APPENDIX. ADDITIONAL NOTES TO VOLUME I. Note 1, to the engraved title page.-The vignette on this page represents Apollo destroying the monstrous serpent, Python, with his arrows.-The story is told by Ovid in the first book of the Metamorphoses. Hunc Deus arcitenens-exhausta pene pharetra, Nole 2, to page 66.-As the gentleman who designed and furnished the engravings, has selected Abijah White, as the hero of this plate, it may perhaps gratify the reader to know something more, respecting him, than is stated in the short note on this page. Previous to the session of the Massachusetts Legislature, in February 1774, a general effort was made by the Royalists, in every town in which their numbers were considerable, to pro cure resolves to be passed, and instructions to be given to the representatives, censuring the proceedings of the Whigs, threatening vengeance against Boston for the destruction of the Teas, and attempting to combine and support a formidable opposition to the measures of the country. Nathaniel Ray Thomas, one of the new Mandamus-Council, by his influence and harangues, at a towh-meeting in Marshfield, obtained the adoption of a set of resolves, distinguished by their virulence, abuse and denunciations. Abijah White, on his arrival in Boston, published them in the newspapers. This was considered as the watchword of the party, and excited much alarm among the leaders of the whigs, who feared the effects of a combination, supported by all the legal authority of the province. Fortunately the Marshfield address and resolves were composed in a most awkward and bombastic style, and were completely open to ridicule. A sarcastic and ironical answer immediately appeared, calculated to expose them to laughter and contempt. It concluded with an humble request, that the town of Marshfield would be graciously pleased to pass the following counter-resolve at their next town-meeting. 66 Voted, that whereas Abijah White Esq. our high and mighty Representative, setting forth on his adventure, armed Cap-a-pie, with a great appurtenance of swords, cutlasses, pistols, Marshfield Resolves, and other warlike ammunition, hath very much dismayed, terrified and confounded the whole town of Boston and the Members of the General Court; and put all those people, who did not agree with him in sentiment, into the most violent fear of their lives; insomuch that it is expected that all, "who were acting, aiding and assisting, or conniving at the destruction of the Teas," and so had incurred our express resentment, are about to fly beyond the sea to avoid the danger of his prosecutions: We the inhabitants of the Town of Marshfield, not wishing the entire depopulation of the Province, do direct that the said Abijah White do surcease from all further proceedings." This novel mode of attack caught the public attention. The humour took; poor Abijah was made the theme of innumerable squibs in the gazettes, and sunk under the burden of general ridicule. Note 3-On the origin of the words, Yankies, Indians, Whigs and Tories.-When the Portuguese under Vasco de Gama made their first discoveries in the East, they found the country at which they arrived, was called by the natives Hindostan or the land of the Hindoos. These names the Europeans softened to the appellations, India and the Indies. The original design of Columbus was only to find a passage to India by sailing to the West; and when he reached the American Islands, he supposed that he had attained his object. The new-discovered lands were called the WestIndies, and the name of Indians was given to all the native inhabitants, not only of those Islands, but of the whole continent of America.. Yankies.-The first settlers of New-England were mostly emigrants from London and its vicinity, and exclusively styled themselves, The English. The Indians, in attempting to utter the word, English, with their broad guttural accent, gave it a sound, which would be nearly represented in this way, Yaunghees; the letter g being pronounced hard and ap proaching to the sound of k joined with a strong aspirate, like the Hebrew Cheth, or the Greek Chi, and the 7 suppressed, as almost impossible to be distinctly heard in that combination. The Dutch settlers on the river Hudson and the adjacent country, during their long contest concerning the right of territory, adopted the name, and applied it in contempt to the inhabitants of New-England. The British of the lower class have since extended it to all the people of the United States. The This seems the most probable origin of the term. pretended Indian tribe of Yankoos does not appear to have ever had an existence: as little can we believe in an etymological derivation of the word from ancient Scythia or Siberia, or that it was ever the name of a horde of savages in any part of the world. Tories and Whigs.-The appellation of Tories was first given to the native Irish, who dwelt, or were driven, beyond the English pale, as it was called, and like the moss-troopers and outlaws on the borders of Scotland, for some centuries carried on a desultory and predatory war, against the British settlements in Dublin and the eastern and southern parts of Ireland. In the civil wars in the time of Charles the first, these clans adhered to the royal party and were finally attacked and subdued by Cromwell. In England this name seems to have been first applied to that part of the army of Charles, who were distinguished by the appellation of Cavaliers. A number of young noblemen and gentlemen of the first families, who adhered to the king, formed themselves into volunteer troops of cavalry. They were not more famous for courage in the field, than notorious for their dissolute manners and intemperate riots. Singing catches and ballads was then the fashionable music of society. To every stanza in the old ballads was annexed a chorus, called the burden or wheel of the song, which usually consisted of a roll of unmeaning sounds, in which the whole company joined with the utmost vociferation. They had a favorite ballad suited to the times, and as much in vogue, as the Ca ira was afterwards in the French revolution. Its chorus was "Sing tory rory, rantum scantum, tory rory row." The word, Tories, soon came into use to denote a set of bacchanalian companions. Collon, in his Virgil Travesty, often calls the Trojans at the court of Dido, Tories, and once, Tory-rories, according to this signification of the terms. The word Whig originally meant a sour, astringent kind of crab-apple. The ancient proverbial comparison, "as sour as a Whig," is still in use among the vulgar. In ridicule of the short, clipped hair and penitential scowl of the puritans, who served in the army of Cromwell, the royalists called them Whigs, prick-ears and round-heads. Whether these facts afford a full explanation of the origin of the terms must be left to the decision of the antiquarians, among whom it has long been a subject of dispute. Certain |