The cantos of ezra pound [from The Cantos of Ezra Pound (1972)]
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10409 to ignorance, dependence and poverty 10410 religious bigots 10411 the worst of men, colonies 10412 becomes a fashionable study ... and will probably 10413 stare more and more for some time. Ipswich Instructions 10414 right to tax selves, 10415 rather as allies than as subjects 10416 FIRST settlement not a national act 10417 and not at expense of the nation 10418 nor made on land of the Crown 10419 waddled through snow driving my cattle to water 10420 Shutting courts equals abdication of throne 10421 for entering a vessel at Louisburg 10422 and taking away 10423 10 barrels of 10424 rum 10425 Pitt vs/ Grenville, and for the repeal of the act 10426 Parliament takes as Representative and not Legislative 10427 authority 10428 But Thatcher got him indicted for barratry 10429 And he came near to conviction. Goffe grew warm 10430 and said Eaton's character 10431 was as good as any man's at the bar 10432 punch wine bread cheese apples pipes and tobacco 10433 Thursday oated at Martin's 10434 when we saw five boxes of dollars 10435 going in a horse cart to Salem for Boston 10436 FOR England, said to contain about $18,000 10437 lopping and trimming 10438 walnut trees, and for felling of pines and savins 10439 An irregular misshapen pine will darken 10440 the whole scene in some places 10441 case between negro and owner. At same time a craving man 10442 (Hutchinson) [Page 358] 10443 at Dr Tuft's where I found fine wild goose on the spit 10444 and cranberries in the skillet 10445 to the White House in Brattle St. 10446 office lucrative in itself but new statutes 10447 had been passed in Parliament 10448 J. Q. A. born July eleventh 10449 duty on glass incompatible 10450 with my ideas on right, justice and policy 10451 between negro and owner engaged Mr Hawley's attention 10452 100 towns, one week's notice 10453 about 10 o'clock troops began landing under cover of 10454 the cannon 10455 of the ships, without molestation 10456 Oct. 1st. 10457 Population of Boston retrograde during 25 years 10458 that preceded this 10459 was now not above 16,000 10460 During my absence on circuit 10461 as Byles said 'Our grievances red-dressed' 10462 under my windows in the square 10463 drum, fife, and in evening violins, songs 10464 flutes of the serenaders, that is, Sons of Liberty 10465 as well at the extravagance of the populace, 10466 deceptions to which they are liable, 10467 suppression of equity, when thoroughly heated 10468 my drafts will be found in the Boston Gazette for those 10469 years '68, '69 10470 a cargo of wines from Madeira 10471 belonging to Mr Hancock 10472 without paying customs 10473 painful drudgery I had in his cause: 10474 as to this statute my client never consented 10475 Mr Hancock never consented, never voted for it himself 10476 nor for any man to make any such law 10477 whenever
10479 and wander into construction we wander into a wilderness 10480 a darkness wherein arbitrary power 10481 set on throne of brass with a sceptre of iron ... 10482 Suspended, in fact, only after Battle of Lexington 10483 which ended all such prosecutions 10484 Mt Wollanston, seat of our ancestors 10485 from 10486 East chamber every ship sloop schooner and brigantine 10487 Three hundred and fifty were under the Liberty Tree, 10488 a young buttonwood, 10489 and preparing the next day's paper, cooking up paragraphs, 10490 articles, working the political engine 10491 MORNING at Brackett's upon case of a whale ... 10492 that I had imported from London the 10493 only complete set of British Statutes 10494 then in Boston or, I think, in the whole 10495 of the Colonies, and in that work a statute 10496 whose publication they feared, an 10497 express prohibition of empressment 10498 expressly IN America which statute they intended to 10499 get repealed 10500 and did succeed 1769 toward the end of December so doing. 10501 About 9 o'clock in evening, supposed to be signal of fire 10502 men in front of the barracks and baker's boy afore mentioned 10503 Mr Forest known then as the 'Irish infant' 10504 tears streaming over his face 10505 'for that very unfortunate man, Captain Preston 10506 in prison 10507 wants council and can get none, Mr Quincy 10508 will serve if you will 10509 Mr Auchmuty declines unless you will engage' 10510 'But he must be sensible that this wd/ be as important a case 10511 as was ever tried here or in any country.... 10512 not expect me to use art, sophistry, prevarication'
