. The story of American democracy, political and industrial . nd, with amazing frankness and emphasis, have ®® ^^^ taught it to their children even in the elementary schools for forty years past. This is why the last two gen-erations of Englishmen have been so much more friendlytoward America than most Americans are toward England — until during the World War they came to adopt JulyFourth quite as an English red-letter day, celebrating it inregular American fashion. Perhaps it is a trifle easier for Englishmen to do this be-cause after all England came out of the Revolutionary War with militar
. The story of American democracy, political and industrial . nd, with amazing frankness and emphasis, have ®® ^^^ taught it to their children even in the elementary schools for forty years past. This is why the last two gen-erations of Englishmen have been so much more friendlytoward America than most Americans are toward England — until during the World War they came to adopt JulyFourth quite as an English red-letter day, celebrating it inregular American fashion. Perhaps it is a trifle easier for Englishmen to do this be-cause after all England came out of the Revolutionary War with military glory little tarnished. She had beenand the fighting all Europe as well as America, and onlywar in [y^ America had the struggle gone against her. Says Theodore Roosevelt: England, hemmed inby the ring of her foes, fronted them with a grand her veins the Berserker blood was up, and she hailed eachnew enemy with grim delight. Single handed, she kept themall at bay. ... So with bloody honor, she ended the mostdisastrous war she had ever PART IV —THE MAKING OF THE SECOND WEST The West is the most American part of America. . What Europeis to Asia, what Eyigland is to the rest of Europe, what America is to Eng-land, — that the western States and Territories are to the eastern States. —James Bryce. CHAPTER XII THE SOUTHWEST: SELF-DEVELOPED The land between the Appalachians and the Missis-sippi had passed from France to England in 1763 (page 137).Some six thousand French settlers remained in the ^j^g ^^g^district, in three nearly equal groups: (1) about from 1763Detroit; (2) near Vincennes; (3) at the Missis- *° ^^sippi towns, Kaskaskia and Cahokia. For several yearsmore these were the only White settlers. The whole districthad been included in old grants to the seaboard as soon as England got control, a Royal Proclamation for-bade English speaking colonists to settle west of the mountains,and instructed colonial governors to make no land-gr
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