Note 37 — Ballads of the Revolution.[1]

“The King in council ... having thus invited a conflict with France by instructions necessarily involving war, ... neither troops, nor money, nor ships of war were sent over.”—Bancroft’s U. S., vol. iv., ch. 4, p. 102. “They protected by your arms? They have nobly taken up arms in your defence ... for the defence of a country whose frontier was drenched in blood, while its interior parts yielded all its little savings to your emolument.”—Barré debating on the Stamp Act in the House of Commons.—Idem., vol. v., ch. 11, p. 240.