10514 which I accepted 10515 (Re which things was Hutchinson undoubtedly scro- 10516 fulous ego scriptor cantilenae 10517 Ez. P) 10518 Bringing it in all to 10 guineas 10519 for Preston and 8 for the sojers 10520 (But where the devil this brace of Adamses sprung from! 10521 (Oxenbridge Thatcher ... dangers from intemperate 10522 heats 10523 BUT in Connecticut every family has a little manufactury 10524 house 10525 and make for themselves things for which they were used 10526 to run into debt to the merchants.) 10527 Cited Beccaria 10528 He went out and saddled my horse and bridled him 10529 'as a man of liberty, I respect you 10530 'and from here to Cape Cod you won't find ten men amiss' 10531 nihil humanum alienum 10532 This landlord, a high son 10533 and has on his sign: 10534 Sons of Liberty served here ... 10535 When he came away he took view of the comet 10536 ... to roll and cool themselves and feed on white honeysuckle 10537 our horses had got out of compound. 10538 SUBILLAM 10539 Cumis ego occulis meis 10540 sleeping under a window: pray for me, 10541 withered to skin and nerves tu theleis respondebat illa 10542 apothanein; pray for me gentlemen 10543 my prayers used to be answered, She prayed for deliverance 10544 110 years of age, and some say she is over that 10545 Anemonie, at Nantasket; non vi sed saepe legendo 10546 Severn Ayres of Virginia, Mr Bull, Mr Trapier of S. Carolina 10547 Chas Second's time was tax voted in Carolina
10549 climate 10550 When people of Europe have been insidiously deprived 10551 of their liberties 10552 which wd/ render jurors mere ostentation and pageantry 10553 green tea, from Holland I hope, but dont know, 10554 ... recovered at Braintree, pruned by me, grown remarkably 10555 pines better for lopping 10556 STOOD by the people much longer than they wd/ stand 10557 by themselves. 10558 1771 make potash and raise a great number of colts 10559 which they send to the West Indies for rum 10560 Splendours of Hartford and Middletown 10561 just as we got there 10562 Indian pudding pork greens on the table 10563 One party for wealth and power 10564 at expense 10565 of the liberty of their country 10566 wars, carnage, confusion 10567 not interested in their servitude 10568 I am, for all I can see, left quite alone 10569 13th, Thursday 10570 landlady great grand daughter of Governor Endicott 10571 new light, continually canting ... 10572 said Indian preacher: Adam! Adam when you knew 10573 it wd/ make good cider! 10574 Mrs Rops, fine woman 10575 very pretty and very genteel 10576 Tells old stories of witchcraft, paper money and 10577 Governor Belcher's administration 10578 Always convinced that the liberties of the country 10579 had more to fear from one man (Hutchinson) 10580 than from all other men whatsoever 10581 which have always freely and decently uttered 10582 Rich seldom remarkable for modesty, ingenuity or humanity
10584 I said there was no more justice left in Britain than hell 10585 Hutchinson is etc. 10586 Moore's Reports, for the book was borrowed; its owner 10587 a buyer, not a reader of books 10588 for it had been Mr Gridley's 10589 N/Y/ state has done partially 10590 22; Monday (this was 1773) 10591 Hutchinson's letters received 10592 Oliver, Moffat, Paxton and Rome 10593 for 1767, '8, '9 10594 avaricious, ambitious, vindictive 10595 these were the letters that Franklin got hold of 10596 Bone of our bone, educated among us, 10597 serpent and deputy serpent 10598 that Sir John Temple procured them 10599 God knows how or from whom 10600 Gentle rain last night and this morning 10601 Hutchinson sucking up to George IIIrd. 10602 falsehood in Rome's letters quite flagrant 10603 Col. Haworth 10604 attracted no attention until 10605 he discovered his antipathy to a cat 10606 Three cargoes Bohea 10607 were emptied, this is but an attack upon property 10608 I apprehend it was necessary, absolute, indispensable 10609 irregular recourse to original power 10610 IMpeachment by House before Council 10611 said shd/ be glad if constitution cd/ carry on 10612 without recourse to higher powers unwritten ... 10613 Says Gridley: You keep very late hours!
