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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 132 2 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1 4 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: November 19, 1860., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: December 28, 1865., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: December 28, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 5 (search)
rn world. Nearly all the great nations of Europe made various attempts to plant the germ of empire upon American soil. In addition to the representatives at Jamestown and Plymouth of the Anglo-Saxon race, there were the Swedes, French, Spaniards, and those Dutch of New Amsterdam who, in the veracious and charming chronicles of Diedrich Knickerbocker, are embalmed for immortality. The descendants of those last still keep up, as well they may, an annual festival in honor of the days of Peter Stuyvesant, Worter Van Twiller, and the broad-bottomed and many trowsered burghers who laid, with much deliberation and the patient industry of beavers, the foundation of what is now the Empire City. But none of all these European settlers of America have a higher claim to the admiration and affection of their descendants than the founders of the Virginia colony and the class of Englishmen which they chiefly represented. With the royalist principles of the Cavaliers and their undying devotio