Cadwallader Colden Quotes
The delegates from Virginia were the most violent of any—those of Maryland and some of the Carolinians a little less so. These Southern gentlemen exceeded the New England Delegates. They together made a Majority that the others could have very little effect upon.
He was a Loyalist Tory and generally opposed to independence. The passion of the other politicians at the First Continental Congress surprised him greatly.
Cadwallader Colden, 1688–1776, Lieutenant Governor of New York, Describing the First Continental Congress, 1774
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The American Colonies were very diverse culturally, educationally, sociologically and economically as the States are in modern times. Despite the intellectuals of Boston, most of New England at the time of the Revolution was much less sophisticated than New York and Philadelphia.
“Sectionalism” really referred to the North / South animosity which carried over from the Civil War. The South would hardly ever elect a Republican as it was the Republican Lincoln Government that ended slavery and put down their rebellion in the Civil War. There was a language difference that was much greater than modern times and the South was way behind most of the rest of the country in terms of education and standard of living. Every time the Federal Government would try and enforce the Constitution with respect to race, the sectional friction would break out again. The sectional issues carried into the 21st century but had gotten much better.
The debate had come to an impasse over the issue of voting and taxation by state equally or proportional to the population. Witherspoon warned of the consequence of there being no agreement on some form of unity.
The simplistic view that the American colonists were patriots and the British were the colonizers against whom the colonists revolted is not really accurate. The American colonists were polarized into patriots and loyalists. The Loyalist Americans ranged from many of those merchants whose business depended upon England, those whose family were still in England, those whose religion made them loyal to the Church of England, slaves who would be free under British law, Americans who had strong cultural and intellectual ties to England and those Americans who were great believers in monarchy and whose honor required that they fulfill the oath that they had taken to the King of England. Some of the worst atrocities of the American Revolution occurred in the battles of these Americans against each other. See {82105} for more on this point.
This was written more than a year before the “blows” began. It took time to ship the men and supplies to America and the British did not handle that task with much efficiency.
Fox was one of the opposition leaders who were opposed to the heavy handed policies that the British King and Government had used.
Some people read this part of the declaration as saying that if Muslims are in the majority and control the nation, there is no problem with violence. But if the Muslims are in the minority, they will likely be violent. Needless to say, this alarms most Western nations.
This editorial from an Alabama newspaper in 1856 is a wonderful illustration of the animosity held by many in the South towards the North. It also shows the major difference in egalitarianism between the North and the South at that time. The only Southerners who could read were the upper class who were terribly fearful of the effects of upward mobility of whites in a slave free industrial democracy. “Mechanics” at the time referred to all skilled craftsmen.
This claim has very often been true especially in South and Latin America, but in the United States generally it has been a delusion that the populists are in the majority although the general have been neglected and as a result they defy a powerful majority. Good examples of this are the Southern populist movements after the Civil War, the Populist Party, and the Populism of the second decade of the 21st century.
Arguing that Slavery inhibited a society from development ...
Cadwallader Colden was a physician, natural scientist, a lieutenant governor and acting Governor for the Province of New York.