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10615 saying: while Chief Justice of this Court stands 10616 impeached. 10617 Moses Gill has made many justices by lending money. 10618 A statue of H. M. (His Majesty) 10619 very large 10620 on horseback 10621 solid lead gilded with gold 10622 on an high marble pedestal 10623 We then walked up Broadway 10624 magnificent building, cost 20,000 pounds 10625 N.Y. currency 10626 Ship 10627 of 800 tons burden lest leveling spirit of New England 10628 should propagate itself in New York 10629 whole charge of the Province 10630 between 5 and 6 thousand pounds N. York money 10631 For Massachusetts about 12 thousand lawful 10632 as wd/ equal about 16,000 of N. York 10633 Advised him to publish 10634 from Hakluyt the voyage of J. Cabot, 10635 Hudibras 10636 tavern, Princeton, sing as badly as the presbyterians of 10637 N. York 10638 sez congress shd/ raise money and 10639 employ men to write in the newspapers (in England) 10640 Washington would raise one thousand men 10641 at his own expense 10642 and march for release of Boston 10643 not a Virginian 10644 but an American Patrick Henry 10645 tenants in capite, Galloway well aware that my arguments
10647 bound by no laws made by Parliament 10648 since our ancestors came here 10649 Bill of Rights 10650 wished to hear in Congress at large 10651 law of natr/ Brit. constitution 10652 trade of Empire cd/ be under parliament 10653 Mr Rutledge of S. Carolina said: 10654 'Adams, 10655 We must agree upon something.' 10656 Turtle and everything else 10657 a dutchified English prayer 10658 17th of September: 10659 America will support Massachusetts 10660 'that nation 10661 new avows bribery to be part of her system' 10662 Mr Henry, American legislature 10663 After December 1st no molasses 10664 coffee pimento from Domenica 10665 fine bowling green and fine turtle, madeira 10666 Congress nibbling and quibbling as usual 10667 took departure in very great rain from 10668 the happy, the peaceful, the elegant 10669 Philadelphy 10670 2 young ladies to sing us the new liberty song 10671 readiness to be shot / versus / taxes 10672 judgement gives way to fears 1/3rd of humanity 10673 IMbecility of 2nd petition Mr Hancock had ambition 10674 Mr Adams (that is Saml) said nothing, appeared deeply 10675 to consider ... 10676 but seconded my motion in Congress 10677 Mr Washington seated near by the door 10678 scuttled into the book room with modesty 10679 Dickenson [Page 365] 10680 past meridian, avarice growing on him 10681 alum (p. 432) 10682 Suppose yr/ ladyship has been in the twitters 10683 I
10684 oated at the Red Lion 10685 6 sets of works in one building, hemp mill, oil mill, and 10686 a mill to grind bark for tanners, at Bethelehem, a fuller's 10687 mill both for cloth and leather, dye-house, a sharing house 10688 they raise a great deal of madder 10689 Committee to purchase woollen goods for the Army 10690 Sept. 1775, to 5000 L/ sterling 10691 delegates of Pennsylvania produced no account of the powder 10692 100 tons of powder was wanted 10693 Cushing said: I move we take into consideration 10694 a means of keeping up the army in winter. 10695 Ammunition can not be had unless we open out ports 10696 Can't stand war without trade 10697 tobacco to France and Spain. Rutledge said: 10698 Take men from 10699 agriculture and put 'em in factories 10700 Agriculture and manufacturies 10701 can not be lost but trade is precarious. 10702 'Americans are their own carriers now 10703 Imperative to open out ports,' said Mr Zubly 10704 Provisions to Spain for money 10705 and cash sent to England for powder 10706 'We are between hawk and buzzard' said Livingston 10707 pleased that New Jersey raise two battalions 10708 of eight companies each 10709 68 privates, capn, lieutenant, ensign, 4 sergeants 4 corporals 10710 Who to appoint officers for their artillery 10711 Personal friends have not been suitable 10712 rather Washington's word than any convention's 10713 Trade or no trade 10714 powder, appointment of officers
