. American history:. ied by an industrious, hardy, cheerful, virtuous, and ^lion^ intelligent population, a country where moderate labor earned a liberal reward, where prosperity was connected with freedom, where a general simplicity of manners and equality of condition prevailed. and where the future invited with promises of an enlarging expanse I. These fair of human happiness and virtue. Such was, briefly, the happy con- overchmded. dition of New England, and the domestic prosperity of her people, and, partially so at least, of some of the middle colonies, when the gatherings of that storm
. American history:. ied by an industrious, hardy, cheerful, virtuous, and ^lion^ intelligent population, a country where moderate labor earned a liberal reward, where prosperity was connected with freedom, where a general simplicity of manners and equality of condition prevailed. and where the future invited with promises of an enlarging expanse I. These fair of human happiness and virtue. Such was, briefly, the happy con- overchmded. dition of New England, and the domestic prosperity of her people, and, partially so at least, of some of the middle colonies, when the gatherings of that storm began to appear, which, for a while, FeeHrigswiih shrouded the horizon of their hopes in darkness and gloom; a pe- nowmnumi- ^^^^ P°° which we now look back with feelings of almost terrified plate this awe, at the threatened ruin which impended over our fathers, but ^^^hutory!^^ with thankful gratitude that the Almighty disposer of events did not desert them when the tempest in its fury was upon them. Part UI.] S35. BATTLE OF BUNKERS [oE bbeedb] HILL. (See page 360.) PART III. AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 1763. CHAPTER I. CAUSES WHICH LED TO THE REVOLUTION. 1. Of the several wars in which the American coloniesof France and England were involved, it has been ob-served that all, except the last,-:—called in America theFrench and Indian War, originated in European interests,and quarrels between the parent states; and that thecolonial hostilities were but secondary movements, in-cidentally connected with the weightier affairs of the French and Indian war, however, a different scenewas presented: jealousies and disputes of Americanorigin, fomented by ambitious rivalries that began withthe planting of the French and English colonies, had ex-tended their influence to the Old World, and brought collision nearly all the states of Europe. 2. The great value which France and England at thistime attached to their possessions in America cannot failto be remarked in the pr
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