"Shippen" Quotes from Famous Books
... perhaps, to be well governed, but not as Englishmen, with coequal rights to govern themselves, and that the British aristocracy meant to cover them with its cold shade. And when the Loyalists arraigned the Charter and town-meetings and juries as difficulties in the way of good order, Shippen, in the "Gazette," (January 25, 1769,) said,—"The Province has been, and may be again, quietly and happily governed, while these terrible difficulties have subsisted in their full force. They are, ... — The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 58, August, 1862 • Various |