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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 2: (search)
ards in Florida was the result of jealous bigotry. For France had begun to settle the region with a Chap. II.} 1562 colony of Protestants; and Calvinism, which, with the special cooperation of Calvin himself, had, for a short season, occupied the coasts of Brazil and the harbor of 1555 Rio Janeiro, De Thou's Hist. l. XVI. Lery, Hist. Nav. in Bras. An abridgment of the description, but not of the personal narrative, appears in Purchas, IV. 1325—1347. L'Escar bot, N. F. i. 143—214; Southey's Brazil, part l. c. IX. was now to be planted on the borders of Florida. Coligny had long desired to establish a refuge for the Huguenots, and a Protestant French empire, in America. Disappointed in his first effort, by the apostasy and faithlessness of his agent, Villegagnon, he still persevered; moved alike by religious zeal, and by a passion for the honor of France. The expedition which he now planned was intrusted to the 1562 command of John Ribault of Dieppe, a brave man, of marit
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 5: (search)
Christian religion only, but nature herself, cries out against the state of slavery. And Paul III., in two separate briefs, See the brief, in Remesal, Hist. de Chiappa, l. III. c. XVI. XVII. imprecated a 1537. June 10. curse on the Europeans who should enslave Indians, or any other class of men. It even became usual for Spanish vessels, when they sailed on a voyage of discovery, to be attended by a priest, whose benevolent duty it was, to prevent the kidnapping of the aborigines. T. Southey's West Indies, i. 126. The legislation of independent America has been emphatic Walsh's Appeal, 306—342. Belknap's Correspondence with Tucker, i. Mass. Hist. Coll. IV. 190—211. in denouncing the hasty avarice which entailed the anomaly of negro slavery in the midst of liberty. Ximenes, the gifted coadjutor of Ferdinand and Isabella, the stern grand inquisitor, the austere but ambitious Franciscan, saw in advance the danger which it required centuries to reveal, and refused to sanctio
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 8: (search)
offer prayers to the Virgin; she favored the invocation of saints. Burnett, part II b. III. No. 6. Heylin, 124. Neal's Puritans, i. 191, 192. Mackintosh, III. 161. Hume, c. XLV. Hallam, i. 124. She insisted upon the continuance of the celibacy of the clergy, and, during her reign, their marriages took place only by connivance. Neal's Puritans, i. 205, 206. Strype's Parker, 107. For several years, she desired and was able to conciliate the Catholics into a partial conformity. Southey's Book of the Church, i. 257, 258. The Puritans denounced concession to the Papists, even in things indifferent; but during the reign of her sister, Elizabeth had conformed in all things, and she still retained an attachment for many tenets that were deemed the most objectionable. Could she, then, favor the party of rigid reform? Besides the influence of early education, the love of authority would not permit Elizabeth to cherish the new sect among Protestants—a sect which had risen in