10716 hitherto as if money 10717 was province's not of the continent 10718 John Adams as seen by John Adams, squabbles in congress 10719 to shut or not shut customs houses 10720 'Everything we want for war is powder and shot' 10721 said Mr Zubly 10722 2ndly arms and munitions 10723 3rdly that we must have money 10724 We must keep up the notion that this paper is good 10725 for something (commerciabili?) 10726 Mississippi scheme in France 10727 South Seas in England 10728 were writ for our learning 10729 A navy! Can we have one? without trade? 10730 Can we maintain war without it? 10731 Can we get information? 10732 Spaniards too lazy to come here for goods 10733 To trade with England or foreigners? 10734 If so, who does the carrying? They to us, we to them? 10735 I speak from principle, it has been said we associate 10736 in terrorem 10737 Damn well right, Mr Zubly. 10738 Deane wd/ have traders prohibited importing unnecessary ... 10739 and export of all livestock save horses 10740 Guadaloupe, Martinique will supply powder against tobacco 10741 each colony shd/ carry this trade, not individuals 10742 Chase. Oct 20. 1775 10743 Jay says: more from individual enterprise 10744 than from lukewarmness of assemblies 10745 want french woollens dutch worsteds 10746 german steel 10747 Wythe says: better open our trade altogether 10748 Why shdn't America have a navy? We abound in firs, iron ore, 10749 tar
10751 RESOLVED that two vessels be fitted. 10752 6th April: to remove all restrictions on trade 10753 oblige Britain to keep up a navy 10754 that will cost her twice what she takes from us. 10755 FAECE Romuli non Platonis republica! 10756 'America' (Wythe) will hardly live without trade 10757 Am for giving letters of marque 10758 and for powder, to make treaties with us, Why 10759 call ourselves dutiful subjects? 10760 Wd/ France have listened to Bristol or Liverpool? 10761 Resolved: a committee to draft confederation. 10762 To provide flax, hemp, wool and cotton 10763 in each colony of society for furtherance 10764 of agriculture, arts, manufacturies 10765 and correspondence between these societies 10766 that natural advantages be not neglected 10767 ducks and sail cloth 10768 Is it in the interest of France to stand neuter? 10769 Resentment a duty, a man's person, property, liberty 10770 not safe without it 10771 Hooper of North Carolina said: I wish to see a day 10772 when slaves are not necessary 10773 Lee, Sherman and Gadsden on my side 10774 Rush, Franklin, Bayard and Mifflin putt us wise to 10775 the rumours against us 10776 'adventurers, bankrupt attourneys 10777 from Massachusetts 10778 'dependent on popularity.' So prompt fair and explicit. 10779 'Mr Jefferson, you can write ten times better than I can' 10780 Cut about 1/4th and some of the best of it 10781 I have often wondered that J's first draft has not 10782 been published 10783 suppose the reason is the vehement philippic against 10784 negro slavery'
