. A larger history of the United States of America, to the close of President Jackson's administration . vernor of Virginia. Every-where he was received with aversion, but everywhere this wastempered by the feeling that it might have been worse, for itmight have been Kirke. Yet there was exceeding frankness inthe way the colonists met their would-be tyrant. When he vis-ited Hartford, Connecticut, for instance, he met Dr. Hooker onemorning, and said, I suppose all the good people of Connecti-cut are fasting and praying on my account. The doctor re-plied, Yes; we read, This kind goeth not out bu
. A larger history of the United States of America, to the close of President Jackson's administration . vernor of Virginia. Every-where he was received with aversion, but everywhere this wastempered by the feeling that it might have been worse, for itmight have been Kirke. Yet there was exceeding frankness inthe way the colonists met their would-be tyrant. When he vis-ited Hartford, Connecticut, for instance, he met Dr. Hooker onemorning, and said, I suppose all the good people of Connecti-cut are fasting and praying on my account. The doctor re-plied, Yes; we read, This kind goeth not out but by fastingand prayer. And it required not merely these methods, butsomething more, to eject Sir Edmund at last from the colonies. The three years sway of Sir Edmund Andros accustomedthe minds of the American colonists to a new relation betweenthemselves and England. Even where the old relation was notchanged in form it was changed in feeling. The colonies whichhad seemed most secure in their self-government were liable atany moment to become mere royal provinces. Indeed, they THE BRITISH YOKE. 221. GOVERNOR ANDROS AND THE BOSTON PEOPLE. were officially informed that his Majesty had decided to uniteunder one government all the English territories in America,from Delaware Bay to Nova Scotia, though this was not reallyattempted. Yet charters were taken away almost at random,colonies were divided or united without the consent of their in- 222 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. habitants, and the violation of the right of local government waseverywhere felt. But in various ways, directly or indirectly, thepurposes of Andros were thwarted. When the English revolu-tion of 1688 came, his power fell without a blow, and he foundhimself in the hands of the rebellious men of Boston. The dayhad passed by when English events could be merely ignored,and so every colony proclaimed with joy the accession of Will-iam and Mary. Such men as Jacob Leisler, in New York,Robert Treat, in Connecticut, and
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