. Bill Nye's history of the United States. oise of the streets soon drove them to nine years this sort of thing went on, untilone day a Dutch fleet anchored near the StatenIsland brewery and in the evening took thetown. However, in the year following, peace was re-stored between England and Holland, and NewAmsterdam became New York again, also subjectto the Tammany rule. Andros was governor for a time, but was a sortof pompous tomtit, with a short breath and a largeaquiline opinion of himself He was one of thearrogant old pie-plants whose growth was fosteredby the beetle-bellied admi
. Bill Nye's history of the United States. oise of the streets soon drove them to nine years this sort of thing went on, untilone day a Dutch fleet anchored near the StatenIsland brewery and in the evening took thetown. However, in the year following, peace was re-stored between England and Holland, and NewAmsterdam became New York again, also subjectto the Tammany rule. Andros was governor for a time, but was a sortof pompous tomtit, with a short breath and a largeaquiline opinion of himself He was one of thearrogant old pie-plants whose growth was fosteredby the beetle-bellied administration at home. Hewent back on board the City of Rome one day,and did not return. New York had a gleam of hope for civil free-dom under the rule of the Duke of York and thecounty Democracy, but when the duke becameJames II. he was just like other people who get araise of salary, and refused to be privately enter-tained by the self-made ancestry of the American. He was proud and arrogant to a degree. He 86 HISTORY OF THE UNITED DUKE OF VORK. forbade legislation, and stopped hispaper. New York was at this timeannexed to the New England Col-ony, and began keeping the Sab-bath so vigorously that the angelshad great difficulty in getting at Nicholson, who was the lieuten-ant tool of iniquity for Andros,fled with him when democracy gottoo hot for them. Captain Leisler,supported by Steve Brodie andeverything south of the Harlem,but bitterly opposed by the aris-tocracy, who were distinguished bytheir ability to use new goods in making theirchildrens clothes, whereas the democracy had tomake vests for the boys from the cast-off trou-sers of their fathers, governed the province untilGovernor Sloughter arrived. Sloughter was another imported Smearkase inofficial life, and arrested Leisler at the requestof an aristocrat who drove a pair of bang-tailhorses up and down Nassau Street on pleasantafternoons and was afterwards collector of theport. Having arrested Leisler for t
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