;
unity of the Anglo-Saxon Race 154
CHAPTER XXXVIII.
TREATMENT OF THE LOYALISTS BY THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT
AND PARLIAMENT AFTER THE REVOLUTION 159-182
PART FIRST.
Proceedings in Parliament; refusal of the States to compensate
the Loyalists, as proposed in the Treaty of Peace, and contrary
to the example and practice of civilized nations 159
In the House of Commons, Mr. Wilberforce, Lord North, Lord
Mulgrave, Secretary Townsend, Mr. Burke, Mr. Sheridan, Mr.
Norton, Sir Peter Burrell, Sir William Bootle, and other
members of Parliament, spoke on the subject 160
In the House of Lords, Lords Walsingham, Townsend, Stormont,
Sackville, Loughborough and Shelburne, also advocated the
claims of the Loyalists 163
Grounds of the responsibility of Parliament to the Loyalists
for compensation
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