. The political history of the United States : or, popular sovereignty and citizenship; birth and growth of the colonies; march to independence; constitutional government; presidents and administrations; congresses and political measures; party platforms and principles; rise and fall of parties. Questions of the hour-civil service reform, polygamy, prohibition, surplus revenue, tariff and free trade, arguments for and against, review of tariff acts. owthe Swedish settlement, and thus hemmed the interloping Scan-dinavian in. In a thoughtless hour the Swedish governor at-tacked this fort and dro
. The political history of the United States : or, popular sovereignty and citizenship; birth and growth of the colonies; march to independence; constitutional government; presidents and administrations; congresses and political measures; party platforms and principles; rise and fall of parties. Questions of the hour-civil service reform, polygamy, prohibition, surplus revenue, tariff and free trade, arguments for and against, review of tariff acts. owthe Swedish settlement, and thus hemmed the interloping Scan-dinavian in. In a thoughtless hour the Swedish governor at-tacked this fort and drove the Dutch out. Stuyvesant, theDutch governor, sent around a fleet from Manhattan (NewYork), which swept the Delaware of every Swedish stronghold(1635). But if his New Sweden was thus summarily wiped out,the Swede himself stayed; his impress is still visible in all theland he possessed; it was his Indian policy that Penn adopted;his history is loved and honored ; he was entirely too good a manto drive away, and so became a factor, direct or indirect, inwhatever appertained to after Delaware settlement. NEW JERSEY TAKES EORM—The Dutch were prouderthan ever of their great realm, the restored New there was a sad day ahead. Cromwell would strike Hol-land through her most prosperous colony. His plan of humil-iation was never fully carried out, but it was remembered byCharles II. This monarch gave the country from the Connecti-. GUSTAVUS I. OF SWEDEN. 02 POLITICAL HISTORY. 63 cut to the Delaware to the Duke of York, and then proceededto expel the Dutch from a domain he contemptuously called hisown. Stuyvesant yielded in the face of superior force (September,1664). In October, 1664, the Dutch and Swedes on the Dela-ware capitulated, and for the first time the whole Atlantic coastof the old thirteen States was in possession of England. TheNew Netherlands were speedily dismembered. Two months be-fore their fall, and in anticipation of that event, the Duke ofYork assi
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