Home school of American history; embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . ssumed no impoitance. Now was the time for England to display wisdom, justice, and statesman- ^ ;;„,,,inii;in.„ii,,.:,, ,111,1 , i ^jjjp fQwurd licr subjects in America. ji; Had she treated them as she now treats Hi , Canada and Australia and her other col- onies, there never would have been aRevolution. No doubt in time we shouldhave separated fiom her, l)ut the sepa-ration would have been peaceable. But while Great
Home school of American history; embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . ssumed no impoitance. Now was the time for England to display wisdom, justice, and statesman- ^ ;;„,,,inii;in.„ii,,.:,, ,111,1 , i ^jjjp fQwurd licr subjects in America. ji; Had she treated them as she now treats Hi , Canada and Australia and her other col- onies, there never would have been aRevolution. No doubt in time we shouldhave separated fiom her, l)ut the sepa-ration would have been peaceable. But while Great Britain has alwaysl)een immeasurably above Spain in hertreatment of her American subjects, shewas almost as foolish, because shechilled the loyalty that had been provenin too many instances to be mother country was laboring underthe weight of burdensome taxes, and,since the colonies had always been prompt in voting money and supjilies as wellas men to assist England, Parliament thought she saw a way of shouldering alarge part of this burden upon the Americans. Her attempts to do so and theresults therefrom properly belong to the succeeding BIBLE BROUGHT OVEK IN THE MAY-FLOWER, IN PILGRIM HALL,NEW PLYMOUTH. HOME LIFE OF THE COLONISTS. A few facts will assist in understanding the events that follow. Slavery,as has been stated, was legal and existed in all the colonies, but climatic con-ditions caused it to flourish in the South and decline in the North. All thecolonies were Protestant, though religious liberty was permitted everywhere. The laws were amazingly strict and would never be submitted to in thesetimes. To illustrate : a watchman in Hartford rana; a bell everv mornnio: as HOME LIFE OF THE COLONISTS. 87 notice to all adults to rise from their beds. Massachusetts had fourteen andVirginia seventeen offenses that were punishable with death. Some of theminor punishments were unique. If a woman became a common scold, shewas jjlaced near her own door,
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