A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders . ns were, during the same period, subjected to in Holland. We are well weaned,said the pastor, Robinson, after nineyears of exile, from the delicatemilk of our mother countrie, andenured to the difficulties of a strangeand hard land. Poverty in Am-sterdam and Leyden was not, in-deed, quite so irremediable as in theAmerican wilderness, but the les
A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders . ns were, during the same period, subjected to in Holland. We are well weaned,said the pastor, Robinson, after nineyears of exile, from the delicatemilk of our mother countrie, andenured to the difficulties of a strangeand hard land. Poverty in Am-sterdam and Leyden was not, in-deed, quite so irremediable as in theAmerican wilderness, but the lessonit taught did not greatly differ ineither place. As exiles in strangelands with no dependence but upon First Seal of Plymouth Colony. thcmSelvCS, the nCCCSsity of Self-dc- nial and self-reliance for the sake of self-preservation would grow alikein both places; in the circumstances of both was the same stimulus tothe most active use of all the powers of mind and body; isolation,whether from absolute solitude, or from being surrounded by an alienpeople, would produce the same sense of mutual interest, of the neces-sity of mutual help, and of a mutual regard for each others rights,which is the only sure foundation for political 1603.] THE PURITANS UNDER JAMES I. 371 While, however, this preparatory education of events was thus, insome measure, the same for the founders of the two first Englishcolonies on the American coast, the Puritans had this great advan-tage over their countrymen in Virginia, — that a bond of unity indeep-seated religious convictions was strengthened by a brotherhoodof social relations growing out of the peculiar circumstances of theirflight from their native land. The accession of James I. to the throne of England did not bring,as the}^ hoped it would, relief to those devout and devoted believers,who, through the preceding reign, had contended for religious free-dom. From the time of Mary, the one side laboured, says Brad-ford, to have
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