. The journal of American history. transferred to Canada. The campaigns were too distant andthe dispatches too infrequent greatly to affect the lives of the Virginiaplanters, secure below the great Appalachian wall. There was no longereven the exhilaration of quarreling with the Governor, for the unpopularDinwiddie had sailed to England the year before to the entire content ofthe Virginians, and his successors, Francis Fauquier and Norborne, LordBotetourt, were everything that Virginia gentlemen desired in leaders ofcourtly council. The great debates which preceded the Revolution hadnot arisen
. The journal of American history. transferred to Canada. The campaigns were too distant andthe dispatches too infrequent greatly to affect the lives of the Virginiaplanters, secure below the great Appalachian wall. There was no longereven the exhilaration of quarreling with the Governor, for the unpopularDinwiddie had sailed to England the year before to the entire content ofthe Virginians, and his successors, Francis Fauquier and Norborne, LordBotetourt, were everything that Virginia gentlemen desired in leaders ofcourtly council. The great debates which preceded the Revolution hadnot arisen. The lives of the planters on the Northern Neck were enlivenedchiefly by constant arrivals of vessels from the Indies or England, tidingsof a miscarried cargo, or a runaway slave, or talk at the court-house concern-ing the parsons and dissenters. The dissenters were having a hard time ofit in the colony. The English Act of Religious Toleration, passed underWilliam and Mary, 1689, was never formally grafted on the Virginia Statute. mmww
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