The story of New England, illustrated, being a narrative of the principal events from the arrival of the Pilgrims in 1620 and of the Puritans in 1624 to the present time . was exemplified so well in the motto on theonly flag that was carried at the battle of Concord bridge,which was Conquer or Die. (This flag, which was the onlyone carried in any of the battles in New England, belongedto the Bedford Minute Men, and is now safely preserved inthe town library at Bedford, Mass. They felt that what thefathers had built it was their duty to protect and maintain, andwith that courage and faith so es
The story of New England, illustrated, being a narrative of the principal events from the arrival of the Pilgrims in 1620 and of the Puritans in 1624 to the present time . was exemplified so well in the motto on theonly flag that was carried at the battle of Concord bridge,which was Conquer or Die. (This flag, which was the onlyone carried in any of the battles in New England, belongedto the Bedford Minute Men, and is now safely preserved inthe town library at Bedford, Mass. They felt that what thefathers had built it was their duty to protect and maintain, andwith that courage and faith so essential, they proved them-selves—invincible. At the State House, in the presence of a vast multitudeand amid great cheering, the Declaration of Independencewas read from the balcony on July i8th, 1776, by ColonelCrafts. Immediately after the close of the war for independenceBoston entered upon a prolonged period of prosperity. Itmet with rapid growth in population and the erection of manyimposing structures, while the vacant land was improvedby the building on it of hundreds of fine residences. The firstbridge over the Charles river was opened for travel; the 113. new State House, on Beacon street, dedicated and occupied;the Boston and the Haymarket theaters, the first to be erectedin New England, opened their doors, and when the eighteenthcentury closed there were about thirty-five hundred dwellingsand a population of about thirty thousand. Shortly after the opening of the nineteenth century thegovernment at Washington caused an embargo to be laid uponcommerce with England, which was greatly deplored by thepeople of New England, and was opposed strenuously by theleading and influential citizens, but without avail, althoughthey had shown the authorities that it was blasting to theinterests of Boston and Massachusetts, as over one-third ofthe shipping in the United States was owned in this when the news of the declaration of war against Englandwas received in 1812, t
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