10786 To contract for importation of gun powder 10787 or if cannot, then for salt peter and sulphur 10788 enough to make 500 tons 10789 40 brass field pieces (6 pounders) 10,000 stand arms 10790 June 12th. J. Adams head of the Board of War 10791 till Nov. eleventh '77 10792 had conversed much with gentlemen 10793 who conduct our cod and whale fisheries 10794 Our seamen if once let loose on the ocean ... 10795 They said: wd/ ruin the character of our seamen etc. 10796 'make 'em mercenary and bent wholly on plundah' 10797 'In any character yr/ Lordship please except 10798 that of a British subject' 10799 (John to Lord Howe in parley) 10800 88 battalions, September, 10801 dash had already formed lucrative connections in Paris 10802 by Mr D (Deane's) recommendations 10803 particularly with Ray de Chaumont 10804 who was shipping stuff to sell on commission 10805 Always have been and still are spies in America (1804) 10806 and I considered the 10807 fisheries. 10808 To Capn Sam Tucker commanding the Boston: 10809 (wind high and seas very rough) 10810 You are to afford him every accommodation in yr/ power 10811 and consult him as to what port you shall endeavour to get to. 10812 W. Vernon 10813 J. Warren 10814 Navy Board, Eastern Department 10815 Sunday 15th came under sail before breakfast 10816 hauled my wind to southward 10817 found they did chase me 10818 Log book, Sl. Tucker 19 Feb 10819 after running 3 hours to westward
10821 she continued to chase us 10822 all day, but I rather gain on her. 10823 Smoke, smell of sea coal, of stagnant and putrid water 10824 increase the qualminess but do not occasion it 10825 in calm with our guns out 10826 Tucker said his orders were to take me to France 10827 and any prizes that might fall in his way 10828 At night the wind increased to a hurrycane 10829 North, East by North, then North West 10830 ane blasterend bubb gan in the foresail ding 10831 rollings 10832 agonies, the sailors' their countenances language be-haviour 10833 no man upon his legs nothing in place chests casks bottles 10834 etcetera 10835 no place no person dry 10836 by lightning 10837 at mainmast and topmast 10838 wounded 23 men 10839 Log Book of Saml Tucker 10840 continually one thing after another giving way 10841 lay by under main sail 10842 down topgallant yards 10843 4. P.M. carried away slings chains and the mizzen 10844 4 A.M. made sail and began to 10845 repair the rigging 10846 Mr Johnnie's behaviour gave satisfaction (i.e. young 10847 J. Q. Adams 10848 inexpressible inconvenience of having so little 10849 space between decks nothing but 10850 dread of pistol to keep men in quarters in action 10851 ship not properly furnished with glasses 10852 which wd/ save their expense in a thousand ways 10853 INattention in navy as in the army 10854 INattention to health of the sailors
10856 1st March: mainmast found sprung in two places 10857 sea, clouds, sea, everything damp, sea, 10858 clouds, fair sun, 9 knots and no noise 10859 What the state of finances, stocks and their army? So that 10860 the ball passed directly over my head. Tucker in old age said 10861 that J. A. was out with a musket like any damn common 10862 marine 10863 'Ordered him; but there he wuz out again 10864 I sez: Me orders, sir, are to git yew to Europe' 10865 Was a letter of marque, shot through our mizzen yard 10866 we upon this turned our broadside which 10867 the instant she saw, she struck. The Martha, worth 80,000 10868 pund sterling 10869 Capn McIntosh much a gentleman 10870 5 weeks after our embarcation 10871 'Mr McIntosh of North Britain 10872 very decided against America in the 10873 contest. His passions enkindle' 10874 Numbers of small birds from the shore 10875 instant they light on a ship 10876 drop asleep from exhaustion 10877 Oleron, famous for sea laws 10878 at least I take it this is the place 10879 along side with hakes, skates and gurnards 10880 river very beautiful on both sides 10881 horses, oxen, great flocks, husbandmen ploughing Yüklə 2,9 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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