close the drama with the day. Time's noblest offspring is the last.
To free schools and colleges the periodical press had been added, and newspapers began their office in America as the ministers to curiosity and the guides and organs of opinion.
On the twenty-fourth day of April, in 1704, the Boston News-Letter, the first ever published on the western continent, saw the light in the metropolis of New England.
In 1719, it obtained a rival at Boston, and was imitated at Philadelphia In 1740, the number of newspapers in the English
Chap. XXIII.} colonies on the continent had increased to eleven, of which one appeared in South Carolina, one in Virginia, three in Pennsylvania,—one of them being in German, —one in New York, and the remaining five in Boston.
The sheet at first used was but of the foolscap size; and but one, or even but a half of one, was issued weekly.
The papers sought support rather by modestly telling the news of the day, than by engaging in conflicts; they had
357.
Leisler, Jacob, II. 450; III. 51-54.
His execution, 55.
Reversal of attainder, 59.
Lenni-Lenape, III, 383.
In New Jersey, III. 239.
Leon, Ponce de, discovers Florida, I. 33.
Locke, John, his character, III. 144.
Contrasted with Penn, I. 379.
Logan, James, III. 44, 345.
Louis XIV.
persecutes the Huguenots, I. 175.
His policy, 424.
Treachery, 426.
Absolute, III. 115.
Defends legitimacy, 175.
Recognizes William, 192.
His cabinet, 208.
His old age, 225.
Death, 323.
Louisburg founded, III. 235.
Siege of, 460.
Louisiana claimed by France, III. 168. First colony sails, 169.
Colonized by D'Iberville, 200.
Extent of, 343.
Under Crozart, 347.
The Mississippi company, 351.
Effect of Law's fall, 358.
Its war with the Natchez, 360.
The crown resumes the government, 364.
War with the Chickasas, 366.
Condition in 1740, 368.
Lovewell's fight, III. 338.
Lloyd, Thomas, III. 35.
Ludwell, Philip, III. 15.
Luther, Martin, I. 274,277; II. 459.