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Cape Ann (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
legislation. The progress of population was very slow. The lands in the vicinity were not fertile; and at the end of ten years the colony contained no more than three hundred souls. Few as were their numbers, they had struck deep root, and would have outlived every storm, even if they had been followed by no other colonies in New England. Hardly were they planted in America, when their enterprise began to take a wide range; before Massachusetts was settled, they had acquired rights at Cape Ann, as well as an extensive domain on the Kennebec; and they were the first to possess an English settlement on the banks of the Connecticut. The excellent Robinson died at 1625 Mar. 1. Leyden, before the faction in England would permit his removal to Plymouth; his heart was in America, where his memory will never die. The remainder of his people, and with them his wife and children, emigrated, so soon as means could be provided to defray the costs. To enjoy religious liberty was the known
Portugal (Portugal) (search for this): chapter 12
civil government; and the doctrines of popular liberty, which sheltered their infancy in the wildernesses of the newly-discovered continent, within the short space of two centuries, have infused themselves into the life-blood of every rising state from Labrador to Chili, have erected outposts on the Oregon and in Liberia, and, making a proselyte of enlightened France. have disturbed all the ancient governments of Europe, by awakening the public mind to resistless action, from the shores of Portugal to the palaces of the czars. The trading company of the west of England, in- 1606 corporated in the same patent with Virginia, possessed too narrow resources or too little enterprise for success in establishing colonies. The Spaniards, affecting an exclusive right of navigation in the seas of the new hemisphere, captured and confiscated a vessel Purchas, IV. 1827 and 1832, and ff. Gorges' Briefe Narration, c. IV. Prince's N. E. Chronology, 113,114. u. Mass. Hist. Coll. IX. 3, 4. w
Rochelle (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
able historian of Maine confounds this design of Smith to found a colony with his previous voyage for trade and discovery. were all whom the adventurers destined for the occupation of New England. The attempt was unsuccessful. Smith was forced by extreme tempests to return. Again renewing his enterprise, he suffered from the treachery of his companions, and was, at last, intercepted by French pirates. His ship was taken away; he himself escaped alone, in an open boat, from the harbor of Rochelle. Smith, II. 205—215; and in III. Mass. Hist. Coll.; II. 20, 21. The severest privations in a new settlement would have been less wearisome, than the labors which his enthusiasm now prompted him to undertake. Having published a map and a description of New England, he spent many months Smith, II. 218. Chap VIII.} 1617 in visiting the merchants and gentry of the west of England, to excite their zeal for enterprise in America: he proposed to the cities, mercantile profits, to be real
Maine (Maine, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
Purchas, IV. 1828. Smith, II. 173—175. Belknap, i. 350—354. i. Mass. Hist. Coll. i. 251, 252. Williamson's History of Maine, i. 197—203. Prince, 116, 117, 118, 119. Hubbard's N. E. 36, 37. After a tedious voyage, the adventurers reached the coocean at the same time with the little squadron of the French, who succeeded in building Quebec, the very summer in which Maine was deserted. The fisheries and the fur-trade were not relinquished; vessels were annually employed in traffic with thdo Gorges, and of friends in London, members of the Plymouth company, to establish a colony. Sixteen men Williamson's Maine, i. 212 The learned and very valuable historian of Maine confounds this design of Smith to found a colony with his previoMaine confounds this design of Smith to found a colony with his previous voyage for trade and discovery. were all whom the adventurers destined for the occupation of New England. The attempt was unsuccessful. Smith was forced by extreme tempests to return. Again renewing his enterprise, he suffered from the treache<
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 12
th degree of north latitude, and, in length, from the Atlantic to the Pacific; that is to say, nearly all the inhabited British possessions to the north of the United States, all New England, New York, half of New Jersey, very nearly all Pennsylvania, and the whole of the country to the west of these states, comprising, and, at the opportunities of extensive observation, equal in rank as in rights, and bound by no code, but that of religion or the public will. The eastern coast of the United States abounds in Chap VIII} beautiful and convenient harbors, in majestic bays and rivers. The first Virginia colony, sailing along the shores of North Carolina, wesieged cities, subdued provinces, or overthrown empires. In the eye of reason and of truth, a colony is a better offering than a victory; the citizens of the United States should rather cherish the memory of those who founded a state on the basis of democratic liberty; the fathers of the country; the men who, as they first trod t
