. The story of American democracy, political and industrial . lhi!,iiiraph by Elmer L. FooteLexington Green, showing part of a New Englantl village, with typical homes of the better sort. The deeper interest of this picture is explained on page 167, at the end of the chapter-ing about a white spire. Rather it was a stockaded fort, withscattered log cabins, in their stump-dotted clearings spottingthe forest for miles about it. As early as 1660, in The West-Virginia, there was a difference noticeable between ^^ stockadeeastern and western counties. The great planters were notmuch attracted to th
. The story of American democracy, political and industrial . lhi!,iiiraph by Elmer L. FooteLexington Green, showing part of a New Englantl village, with typical homes of the better sort. The deeper interest of this picture is explained on page 167, at the end of the chapter-ing about a white spire. Rather it was a stockaded fort, withscattered log cabins, in their stump-dotted clearings spottingthe forest for miles about it. As early as 1660, in The West-Virginia, there was a difference noticeable between ^^ stockadeeastern and western counties. The great planters were notmuch attracted to the ruder frontier, and so the western dis-tricts were left almost wholly to a democratic society of smallfarmers. So in New England, by 1700, good land was scarcein settled districts, and town free-holders were less and 166 COLONIAL LIFE. less willing to admit cottagers to rights of pasture on thetown commons. Accordingly, the more enterprising anddaring of the landless men began to strike out for themselvesin new settlements far up the rivers, — usually at somepoint where good water power suggested a mill site, andalways where land could be taken almost at will. Longbefore the Revolution, men of New England birth hadbegun a newer and more democratic New England in thepine woods up the Kennebec and Androscoggin in Maine,along the upper course of the Merrimac in New Hampshire, in the Green Mountainsof what was one day tobe Vermont, and inthe Berkshires of Massa-chusetts — as aboutPittsfield on the upperHousatonic. Meanwhile, fartherwest, beyond the firstmountain range, in thelong valleys fromGeorgia to New York,the Scotch-Irish werebuilding the true West(page 135). No riversmade visits and trade possible for them with the older settledarea — divided from it as they were by the bristling BlueRidge; and so here diff
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