PUBLICATIONS OF THE COLONIAL SOCIETY OF MASSACHUSETTS

    volume lxxvi

    OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY

    Donald R. Friary, President

    Daniel R. Coquillette, Vice President

    Celeste Walker, Vice President

    Robert J. Allison, Vice President

    Leslie A. Morris, Recording Secretary

    Martha J. McNamara, Corresponding Secretary

    William B. Perkins, Treasurer

    COMMITTEE OF PUBLICATIONS

    Pauline R. Maier, Chair

    Robert Anderson

    Donald R. Friary

    Christopher Jedrey

    Conrad Edick Wright

    EDITOR OF PUBLICATIONS

    John W. Tyler

    PORTRAIT OF A PATRIOT

    THE MAJOR POLITICAL AND LEGAL PAPERS OF JOSIAH QUINCY JUNIOR

    PORTRAIT OF A PATRIOT

    The Major Political and Legal Papers of Josiah Quincy Junior

    EDITORS

    DANIEL R. COQUILLETTE

    J. Donald Monan, S.J. University Professor, Boston College Lester Kissel Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School

    NEIL LONGLEY YORK

    Karl G. Maeser Professor of General Education Chair, History Department, Brigham Young University

    volume three

    The Southern Journal (1773)

    boston • 2007

    The Colonial Society of Massachusetts

    Distributed by the University of Virginia Press

    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS FOR THE QUINCY PAPERS

    This series of volumes represents the tireless and invaluable work of our research and administrative assistants: Brandon Bigelow, Kevin Cox, Jane Downing, Natalia Fekula, Michael Hayden, Elizabeth Kamali, Christina Nolan, Nicole Scimone, Brian Sheppard, Susannah Tobin, and Elisa Underwood, with special recognition to the Editorial Assistants to the Boston College Monan Chair, Brendan Farmer and Patricia Tarabelsi, and to Inge Burgess at Harvard. Their intelligence and enthusiasm are visible on every page. Of course, we are deeply in debt to John W. Tyler, Editor of Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts and the Committee of Publications, without whose guidance and support this project would have been impossible. Finally, special thanks are also due to the guardians of the Quincy heritage: the Massachusetts Historical Society with its enormously helpful Librarian, Peter Drummey, and his staff, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Quincy family itself.

    frontispiece:

    “View of Mulberry, House and Street, 1805” by Thomas Coram. Oil on paper. The plantation house, built by Thomas Broughton c. 1711, can be seen in the background. In the foreground are the plantation’s slave quarters. Quincy had grave reservations about the prevalence of slavery in the South, both for moral reasons and for what he saw as its corrupting influence on Southern landowners. Image courtesy of the Gibbes Museum of Art and the Carolina Art Association.

    Copyright © 2007 by the Colonial Society of Massachusetts

    isbn 978-0-9794662-0-5

    Printed from the income of the Sarah Louise Edes Fund

    JOSIAH QUINCY JR.

    Political and Legal Works

    VOLUME THREE

    THE SOUTHERN JOURNAL (1773)

    CO-EDITORS:

    Daniel R. Coquillette

    Neil Longley York

    volume editor:

    Daniel R. Coquillette

    “If we act only for ourselves, to neglect the study of history is not prudent. If we are entrusted with the care of others, it is not just.”

    samuel johnson

    [Rasselas] The Prince of Abissinia, Chapter 30. (London, 1759)

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