Puritan (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
heir natural ally against despotism. A far different spirit actuated the convocation of the clergy. They were very ready to decree against obstinate Puritans excommunication and all its consequences. Bancroft, the successor of Whitgift, required conformity with unrelenting rigor; King James issued a proclamation of equal severity; and it is asserted, perhaps with considerable exaggeration, yet by those who had opportunities of judging rightly, that in the year 1604 alone, three hundred Puritan ministers were silenced, imprisoned or exiled. But 1605. the oppressed were neither intimidated nor weakened; the moderate men, who assented to external ceremonies as to things indifferent, were unwilling to enforce them by merciless cruelty; and they resisted not the square cap and the surplice, but their compulsory imposition. Yet the clergy proceeded with a consistent disregard of the national liberties. The Chap. VIII.} 1605. importation of foreign books was impeded; and a severe
Lancaster (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 12
e your ministers? it was asked of them; and they answered, The power of making them is in the church; ordination required no bishop; and their avowal of their principle threatened to spoil all. To advance the dominions of England King James esteemed a good and honest motion; and fishing was an honest trade, the apostles' own calling; yet he referred the suit to the prelates of Canterbury and London. Even while the negotiations were pending, a royal declaration constrained the Puritans of Lancashire to conform or leave the kingdom; and nothing more could be obtained for the wilds of America than an informal promise of neglect. On this the community relied, being advised not to entangle them-.selves with the bishops. If there should afterwards be a purpose to wrong us,—thus they communed with themselves,— though we had a seal as broad as the house-floor, there would be means enough found Chap. VIII.} 1618. to recall or reverse it. We must rest herein on God's providence. The dis
Quebec (Canada) (search for this): chapter 12
Three years had elapsed since the French had been settled in their huts at Port Royal; and the ships which carried the English from the Kennebec were on the ocean at the same time with the little squadron of the French, who succeeded in building Quebec, the very summer in which Maine was deserted. The fisheries and the fur-trade were not relinquished; vessels were annually employed in traffic with the Indians; and once, Gorges, c. x. Prince, 119. at least, perhaps oftener, a part of a shit. Coll. III. and named the country New England,—a title which Chap. VIII} Prince Charles confirmed. The French could boast, with truth, that New France had been colonized before New England obtained a name; Port Royal was older than Plymouth, Quebec than Boston. Yet the voyage was not free from crime. After Smith had departed for England, Thomas Hunt, the master of the second ship, kidnapped a large party of Indians, anti, sailing for Spain, sold the poor innocents into slavery. It is sin
New England (United States) (search for this): chapter 12
, that New France had been colonized before New England obtained a name; Port Royal was older than adventurers destined for the occupation of New England. The attempt was unsuccessful. Smith was he planting, ruling, ordering and governing New England, in America. The territory conferred on thions to the north of the United States, all New England, New York, half of New Jersey, very nearly es, as time advances. It was the origin of New England; it was the planting of the New England insort from which they had sailed, this oldest New England colony obtained the name of Plymouth. The and desolated almost the whole sea-board of New England. Where the Pilgrims landed, there were thetined to become memorable in the history of New England. After some little negotiation, in which is the oldest act of diplomacy recorded in New England; it was concluded in a day, and, being founthe example of Chap VIII.} 1639 colonizing New England, and formed the mould for the civil and rel[15 more...]
Chile (Chile) (search for this): chapter 12
of republican simplicity, established a party, of which Englishmen became members, and New England the asylum. The enfranchisement of the mind from re- Chap. VIII.} ligious despotism led directly to inquiries into the nature of civil government; and the doctrines of popular liberty, which sheltered their infancy in the wildernesses of the newly-discovered continent, within the short space of two centuries, have infused themselves into the life-blood of every rising state from Labrador to Chili, have erected outposts on the Oregon and in Liberia, and, making a proselyte of enlightened France. have disturbed all the ancient governments of Europe, by awakening the public mind to resistless action, from the shores of Portugal to the palaces of the czars. The trading company of the west of England, in- 1606 corporated in the same patent with Virginia, possessed too narrow resources or too little enterprise for success in establishing colonies. The Spaniards, affecting an exclusiv
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